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Late Victorian Gothic Tales
This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s.
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Too Much Trouble
An original interpretation of the Oliver Twist story reflecting a number of critical and significant contemporary issues.
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Birthday Stories
Stories revolving around the theme of birthdays collected by Murakami.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.
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Adamtine
The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel
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Oranges from Spain
A collection of stories set in Northern Ireland about the trials of growing up in communities where tension, confusion and violence hold sway.
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A Swift Pure Cry
Loosely based on the real life case of the Kerry babies, powerful imagery and lyrical prose is woven throughout this unforgettable, outstanding and ultimately hopeful novel.
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Heaven Eyes
A beautifully written tale about three lonely, frustrated children who live in Whitegates children's home.
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Kamchatka
The narrator of Kamchatka looks back to a pivotal moment in his childhood in Argentina, trying to make sense of the traumatic events that tore his family apart.
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Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear
Fever and Spear is the first volume in a series of 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage.
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Omega the Unknown
The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny.
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Dead to You
Sixteen-year-old Ethan returns to his family nine years after he was abducted from his front garden.
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A Trick of the Dark
A powerful and chilling thriller with elements of the supernatural that will have readers gripped and enthralled from the first sentence to the very last word.
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What the Family Needed
Amsterdam writes with a tenderness and ease of touch. His writing is funny and sweet and sad all at once and What the Family Needed is an endearing tale of a family learning to come together.
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Collected Stories
Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in this 79-strong collection.
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Sunstroke
This is a deftly assembled collection of short stories about the everyday flow of human lives, and unexpected moments that can shift those lives off (or back on) course.
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The Red House
Mark Haddon is a master of stark narrative insight layered with psychological complexity- and his latest offering doesn't disappoint.
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The Angel Stone
When Simeon is taken in by the Cathedral school, we meet the sinister school Warden – Dr Dee, a real necromancer of the time, and the ghost of his collaborator Edward Kelly.
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The Rime of the Modern Mariner
How to update Samuel Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner? By embarking on a mostly pictoral interpretation of the text and making it an allegorical treatise on environmental disaster, obviously.
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Fallen Grace
Grace is desperately poor, struggling to evade the workhouse – she has also had an illegitimate child. And the sinister Unwin family are scheming to blight her life again...
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Kafka in Bronteland and Other Stories
These are stories of love, yearning and displacement, set in the bleak but beautiful landscape of the author's native Yorkshire.
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24 Hours
Seventeen-year-old Ellis gets more than he bargained for when he bumps into Jackie, an old school friend. Within the space of twenty-four hours, his life is turned upside down.
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Don't Know a Good Thing
Set in places as diverse as Alaska and Australia, this collection include tales of murder, loss of innocence, revenge, heroism and hope.
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The Liberators
Ivo discovers that the victim of a brutal murder was a stranger who had earlier begged him to look after a small and mysterious object for him.
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Hey Yeah Right Get a Life
Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, Helen Simpson's third collection of short stories, is about the hectic day-to-day whirlpool of women's lives- women who want to improve their lot, women who yearn to 'get a life' better than their own.
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Loot
Ten startling stories from the Nobel Prize-winning Gordimer, culminating in Karma, in which a disembodied narrator returns to the earthly life five times.
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Sundae Girl
All teenagers are embarrassed by their parents but Jude feels she has more reason than most to cringe when hers are around her in public.
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My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories
In the title story of this collection a boy grows resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention when his father returns from the war.
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Learning to Talk
Stories set in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.
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Tender Morsels
A curious and magical fantasy epic which explores boundaries of all kinds between myth and reality, human and beast, the temporal and spiritual and heaven and hell.
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Corrag
In luminous, lyrical prose, Fletcher vividly evokes the haunting, wild landscape of the Scottish Highlands in this story ultimately concerned with the transformative power of nature, and the importance of kindness and hope.
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The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories 1888-1900
The eleven stories collected here share the theme of love, but they are more than simple love stories.
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The Migration of Ghosts
In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult.
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The Separate Heart and Other Stories
Robson's stories offer up the notion that separateness exists between adults, and between children and the adult world, no matter how well one may seem to know the other. They are also very, very English.
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Frankenstein
This remarkable new version blends the finest contemporary illustration, dramatic storytelling and superb paper engineering.
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The Boy with the Topknot
The book moves along quickly, never boring, always painting an interesting picture of a family dealing with mental illness and a family dealing with the cultural differences of old and new, East and West.
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Leaving Poppy
A modern-day gothic horror story, which mixes the creepy with teenage experiences of love and identity.
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Tell It to a Stranger
Originally published in 1947, this collection of short stories is funny, observant and bleak.
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The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ...
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You Are Not The One
A debut collection of eight stories about today's brand of social outcasts.
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Playing Sardines
A collection of stories about food, eating and the erotic allure of recipes
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Light Transports: A Couple of Stops
The seven stories in this book are short enough to be read on the shortest of train journeys.
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Bridget Jones' Diary
Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Seen through the eyes of Christopher, a mathematical genius and Sherlock Holmes fan, who also has Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism), the novel opens with his discovery of a murdered dog on his neighbour's lawn.
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Building Stories
Books like this only come around rarely, and when they do, they deserve all of your attention.
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Five Quarters of the Orange
As bitter as Chocolat was sweet, Five Quarters of the Orange is a tale of food and fishing, crêpes and collaboration, love and the Loire that dives into the murky waters of guilt and memory.
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Doing It
A much heralded, compelling sex story for teenage boys from this provocative writer






