2666

by Robert Bolano

Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666" has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from...

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Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Oskar lives with his mum in a high rise building in the western suburbs of Stockholm. It's the early eighties and he likes listening to Kiss on his Walkman, solving puzzles - including the Rubik's cube - and pasting grisly murder stories from the newspaper...

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Everything Ravaged Everything Burned

by Wells Tower

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after...

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Dexter by Design

by Jeff Lindsay

Being a blood spatter analyst who hates the sight of blood has always made Dexter's work for the Miami PD tough. But it means he's very neat when it comes to his out-of-hours hobby: murder. Of course, the fact Dexter only kills bad people helps too....

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Cautionary Tales for Boys and Girls

by John Hay-McKenzie

An illustrated childrens book with a wicked twist that will make it just as appealing for adults, Cautionary Tales for Boys and Girls is the work of John Hay-Mackenzie. Twelve slightly deranged-looking soft toys have provided the inspiration for watercolour...

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Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency...

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Manfred the Baddie

by John Fardell

Kidnapping inventors, stealing from art museums, conducting acts of piracy on the high seas, making witty asides in speech bubbles, when, oh when will Manfred give up his terrifying ways? Manfred is so much of a baddie he is even nasty to his own henchmen!...

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Why Steve Was Late

by Henry Paker

Ever been late for something important? So has Steve. Luckily, he has a huge number of exceptional excuses for terrible timekeeping which you can borrow. Why not try some of these . . . ?

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The Wonky Donkey

by Craig Smith

I was walking down the road, and I saw a donkey ... hee-haw! And he only had three legs. He was a wonky donkey ... In this very funny, cumulative song, each page tells us something new about the donkey until we end up with a spunky, hanky-panky cranky...

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