Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP ...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosi...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosi...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’SmithÂ’s finest....
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’SmithÂ’s finest....
Eileen - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 20...
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BO...
All That Man Is - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Nine men. Each of...
Fever Dream - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIO...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A...
Fever Dream - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIO...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A...
The Unseen - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATION...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017Nobod...
Lincoln in the Bardo - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2...
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER D...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED For The Man Booker Prize 2017
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Sing, Unburied, Sing - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMAÂ’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC Â’A mustÂ’ Margaret AtwoodÂ’StaggeringÂ’ Marlon JamesÂ’A searing, urgent readÂ’ Celeste NgÂ’Disarmingly beautifulÂ’ SpectatorÂ...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
‘A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance’ — Helen Macdonald ‘A great read – incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective’ — Chris Packham ‘(A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book’ — Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
The Leavers - Winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize for Fiction
FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 FINALIST, PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2017 BY OPRAH, NPR, BUZZFEED AND HUFFINGTON POST ’Sensational’ – Guardian ’Utterly immersive’ – Daily Mail ’There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An “essential examination” (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this “sumptuous” (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal “pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire” (Time). “A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Dark Circle - Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction’Extraordinarily affecting’ Alex Preston, Observer ’This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s – that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation – into sharp, bright, heartbreaking focus’ – Christobel Kent Guardian All over Britain life is beginning again now the wa...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ’“A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. “My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man’s brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe”’ In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.Â’ Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at BeattyÂ’s pages, the smarter youÂ’ll get.Â’ Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel IÂ’ve read.Â’ New York Times A biting satire about a young manÂ’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his g...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Â’In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politiciansÂ’ Financial Times Â’Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comfortingÂ’ The Times Â’A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realitiesÂ… The ...
The End of the Day - shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year 2017
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017***‘Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache’ Sunday Times’Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive” Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4’Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful’ Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie.Charlie meets everyone – but only once. Som...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
History of Wolves - Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda ‘Freak’, or ‘Commie’. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect fa...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017 WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNER of the Aspen Words Literary Prize ’Astonishing’ Zadie Smith * ‘Stunning’ Spectator * ‘Extraordinary’ TLS An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is Nadia. She is fiercely i...
Sight - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Â’A stunning debutÂ’ GuardianIn Jessie GreengrassÂ’ superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history...
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. `My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion – books like these are why I love reading’ LEE CHILD When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol ...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 “Astonishing and unsettling … A masterwork” San Francisco Chronicle “A book that demands to be read.” Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to ma...
Frankenstein in Baghdad - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION Â’ExtraordinaryÂ… A devastating but essential read.Â’ Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds Â’Gripping, darkly humorousÂ…profound.Â’ Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment From the rubble-strewn str...
ACCA Approved - F9 Financial Management - Revision Essentials Handbook (for the March and June 2017 Exams)
Derived from content approved and quality assured by ACCA’s examining team and valid for exams from 01 Sept 2016 up to 30 June 2017 – Becker’s Revision Essentials Handbook is an A5 size Handbook designed as a ‘quick-glance’ revision tool. It includes: ACCA syllabus aim and main capabilities, core topics checklist, summary of essential facts and theory, further reading, relevant articles, co...
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
When Philip Marsden; award-winning author of a number of works of travel; fiction; and non-fiction; moved to a remote; creek side farmhouse in Cornwall; UK; it took him on a journey through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tinatagel; Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place reveals that the shape o...