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Alai


Red Poppies
A Tibetan epic - winner of the Mao Dun Prize, China's highest literary award

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771834 | £7.99 | 28 Aug 2003 | Find out more

John Arden


The Stealing Steps
A major new collection of stories by one of our leading writers

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773340 | £7.99 | 01 Jul 2004 | Find out more

Rick Bass


The Hermit's Story
Unforgettably beautiful and astonishing stories by a master of American letters

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216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413772374 | £6.99 | 05 Sep 2002 | Find out more

H. E. Bates


The Feast of July


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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775986 | £7.99 | 08 Jun 2006 | Find out more

The Jacaranda Tree
Reissue of Bates's acclaimed novel of Burma

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775993 | £7.99 | 08 Jun 2006 | Find out more

The Purple Plain
''One of the most exciting and perfectly executed pieces of fiction that I have ever read'' (Spectator)

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775979 | £7.99 | 08 Jun 2006 | Find out more

Christopher Bigsby


Beautiful Dreamer
From an award-winning novelist, the gripping story of a lynch mob on the trail of a couple thrown together in violence and fear

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413769800 | £6.99 | 03 Apr 2003 | Find out more

Bertolt Brecht


Collected Short Stories
The only volume of Brecht's fiction in English

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413528902 | £9.99 | 14 Jun 1999 | Find out more

Elizabeth Cook


Achilles
An unforgettable and deeply moving work of fiction

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771391 | £6.99 | 06 Feb 2002 | Find out more

Mary Costello


Titanic Town
Set in Belfast during the Troubles, this autobiographical first novel by Mary Costello was made into a major film starring Julie Walters and Ciaran Hinds

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772107 | £7.99 | 01 Oct 1998 | Find out more

Noël Coward


Collected Short Stories
"A wonderful bedside companion, Coward's short stories show another facet of the man known primarily as a playwright" (City Limits)

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413599704 | £12.99 | 31 Dec 1984 | Find out more

Pomp and Circumstance: A Novel
To mark the Centenary of Noël Coward's birth, Methuen reissues Coward's only and long out-of-print novel. Included in Methuen's distinctive thirteen-volume Noël Coward Collection

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413563705 | £7.99 | 31 Dec 1983 | Find out more

David Dalton


Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues
"If Charles Dickens and Memphis Minnie had a kid, this is how he would write" Stanley Booth

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413753700 | £7.99 | 06 Jun 2002 | Find out more

Peter Dimock


A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family
"Astonishing ... a remarkable novel" - John Leonard, The Nation

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186x120mm | ISBN: 9780413774149 | £9.99 | 27 May 2004 | Find out more

Claire Dowie


Creating Chaos
The first novel by the cult playwright and performer, published to coincide with a nationwide Arts Council tour of dramatised readings

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216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413774170 | £10.99 | 01 Apr 2004 | Find out more

Mark Dunn


Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
"The most original novel I have ever read - everyone should read it" - Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772954 | £6.99 | 03 Jul 2003 | Find out more

Ibid: A Life
The new novel by the best-selling author of Ella Minnow Pea

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413774293 | £7.99 | 23 Feb 2006 | Find out more

Welcome to Higby
The brilliant second novel by the author of Ella Minnow Pea

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773173 | £6.99 | 09 Mar 2005 | Find out more

Peter Hall


Animal Farm
"Animal Farm is the finest thing George Orwell wrote, and one of the great polemics in our literature. Peter Hall's adaptation of it for the stage could not be better timed" (Evening Standard)

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413600608 | £6.99 | 08 Jan 1986 | Find out more

Denis Johnson


Jesus' Son
'Once Johnson gets his hooks into you - it takes about two sentences - it's...pretty much impossible to stop reading' New York Times Book Review

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772428 | £7.99 | 24 Jun 2004 | Find out more

The Name of the World
Shortlisted for the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize, The Name of the World is a tour de force by one of the most astonishing writers at work today

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771605 | £6.99 | 04 Oct 2001 | Find out more

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
"A classic...One of the finest American novelists writing today" Los Angeles Times Book Review

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772329 | £7.99 | 24 Jun 2004 | Find out more

Benedict Kiely


The Captain With The Whiskers
A seminal novel by one of Ireland's greatest living writers

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773920 | £7.99 | 09 Feb 2005 | Find out more

The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely
The collected stories of one of Ireland's greatest writers

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234x153mm | ISBN: 9780413772053 | £14.99 | 06 Jun 2002 | Find out more

Hugh Leonard


Fillums
A brilliant novel by one of Ireland's best-loved writers

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771674 | £7.99 | 19 May 2005 | Find out more

A Wild People
A sparkling satirical novel by one of Ireland's foremost playwrights

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413759801 | £6.99 | 09 May 2002 | Find out more

Margot Livesey


Banishing Verona
'A joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery' - Alice Sebold

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775566 | £7.99 | 26 Jan 2006 | Find out more

Eva Moves the Furniture
"A beautiful novel about the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter" - Andrea Barrett

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772367 | £6.99 | 16 Mar 2005 | Find out more

Alan Mahar


After the Man Before
The second novel from the accomplished author of Flight Patterns - "a writer of substance, patience and real flair" (Jim Crace) - tells the mysterious history of a terraced house

