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In a Town Called Mundomuerto

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Randall Silvis

£19.99 14 May 2008 Paperback Omnidawn Publishing

A lyrical story of bittersweet memories and the enduring power of love, this is the tale of an old man reciting the same story of Lucia Luna he has told hundreds of times to a young boy.

Tales of Tralodren: The Beginning

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Beginning

By Chad Corrie

£12.50 14 May 2008 Paperback Aspirations Media Inc

A novel set in The World of Tralodren. It encompasses the creation of the cosmos, the gods, Tralodren, and everything else in-between. It is useful for those who enjoys a good story, mythology, and/or fantasy in general.

Aspects of the Novel

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By David R. Slavitt

£13.50 14 May 2008 Hardback Catbird Press,U.S.

Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By James Justinian Morier

£23.50 14 May 2008 Paperback IBEX Publishers,U.S.

James Justinian Morier describes the many adventures of a 19th century Persian rogue, none of which involve honest labour.

Domestic Affairs

13 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eileen Goudge

£15.99 13 May 2008 Hardback Vanguard Press

From the bestselling author of "Woman in Red" comes a moving story in which an unlikely twist of fate has the potential to change the lives of three women in ways they never could have imagined.

Dark Glasses

12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tony Edwards

£7.99 12 May 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

Lizzie Beckman craves fame at any price but when her idea for a fake but very public suicide is totally ignored by the press, the 20 year old 'wannabe' reluctantly turns to the publicity consultant who regularly grabs the headlines for her father's fashion business.

Rachel Sarai's Vineyard

10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Deborah Rey

£12.99 10 May 2008 Hardback bluechrome Publishing

The story of Rachel Sarai and "Anne Frank's Diary" have many things in common: the Netherlands, World War Two, the Nazis, the Holocaust, and the wish to survive. Yet, where Anne was forced to passively hide and depended on righteous people to survive, young Rachel Sarai was actively involved as a 'baby-courier' in the work of the Resistance.

Foreigners

10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Leo Walmsley

£6.99 10 May 2008 Paperback Walmsley Society

A Passage Through Time

09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Yvette M. Weiss

£8.99 09 May 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

After being unexpectedly transported two hundred years back in time, Chris meets Sarah, a slave girl on the run from her captors. As she helps her avoid capture, Chris' feelings for Sarah become stronger until fate tears them apart. Will Chris ever be able to find Sarah again? And what future can they have together?

Remembering the Armed Struggle

09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Life in Baader-Meinhof

By Margit Schiller

£8.99 09 May 2008 Paperback Zidane Press

Left for Dead

09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race

By Nick Ward, Sinead O'Brien

£7.99 09 May 2008 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

The Fastnet Race of 1979 was struck by the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing, which mercilessly took the lives of fifteen sailors. Abandoned and left for dead by his crew mates - Nick Ward was almost the sixteenth fatality. This book provides an account of his survival against all the odds.

Manstealing for Fat Girls

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michelle Embree

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Counterpoint,U.S.

This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one's fat, one's a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Set in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s, the bullying, lunch table treachery, and desperate desire to fit in ring true for every generation.

Song for Night

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chris Abani

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Akashic Books,U.S.

This harrowing novel by Nigerian poet and award-winning novelist Abani tells the story of a West African boy soldiers lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon.

Rangers I.C.F

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Davey Carrick, Martin King

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Headhunter

Bully C.F.C.

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life and Crimes of a Chelsea Head-hunter

By Martin King, Gaetano Buglioni

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Headhunter

What Love

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Meyer

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Telegram Books

Stephen Bourjilay, a design engineer for a computer company based in the Arizona desert, is heading for a nervous breakdown. Family life in their gated community is becoming increasingly weird and something has got to give.

ACIDHuman Project

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kenji Siratori

£8.95 08 May 2008 Paperback Creation Books

"I believe that the novel becomes a cultural trigger-but this requires the digital narrative of nerve cells that had the creature intensity-simultaneously we must perceive the instant when the novel is networking as a part of the human body emulator."-"Kenji Siratori

"Acidhuman Project is the follow-up to Siratori's unique cyberpunk classic "Blood Electric, which was acclaimed by David Bowie, among others.

