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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.';So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use,' says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, Les Miserables is French history recounted through the personal stories of its main characters. The tale offers philosophical insight on the good deeds that can happen even amidst ignorance and poverty. This handsome volume is a beautiful addition to any classic literature library.

From Najwa Zebian-celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet, speaker, and educator-comes a highly personal and moving second collection.

In his first foray into fiction the funny man with the plastic bag on his head reveals an astounding literary talent. The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Unlike anything else you're going to read this year.

Mia Corvere is only ten years old when she is given her first lesson in death. Destined to destroy empires, the child raised in shadows made a promise on the day she lost everything: to avenge herself on those that shattered her world.

The second book in a blockbuster epic fantasy trilogy, from an author set to become a major force in the genre

The first collection of Ken Liu's multi-award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories.

The international bestseller - a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe.

Before the Malazan Empire, there was a time that set the stage for all those tales yet to be told .

The highly anticipated third volume of the haunting, disturbing and evocative Southern Reach trilogy.

It's all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with t'flat cap and t'sliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds - including a few particularly keen young men armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.

It's not until you're broken that you find your sharpest edge

Fern loves a little pig called Wilbur. Charlotte A Cavatica, a beautiful grey spider, saves Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat pigs, by a wonderfully clever plan - a plan so original that no one else could possibly have thought of it.

From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist and Stalker comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna

The phenomenal international bestseller and the first volume in the enthralling All SOULS trilogy, preceding SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE. SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES.

A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.

The powerful bestselling novel of how a grief-stricken man's encounter with God changes his life forever.

From the hilarious, massively successful My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast: the ultimate, annotated edition of Belinda Blinked

Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal;

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg ... Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.Carpe Jugulum is Terry Pratchett's twenty-third Discworld novel - but the first to star vampires.

From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer's day in 1935, McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart, even as the master novelist's provocative twists of form dazzle the senses.

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

SAM VIMES IS A MAN ON THE RUN. YESTERDAY HE WAS A DUKE, A CHIEF OF POLICE AND THE AMBASSADOR TO THE MYSERIOUS, FAT-RICH COUNTRY OF UBERWALD. The Fifth Elephant is Terry Pratchett's latest instalment in the Discworld cycle, this time starring dwarfs, diplomacy, intrigue and big lumps of fat.

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest.

Contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.