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Author: Nick Hornby
Condition: 10/10
Published Date: 2005

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has , in his own words, 'messed his life away'. And on New Years Eve he's going to end it all... But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.

Author:  Bruce Dessau 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date:  1997 
Pages:  112
Rowen Atkinson first came to prominence in the classic comedy series Not the Nine O'Clock News and moved on to one of the all time great TV comedy series, Blackadder. His creation Mr Bean is now one of the world's most recognised and adored characters. 

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

Witty, hard-edged and mouth-watering. A tightly crafted, vibrant book filled with the romance and hardships of family life, violence, music and butter.

Author: Deirdre Purcell
Condition: 8/10
Published Date: 2002

Witty and finely observed , this is a spellbinding tale of a very unusual friendship and of a courageous and a unique woman.

"Lesje is doing something seedy. Or even tacky. Very tacky, to be having an affair with a married man, a married man with two children. Married men with children are proverbially tacky, with their sad stories, their furtive lusts and petty evasions.'

Author: Margaret Atwood
Condition: 7/10
Published Date:  1982 

Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable; Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a young woman at the natural history musuem, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. A sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love...

Author: Adriana Trigiani
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 387
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and home decorating in Rococo, the uproarious tale of a small Italian American town poised for a makeover it never expected.

Author: Louise Harwood

Condition: 7/10

Published Date: 2003

Pages:  309

It will keep you up at night

Hopelessly romatic, thoroughly virginal, Emily knows Mr Right is out there somewhere and she's not sleeping with anyone else while looking for him.

Author: Marian Keys 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 563
A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a one-horse magazine in Dublin? Or Ashling, so normal she's weird?

Author: Steven Carter
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2007

The Teacher:  Wendal Newton,  a man blissfully oblivious to his own lack of talent, doles out pompous instrcutions to his students even as he furtively steals their work.

Author: William Faulkner
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1970

The striking thing about this superlative book is that it is Faulkner's only complete comedy. The farce is as deeply embedded in local life as everything else in Faulkner is. It easily surpasses Somerville and Ross or Surtees: it matches Mark Twain. A wildly comic and brilliantly invented tale.