Kenji Siratori is a Japanese author delivering "the reality of symbolic violence."

Street Possession

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tony Lindsay

£5.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Time Warner Trade Publishing

Love is Simple; Forever is Tricky

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cas Sigers

£5.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Urban Soul

A recovered alcoholic, who is picking up the pieces of her life after a terrible drunk-driving accident that left her fianc in a coma, finds herself torn between two men. Original.

The Parson's Widow

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marja-Liisa Vartio

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Dalkey Archive Press,U.S.

After the publication of The Parson's Widow, Vartio's fifth novel, Finnish critics hailed it as a masterpiece, her finest literary achievement. This is the first opportunity for English readers to become acquainted with her unforgettable characters: the eccentric widow of a country parson, her maid Alma, and the other inhabitants of a rural village. Readers will discover the passions that lie beneath the villagers' reserve and formality, and that from time to time break through the polite surface with devastating results.

The two women at the center of this book are marvelous storytellers, though they often argue bitterly about whose version of events is correct. As they reveal, sometimes with boisterous humor, the painful moments of their relationships with the people in their lives, we begin to see how much the world of this remote Finnish village resembles our own.

Teenage Kicks

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Adrian Edmondson, Gareth Edwards, Nigel Smith

£15.99 08 May 2008 Audio Cd BBC Consumer Publishing

Vernon is pissed off his kids aren't in the least grateful. After a divorce Vernon moves into his kids student flat. He's excited about his chance to be young again but his kids are mortified. Vernon is now an ageing Punk Dad who spent the last 2 decades living off his wife. Now, he's back in the 'real' world: free, no ties, no responsibilities.

The Complete Marquis De Sade

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marquis de Sade

£12.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Melrose Publishing Company

A rare two-volume translation of Marquis de Sade's titillating and shocking writings, The Complete Marquis de Sade has now been released by Holloway House Publishing in a single trade edition-size volume to commemorate the first printing's 40th anniversary. Adorned with gripping cover art by Man Ray and translated by renowned scholar Dr. Paul J. Gillette, this dramatic collection includes "Justine," "Juliette," "120 Days of Sodom," "Philosophy In the Bedroom," and many other writings often scattered among "pastiche" versions of de Sade's work. The Complete Marquis de Sade is also free of the author's reprtitions, polemics, and syntactically complex 18th century phrases that plague many unedited versions of his writing. "The best English language edition of de Sade we've seen in many a year," writes Paris Jour of the Holloway House release. "Crisp, bold, and diabolically direct...This is the translation against which all future attempts must be compared."

Prague

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Arthur Phillips

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

Arriving in Hungary's capital to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John Price finds himself drawn into the din of Budapest's nightclubs, a romance with a secretive young diplomat and the company of a man obsessed with nostalgia, all in a bid to forget the questions that arise in a city pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion.

The Green Marine

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Irishman's War in Iraq

By Graham Dale, Neil Fetherstonhaugh

£12.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Hodder Headline Ireland

An incredible account of one man's first hand experience of a conflict that continues to haunt the entire world.

Whatever Gets You Through the Night

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Teri Denine

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Griffin,U.S.

In this powerful debut novel, a young wife's idyllic life slips into a nightmarish underworld from which she must struggle to escape.

Her Little Black Book

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Brenda Jackson

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Griffin,U.S.

In this sexy romp, bestselling author Jackson explores what happens when a lonely woman inherits a little black book.

Reasonable Doubt

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Mark Anthony

£9.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Griffin,U.S.

From the "Essence]" bestselling author of "The Take Down, Lady's Night," and "Streets of New York" comes an exhilarating urban Bonnie and Clyde-style tale.

This Fire Down in My Soul

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By J.D. Mason

£8.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Griffin,U.S.

When Faylene Watkins begins counseling women of her husband's congregation at "Hope Filled Christian Center "church, three women teach her the perils of love, sex and obsession.
Choir girl Elise thinks she's found a good man in Jay, a truck driver who came blowing into her life. He's caught up in romancing Elise, however, when she's ready for happily ever after, Jay realizes that he can't just walk away from his family.
When Renee starts her latest interior decorating project, she thinks her client's husband is hot, and together, they're on fire. Meanwhile his wife wants to be best friends.
Tess's life has long revolved around her unfaithful husband and their two sons. But now the kids have left the nest and she wants to spread her wings. She meets a new man who rocks her world off its steady axis. All the while, counselor Faye is keeping a secret of her own and much deeper than any one of them could ever imagine.