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771476 | £7.99 | 01 Jul 2004 | Find out more

Bob Marshall-Andrews


A Man Without Guilt
A fast-paced kidnap case resulting in love, murder and suicide

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773197 | £6.99 | 03 Jul 2003 | Find out more

Arthur Miller


Focus
Long out of print, Arthur Miller's first novel now reissued in paperback to coincide with the release of a movie version

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771629 | £7.99 | 10 Jan 2002 | Find out more

I Don't Need You Any More
Stunning collection of nine short stories by America's most acclaimed playwright

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413746603 | £7.99 | 08 Jun 2000 | Find out more

The Misfits
Arthur Miller's novelisation of his classic movie, starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771766 | £6.99 | 06 Jun 2002 | Find out more

Plain Girl: A Life
Paperback reissue of the brilliant novella by America's most acclaimed playwright

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413746702 | £6.99 | 08 Jun 2000 | Find out more

Chris Mullin


A Very British Coup
This classic political thriller, first published in the 1980s and later a huge success as a Channel Four series, is now reissued by popular demand

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9781842751480 | £7.99 | 23 May 2006 | Find out more

Joe Orton


Between Us Girls
Well, I certainly hope this diary never falls into anyone else's hands - wouldn't it be embarrassing for an unknown person to read a girl's most intimate thoughts?

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413749000 | £8.99 | 10 May 2007 | Find out more

Head to Toe
A novel of extraordinary surrealism by the famous playwright

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413414601 | £8.99 | 10 May 2007 | Find out more

Lord Cucumber / The Boy Hairdresser
The two novels in this volume mark the beginning and the end of the seven-year-long writing partnership of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. Lord Cucumber, written in 1954 only a year after they graduated from RADA, is the earlilest surviving product of th

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413749109 | £7.99 | 23 Aug 2001 | Find out more

Charles Osborne


Blithe Spirit: A Novel: *Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne from Noël Coward's play
A brilliant novelisation of Noël Coward's most famous play

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216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413772459 | £15.99 | 26 Aug 2004 | Find out more

Mervyn Peake


Letters From A Lost Uncle
Re-publication of this long out of print classic

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216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413745903 | £12.99 | 27 Sep 2001 | Find out more

Walker Percy


The Moviegoer
A rediscovered American classic from the 1960s

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773272 | £6.99 | 27 Feb 2004 | Find out more

Frances Sherwood


The Book of Splendour
A thrilling historical novel set in 17th century Prague combining an extraordinary love story with a quest for eternal life, and the mysticism of the Jewish occult

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413772879 | £7.99 | 03 Jun 2004 | Find out more

Laura Spinney


The Doctor
A powerful debut novel by a bright new British writer, based on a true story of wartime espionage and detention in the East End of London

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413754806 | £6.99 | 11 Apr 2002 | Find out more

Melanie Rae Thon


Sweet Hearts
Melanie Rae Thon's brilliant new novel is a story of love, justice and redemption set in the haunted landscape of the American West

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413762900 | £6.99 | 13 Sep 2001 | Find out more

John Wessel


Kiss It Goodbye
A thrilling new mystery from the writer hailed as Chicago's Raymond Chandler

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178x111mm | ISBN: 9780413772077 | £6.99 | 18 Jul 2002 | Find out more

Mo Yan


Big Breasts and Wide Hips
A towering work of fiction by the author of Red Sorghum

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771551 | £8.99 | 19 Oct 2006 | Find out more

The Garlic Ballads
An epic tale of love and loyalty, beauty and brutality by China's greatest living writer

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775313 | £7.99 | 13 Apr 2006 | Find out more

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
A superb collection of eight darkly humorous, surreal stories from Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771193 | £6.99 | 17 Apr 2003 | Find out more

Richard Yates


Cold Spring Harbor
Another extraordinary neglected classic by the author of Revolutionary Road

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413774828 | £7.99 | 19 Jan 2005 | Find out more

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
"An unforgettable and long-overdue compilation of work by one of the great neglected American writers of the post-war era' New Statesman

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771261 | £12.00 | 02 Sep 2004 | Find out more

The Easter Parade
"The best modern novel I have read this year" - Julian Barnes, Guardian, Books of the Year 2003

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413773456 | £6.99 | 31 Dec 2003 | Find out more

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
'Read and weep' Kate Atkinson, Guardian

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775573 | £7.99 | 05 Jan 2006 | Find out more

A Good School
'At fifteen, Terry Flynne had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete ...'

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775207 | £7.99 | 07 Sep 2006 | Find out more

Revolutionary Road
"The Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation" - Kurt Vonnegut

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413757104 | £7.99 | 31 Jan 2001 | Find out more

A Special Providence
'The most perceptive author of the 20th Century' The Times

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775191 | £7.99 | 27 Jul 2006 | Find out more

Young Hearts Crying
Another extraordinary neglected classic by the author of Revolutionary Road

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413156600 | £7.99 | 02 Jun 2005 | Find out more

Lisa Zeidner


Layover
"There is so much to praise in Layover that it's hard to know where to start, or to stop. It's diabolically funny, deeply intelligent, and surely the best work of hotel- or motel-room anthropology since Humbert Humbert did his cross-country trek"

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413747006 | £6.99 | 08 Jun 2000 | Find out more





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