Narrative theme: Social issues

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The outsider
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A stranger to society, a stranger to his own life, Meursault seems indifferent to everything. In ‘The Outsider’, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to...
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Day one
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*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, presented in a beautiful paperback edition.
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Bewilderment
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His...
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The figurine
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Of all the ancient art that captures the imagination, none is more appealing than the Cycladic figurine. An air of mystery swirls around these statuettes from the Bronze Age and they are highly sou...
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England’s ruler is randomly selected, and this year it’s Auberon Quin, a clerk with an odd sense of humour. Quinn mandates that each boro...
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Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
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‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change

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Blue ruin
£20.00

In the latest novel from award-winning author Hari Kunzru, a failed artist who was big in the nineties grapples with his storied, difficult past and uncertain present, all while convalescing secret...
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Millennium people
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Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes.
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Yellowface
£9.99

The Number One Global Sensation

*Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year*

*Amazon Book of the Year*

*Shortliste...
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How to build a boat
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Jamie O’Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At...
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The bookbinder of Jericho
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When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home. As Peggy moves between her n...
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The secret book club
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‘A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken’ Abby Jimenez, bestselling author of The Friend Zone

‘A charming romcom a...
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The Sparsholt affair
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The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of the Second W...
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Eileen
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s carer in his squalid home and her day jo...
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The scarlet letter
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Hester Prynne’s daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair, but no one knows Pearl’s father’s identity. Hester’s refusal to name him brings condemnation upon her, ...
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Fight club
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Fight Club – a place where young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers can fight each other barehanded – is the invention of Tyler Durden, a dark, anarchic genius who plans...
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
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Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared...
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The winners
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The breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, l...
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All The Lovers In The Night
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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a deeply moving story about a woman searching for meaning in contemporary Tokyo.
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The it girl
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The compulsive new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware.Â
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The change
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‘This was one of those books that just keeps giving ? I cannot explain how much I loved this book ? It’s a thriller, it’s about friendships, it’s about finding your path, i...
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Elizabeth Finch
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Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration – always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their ...
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The Painted Veil
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‘She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference’Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsati...
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Bewilderment
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His...
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