The Lighted Rooms

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Mason

£12.99 08 May 2008 Hardback Orion Publishing Co

By the bestselling author of The Drowning People

The Angel Maker

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stefan Brijs

£10.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

The Coral Thief

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rebecca Stott

£10.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gideon Defoe

£7.99 08 May 2008 Hardback Orion Publishing Co

The Pirates return and this time the Pirate Captain faces his Waterloo.

Monday Mourning

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kathy Reichs

£6.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Arrow Books Ltd

Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour. But Forensic Anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has her doubts. Digging up more bones was not on her agenda. And to make matters worse, her sometime-lover Detective Andrew Ryan disappears just as Tempe is beginning to trust him.

The First Verse

07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Barry McCrea

£9.99 07 May 2008 Paperback Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd

Touching the Horizon

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Woman's Pilgrimage Across Europe to the Castle by the Golden City

By Karin Jarman

£10.95 06 May 2008 Paperback Temple Lodge Publishing

Are You Ready?

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Amanda Hearty

£11.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd

Life has been good for Ali, Molly, Ben and Sarah, things have seemed easy and uncomplicated and they have had the world at their feet. But now as they say goodbye to their twenties and thirty looms they begin to question themselves...Is Ali really ready to get married and become a wife, or is everything moving too fast?

The Host

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephenie Meyer

£11.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Little, Brown Book Group

The bestselling author of the TWILIGHT series comes to adult list with a gripping novel of love and betrayal, set in a future when the fate of humanity is at stake.

The Host

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephenie Meyer

£14.99 06 May 2008 Hardback Little, Brown Book Group

The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling vampire romance series that has developed a cult following among teens

Drop Dead Beautiful

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jackie Collins

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

JACKIE COLLINS' 25TH NOVEL and LUCKY IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!

Bridesmaids

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jane Costello

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

Four weddings. Three disgruntled ex-boyfriends in the congregation. Two wayward 'chicken-fillet' boob enhancers. And one gorgeous man, who has just noticed them escaping over the top of her dress ... Evie finds that it's tough being a bridesmaid.

Girl in the Shadows

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Virginia Andrews

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

Second in her enthralling new 2-part SHADOWS series

Mistaken Identity

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

By Don Van Ryn, Susie Van Ryn, Cerak Whitney, Colleen Newell

£12.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster Ltd

An unprecedented true story of how a fatal road accident united two families in a process of grief and healing. Out of one of the strangest cases of mistaken identity came a celebration of hope and faith and of life's unfathomable gifts and mysteries.

Broken Flower

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Virginia Andrews

£11.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster Ltd

First in her spellbinding new 2-part series

Broken Flower

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Virginia Andrews

£18.99 06 May 2008 Hardback Simon & Schuster Ltd

First in her spellbinding new 2-part series

Blackmoor

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edward Hogan

£11.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster Ltd

A Shakespearian tragedy in the heart of the Derbyshire moors: a young woman whose face doesn't fit; a child left without a mother; a love that lasts long after death.

A Comfort of Cats

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doreen Tovey

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Summersdale Publishers

The Toveys are presented with a problem when the local cattery closes down. Where will they leave Saska and Shebalu when they go on holiday? And so they buy a caravan to take the cats away with them, only to discover that packing up and leaving home is far from a holiday when seal-points are involved.

Are You with Me?

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Foster

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

An utterly compelling tale of a young man's journey through family tragedy and teenage disaffection, a Catcher in the Rye for modern times.

Sometimes a Great Notion

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ken Kesey

£7.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

The Informers

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

By Juan Gabriel Vasquez

£16.99 06 May 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Offers a study of how the past preys upon the present, and a revelation of a wing of the theatre of the Nazi war.

Chocolate for Cherubs

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Babs Horton

£6.99 06 May 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

Enchanted

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charlotte Bingham

£16.99 06 May 2008 Hardback Transworld Publishers Ltd

When Kathleen finds a mare in foal, despite the fact that she and her father can afford to feed her they take her in. Tragically the mare dies, leaving an orphan which they name the Enchanted. But even as he is growing up among Ireland's lush pastures, Kathleen knows that they will, eventually have to sell him, and with him will go her heart.

