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Author: William Gaddis
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1995

The all-seeing swift of our messy times, an unchallenged master of the dialogue-driven narrative ... William Gaddis has captured the paranoia of modern life.

Author: Gordon Forbes
Condition: 8/10
Published Date: 1978

The funniest tennis book ever written.

Author: Graham Lord 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 1997
Pages: 470

"Laugh? I burst the buttons off my bodystocking."
Val Hennessy...Some people will go to a house party. Some to a restaurant. Maybe celebrate with friends or spend it with family. There is a myriad of options for New Years Eve 2000. Stella Barrett, editor of Celebrity magazine is not going to settle for any of these choices. She will host the most spectacular party the world has ever known. She plans to invite 2,000 Top celebrities to join her, and her magazine, to welcome in the year 2000.

Author: Marina Lewycka
Condition: New
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 325
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is set in Peterborough, where 84-year old Ukranian immigrant Nikolai Mayevskyj announces to his daughters that he's in love and will remarry. The object of his affection is Valentina, a 36-year old old Ukranian woman with a visa about to expire and a pair of marvelous breasts.

Author: Gerard Stembridge
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2007

Follows a family into it's darkest corners... an enjoyable read. 

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2005

Jane Flemming, forty six and three years a grandmother has always played by the rules, never hurt anybidy, never lied, never even had a parking ticket.  But she was about to put that right in a very big way...

Author: Tom Sharpe
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1982

Don't expect anything as innocent as the old Whitehall Farces. This one is for real.

Author: Jefferey and Carole Bloom
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2004

Fun to browse through and hilarious to share aloud, the imaginary but oh-so-meaningful words in Blooms Bouquet are a celebration of the endless elasticity and playfulness of the English language.

Author: Tom Sharpe
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1977

Pure farce... often very rude indeed.

Author: Matthew Kneale 
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 462

It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden.  But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.

Author: Winston Groom
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1994
Pages:  239
Type:  Softcover

Laugh, cry, stand up and cheer: Forrest Gump is everyman's story, everyman's dream. A wonderfully warm, savagely barbed, and hilariously funny 'tale told by an idiot'. from the razor - sharp pen of a contemporary wizard.

No one is spared and everyone is included. If you've ever felt lacking, left out, put upon- or just wanted to have a rollicking good time - this book is for you. At 6'6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a dfficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. Go with Forrest to Harvard University, to a Hollywood movie set, on a professional wrestling tour, and into space on the oddest NASA mission ever.

Author: Sue Margolis
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 2001
Pages: 311

Lately, stand-up comic Rachel's life has begun to resemble a not-so-funny comedy routine, the kind where nobody laughs and everybody inches toward the door.  It began when her husband cheated ... with another man. Now she's raising a ten-year-old son who Is fixated on Barbra Streisand and wondering if her dentist boyfriend; who won't stop flossing long enough to make love to her, is having an affair.

Author: Emily Perkins
Condition: 9/10
Published Date: 1998

Leave Before You Go is about Daniel, who escapes athe grinf og his london life to find himself alone, peniless and paranoid on the other side of the world.  And it is about Kate, who lives in Auckland and works as an usherette, drifting in the shadow of her successful TV - Presenter sister and  her HRT - fuelled mother.

Author: Enrique de Hériz

Condition: New
Published Date: 2008

' Here's the truth: when I saw the headline announcing the death of a Spanish woman in an accident in Guatemala, it never occured to me that the dead person might be me...'

Author: John o' farrell
Condition: 10/10
Published Date:2006

Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental arithmetic. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest worry of all: her daughter is definitely not going to fail that crucial secondary school entrance exam. Because Alice has decided to take the test in her place...

A lonely man lives on a hill. He has a strange name - Mr Vogel - and a peculiar habit: when he parks his battered invalid-car at night he leaves the lights on so that people will knock on his door. One day Mr Vogel enters a surreal competition and his life changes forever: he wins a fortune, a croft and a great house. Mr Vogel also wins a pagoda. Our bedraggled hero sets off on a fairytale quest which takes him on an epic walk around Wales; he also embarks on a journey back in time, through his own childhood and through the history and literature of his motherland.

Author: Patricia Glyn
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2004

In early 2003, South African journalist and broadcaster Patricia Glyn spent 59 long days( and even longer nights) with the discovery Expedition at Base Camp, the makeshift town which grows each year on the side of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

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Author: Elizabeth Strout 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 270

Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-worker.

 Author: Malorie Blackman
Condition: 9/10
Published Date: 1993
This Edition: 1995
Pages: 141
Type:  Softcover

Beans called her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with - everything from exploding bisciuts to spy kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, he is suddenly in terrible danger. For the wrong people find out and Gadgetman goes missing - kidnapped!

Can beans track down the kidnappers and find Gadgetman before he is forced to hand over the details of his invention? With the help of her friends, Ann and Louisa, and her special Gadgetman Spy Kit, she is determined to try...

Author: Alasdair Gray 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1992
Pages: 316

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean.

What strange secret made beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter,  irresistible to the poor medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her queen origin in the home of monstrous Godwin Baxter, the genious whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of love and scientific daring storms through Victorian operating theatres, continental Casinos and a Parisian brothel to its happy end in a decent, old- fashioned Scottish marriage. 

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