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Book Cover for: One Day I Shall Astonish the World, Nina Stibbe

One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Nina Stibbe
Galley Beggar PressGalley Beggar Press

Delighted to see ⁦@FictionAtelier⁩ as one of the brilliant ⁦@ninastibbe⁩’s picks in May’s Good Housekeeping. (Everyone should read Nina’s new book too! One Day I Shall Astonish The World, out today with Viking.) https://t.co/l0puXpJvau

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
Galley Beggar PressGalley Beggar Press

Sam is teaching two of these books - Beloved and The God of Small Things - in the current Galley Beggar critical reading class 🥳. Three cheers for Toni Morrison and Arundhati Roy. https://t.co/geYLpZSiuS

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, Wells Tower

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

Wells Tower
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"I love Deborah Eisenberg for her phenomenal wit; Danielle Evans for the seductive ease of her stories; Wells Tower for his observational power... and Jenny Zhang for her absolute filth." Read our interview with GBP Short Story Prize author Naomi Wood: https://t.co/0P7MpABa1z https://t.co/2KvXorgFff

Paperback, 2010

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Overjoyed that our brilliant author Selby Wynn Schwartz and AFTER SAPPHO are on the James Tait Black Prize shortlist: Hooray Selby! Hooray! (Congratulations to all of the other nominees, too: fantastic writers, fantastic publishers, a fantastic prize.) https://t.co/vVSxrOHC2U

Paperback, 2024

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories, Virginia Woolf

Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories

Virginia Woolf
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Fresh through the postbox: a knackered but magical US first edition of Virginia Woolf’s Monday or Tuesday. “After a time, so far as I can remember, we drew around the fire and began to praise men - how strong, how noble, how brilliant, how courageous…” https://t.co/wa41IxdNhC

Paperback, 2018

$11.82$5.91 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Awakening: And Other Stories, Kate Chopin

The Awakening: And Other Stories

Kate Chopin
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There's still time to join the second strand (first one's sold out) in our critical reading course - and read the incredible Kate Chopin novella The Awakening: https://t.co/sOLwrAvcas Just a few more places to fill - all keen readers are welcome!

Paperback, 2008

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories, Deborah Eisenberg

Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories

Deborah Eisenberg
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"I love Deborah Eisenberg for her phenomenal wit; Danielle Evans for the seductive ease of her stories; Wells Tower for his observational power... and Jenny Zhang for her absolute filth." Read our interview with GBP Short Story Prize author Naomi Wood: https://t.co/0P7MpABa1z https://t.co/2KvXorgFff

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson

The Daylight Gate

Jeanette Winterson
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@petipaw So many! Too many! (But just finished Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate.)

Paperback, 2014

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Galley Beggar PressGalley Beggar Press

These are the books we’ll be reading: Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie

Paperback, 1994

$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Perdido Street Station, China Miéville

Perdido Street Station

China Miéville
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"Not since China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station have I read a novel this wild and over­flowing with ideas, where the conventional rules of the fantasy genre do not seem to apply." Ian Mond's wonderful review for Malarkoi in Locus Magazine, now online: https://t.co/DX24BMi3uO

Paperback, 2001

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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