Purple Hibiscus

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

£16.99 06 May 2008 Audio Cd HarperCollins Publishers

Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer.

The Palace of Strange Girls

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sallie Day

£14.99 06 May 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea.

Netherland

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joseph O'Neill

£14.99 06 May 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.

Haunted

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Scariest Stories from the UK's No. 1 Psychic

By Derek Acorah

£7.99 06 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

For the first time, the UK's number one TV psychic shares some of his most personal stories and terrifying encounters with the spirit world, and what it's really like to be 'possessed'.

Alfred and Emily

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doris May Lessing

£16.99 06 May 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead.

The Art of Love

06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Edmondson

£20.00 06 May 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

The French Riviera is the setting for this absorbing tale of family intrigue, scandal and romance, against the glamorous background of 1930s artists and aristocracy.

Ladies of the Night

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Green, Jean Wilkinson

£9.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Best Books Online

A snapshot of how real district nurses operate in the modern day. It features the experiences of two District Nurses on night duty.

The Credit Draper

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J. David Simons

£9.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Two Ravens Press

Set in the early 20th century, this literary novel is about a Russian refugee who becomes a credit draper in the Highlands of Scotland. An immigrant's story about the search for identity in an alien land, it is also a book about whisky, football and waterproof clothing.

I Never Fancied Him Anyway

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Claudia Carroll

£6.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd

Cassandra never set out to be a psychic, least of all a famous one, with her very own magazine column, plus a glamorous TV slot thrown in for good measure. But, whether she likes it or not, ever since she was a little girl, Cassandra's been able to see things, so vividly and clearly, it can be, well, a bit frightening.

Pandora's Box

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Giselle Green

£6.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

According to legend, when Pandora's box is opened it unleashes dark secrets and terrible consequences !

Away

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Amy Bloom

£6.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Granta Books

Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York she is taken under the wing of Mr Reuben Burstein, the famous Impresario. But then her wily cousin Raisele arrives with some unexpected news about Lillian's young daughter Sophie. Driven by a wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America.

The Reserve

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Russell Banks

£14.99 05 May 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Explores what happens when powerful personalities from opposite ends of the social spectrum begin to break the rules. This book presents a part scandalous love story, and a part murder mystery.

Whatever Makes You Happy

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Sutcliffe

£10.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Matt is a serial dater. Paul is an experienced hand at lying to keep his life choices a secret from his mother. Daniel spends his Saturday nights alone in his flat reading novels, pining for ex-girlfriend. Their mothers decide to launch a co-ordinated attack: they will arrive, without warning, to man-handle them back onto the right path.

Playing with the Grown-ups

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sophie Dahl

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Kitty's mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn't the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl might have to put herself first.

The Opposite House

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Helen Oyeyemi

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. She has one complete memory: a woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a singer, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba'.

Novel About My Wife

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Emily Perkins

£12.99 05 May 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy their first, semi-derelict house in Hackney. Their home appears beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. On the verge of losing the house, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives

From Baghdad, with Love

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jay Kopelman, Melinda Roth

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ltd

During the US-led attack on Fallujah, Iraq, Marines find a tiny puppy left behind when most of the city's population fled before the bombing. Despite military law that forbids the keeping of pets, the Marines de-flea, de-wormand feed him. Thus begins the dramatic rescue attempt of a dog named Lava and Lava's rescue of at least one Marine.

The Dark River

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Twelve Hawks

£6.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ltd

Gabriel Corrigan is a man who will fight to the death to protect little freedoms. The system doesn't like it. It says that you cannot opt out, that you have to participate. And it will do whatever it takes to return Gabriel to the fold - alive or dead.

Mutiny on the "Bounty"

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel of the "Bounty"

By John Boyne

£11.99 05 May 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ltd

In December 23, 1787, Deptford on the south bank of the river Thames, a 15-year-old boy, Billy, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is about to be sent to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission.

Mutiny on the Bounty

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

a Novel of the Bounty

By John Boyne

£12.99 05 May 2008 Hardback Transworld Publishers Ltd

December 23, 1787, Portsmouth: A 14-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission.

The Plague of Doves

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Louise Erdrich

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time.

Tales from the Town of Widows

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By James Canon

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war.

The Gravedigger's Daughter

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joyce Carol Oates

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.

Crow Stone

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jenni Mills

£6.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath.

The Secret of Lost Things

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sheridan Hay

£7.99 05 May 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

A stunning debut from a new Australian writer -- the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.

Living with the Truth

04 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Murdoch

£7.99 04 May 2008 Paperback Fandango Virtual

A Great River

03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Charles Dee Sharp

£14.00 03 May 2008 Hardback Center for American Places,US

The Mississippi River is as much an American symbol as it is a river, carrying hopes and despair of many in its timeless currents. This book employs Mississippi River as an imaginative force in American landscape. It leads readers into reflections on demands of our time and place in history.

Vertigo

03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By WG Sebald

£11.25 03 May 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. Now in paperback, "Vertigo" is the marvelous first novel of W.G. Sebald, the acclaimed European writer.

A Fair Cop

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Bunting

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback The Friday Project Limited

Topped of the Pops

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Adam McQueen

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback The Friday Project Limited

Breaking Spirit Bridge

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ruth Perkinson

£10.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Spinsters Book Co ,U.S.

Shame in the Blood

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Tetsuo Miura

£9.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Counterpoint,U.S.

Queen of Broken Hearts

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cassandra King

£8.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Hyperion

In this story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town with a rich, resonant center, a divorce coach must heal her own broken heart when her marriage ends in tragedy.

Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On the Necessity of Film Canons

By Rosenbaum, Jonathan.

£16.50 02 May 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Explore the idea of - and the need for - a film canon. Though the idea may be unfashionable, particularly within the academy, this book argues that a canon of great and near-great films is vital if we are to understand film as an art. It is suitable for film students, film scholars, and film buffs.

Breath

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tim Winton

£14.99 02 May 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

Bruce Pike, or 'Pikelet', has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night. He longs to be down there on the beach, amidst the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him. It's only when he befriends Loonie, the local wild boy, that he finally defies them.

An Accidental Light

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Diamond

£12.99 02 May 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

On a quiet road just outside London, in the blue half-light of dusk, a car accident will change the lives of two families forever. Jack Philips is a happily married policeman with two small daughters, but the consequences of the accident will force him to reassess everything he loves - and to confront long-buried secrets in his past.

Tan Lines

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel of Sex and Sunburn

By J.J. Salem

£6.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

Liza, Kellyanne and Billie are chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics, reality television and rock music. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall, a surprise pregnancy and a brutal murder.

Revenant

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tristan Hughes

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

In a remote Welsh village by the sea, four friends grow up together. They are Del, Neil and Steph. But one terrible day, the gang is broken up for good. Meeting ten years later in the now stagnating village, Neil, Ricky and Steph revisit their childhood haunts and re-live the memories that have cast a shadow over each of their lives.

Revenant

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tristan Hughes

£20.00 02 May 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

In a remote Welsh village by the sea, four friends grow up together. Plain but charismatic Del is the ringleader, unstoppable, supremely confident in her ability to get her own way. Neil, shy and stuttering, and Ricky, full of rage and loneliness, are misfits at school until Del takes them under her wing.

Nights in the Asylum

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carol Lefevre

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

Stricken with grief and guilt following the death of her daughter, Miri flees the city for the Havana Gardens, a mansion built for her grandmother. On the road she rescues Aziz, an Afghan refugee on the run from detention; then, in the attic of the old house, Miri discovers Suzette Moran and her daughter hiding, and grants them refuge.

Self Help

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edward Docx

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

Alone in her native St Petersburg, Maria Glover sends an urgent summons to London and New York. Her son and daughter arrive too late to see her, but the end of their mother's life marks the beginning of their own story: one of secrets, strangers, and the ultimate retelling of everything they thought they knew.

When We Were Romans

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Matthew Kneale

£7.99 02 May 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan

Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family, watching protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. When the three of them suddenly move to Rome it seems at first to be a great adventure. But Lawrence's excitement at his new surroundings gives way to something far harder to endure.

The Journey Abandoned

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Unfinished Novel

By Lionel Trilling

£15.95 02 May 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Lionel Trilling (1905 - 1975) wanted very much to be a novelist. His short stories appeared in "The Menorah Journal" and "Partisan Review", and he published one novel in 1947, "The Middle of the Journey".

The Chocolate Girls

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Annie Murray

£13.00 02 May 2008 Audio Cd Pan Macmillan

Three different women work at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David. Edie brings him up through a time none of them will forget. When David is old enough to wonder who he really is, he leads Edie through struggle and heartache to a life and love she would never have dreamed of.

Sleepwalker's Introduction to Flight

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sion Scott-Wilson

£14.99 02 May 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

Dreaming of joining the brotherhood of Acapulcan cliff-divers, young Mikey Hough rigs a diving platform in the garden of his suburban Berkshire home. Two years later, when he awakes from his coma, Mikey befriends Roger, an elderly ex-pilot hospitalised when his precious Distinguished Flying Cross was violently stolen from him.

Selected Stories by Mo Yan: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sluglett, Peter Mo, Yan

£15.95 01 May 2008 Paperback Chinese University Press

A collection of four stories that reveals the abuses of an oppressive society and describes those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke.

Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy of Once Were Warriors in Aotearoa, New Zealand

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martens, Emiel

£20.30 01 May 2008 Paperback Aksant Academic Publishers

A Proper Knowledge

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Latiolais, Michelle

£12.61 01 May 2008 Hardback Bellevue Literary Press

"The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."-Ron Carlson, author of "Five Skies"

"A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages."-Elizabeth Tallent, author of "Honey," on "Even Now"

A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain-and the heart.

Michelle Latiolais is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel "Even Now" won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

Cross-border cultural production : economic runaway or globalization?

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Economic Runaway or Globalization?

By Janet Wasko, Mary Erickson

£67.95 01 May 2008 Hardback Cambria Pr, US

Duke, the Dog Priest

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Coutinho, Domcio

£8.21 01 May 2008 Paperback Green Integer

Born in Brazil, novelist Domcio Coutinho immigrated to the United States in 1959. His first novel, Duke, the Dog Priest, comically explores Nova Eboracense, Brazilian New York, with its dazzling mix of priests, brothers, nuns, students, church workers, parishioners, city luminaries, and a dog named Duke who wants to become a priest-making for a wonderfully fantastic novel.

The Marriage of True Minds

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Evans, Stephen

£8.21 01 May 2008 Paperback Unbridled Books

In this unconventional love story, Nick and Lena are divorced, but can't quite separate. They had once run a successful environmental law firm together, until Nick's charmingly erratic behavior got in the way. His actions cause him to run afoul of the law, and Lena must decide whether to rescue him again.

John

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Williams, Niall Bell, Nicholas

£39.56 01 May 2008 Compact Disk Bolinda Publishing

Tangled Roots

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sue Guiney

£12.99 01 May 2008 Hardback bluechrome Publishing

The Days of Judy B

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rose Heiney

£12.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Short Books Ltd

De Niro's Game

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hage Rawi

£7.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Old Street Publishing

Black Bread

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jo Mazelis

£7.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Parthian Books

The Fugitive Three

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Jenkins

£8.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Cinnamon Press

The Glasgow Dragon

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Des Dillon

£7.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Luath Press Ltd

When Christie Devlin goes into business with a triad to take control of the Glasgow drug market, little does he know that his downfall and the destruction of his family is being plotted. As Devlin struggles with his own demons, the real fight is just beginning. Nothing is as simple as good and evil.

Zuzu's Petals

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sue Hepworth

£19.99 01 May 2008 Hardback Snowbooks

Corinne has a new house and a new career. Does she even have the time for a new man? Corinne doesn't think so - she's too busy turning her hobbies into a business. This novel is a story about family, friendship and different kinds of love.

Thompson (With a 'p')

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Philip Packham

£8.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Stamford House Publishing

Holiday company Thompson (with a p!) is struggling to make ends meet on the Greek island of Kos, and reps Nancy and the beautiful Tracy think that their boss Marri is being blackmailed. Meanwhile the present group of holidaymakers (Grunts) are keeping them busy, and Yanni's beachside restaurant is keeping the ouzo flowing.