Name: Glory (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Noviolet Bulawayo
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Glory (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Noviolet Bulawayo

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 ***** FEATURED IN THE TIKTOK BOOK CLUB**'A gloriously rambunctious satire of tyranny, oppression and rebellion, with global relevance' GuardianFrom the Booker-shortlisted author of We Need New Names, Glory is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly.A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite happily . . .And then the colonisers arrived, followed by a bloody War of Liberation. New hope came in the form of a charismatic horse who ruled and ruled and kept on ruling. For forty years he ruled, with the help of his elite band of Chosen Ones. Until one day, as he sat down to his Earl Grey tea and favourite radio programme, in came a new leader, a new regime. And once again the animals were full of hope.Glory tells the story of a country seemingly trapped in a cycle as old as time. At the centre of the tumult is Destiny, a young goat …

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Oh William (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Elizabeth Strout

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think w…

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Small Things Like These (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Claire Keegan

** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'Miraculous.' Herald'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin'Stunning.' Sunday Independent'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas StuartIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

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Treacle Walker (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Alan Garner

Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian'A small miracle' New Statesman'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' TelegraphAn introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them.A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.'All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner's] best work' Observer'Spare and allusive... luminous and understated' Rowan Williams, New Statesman'Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple' Carolyne Larrington, TLSA NEW STATESMAN…

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The Trees (Booker 2022 Shortlist) | Percival Everett

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk.The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body - that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried.In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensure…

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Prophet Song - Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2023 | Paul Lynch

IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.How far will she go to save her family? And what - or who - is she willing to leave behind?Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.'A…

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Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub 300ml

Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub is a smoothing body scrub for all skin types. Made with natural exfoliating agents, Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub softens, exfoliates, moisturizes and retexturizes the skin.

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Epiphone Jared James Nichols Gold Glory Les Paul Custom Signature Model Electric Guitar - Double Gold Aged Gloss - (Includes Gig Bag)

The Epiphone Jared James Nichols "Gold Glory" Les Paul Custom takes the rising star's black-finished "Old Glory" signature guitar and gives it the Goldtop treatment. Like its darker-hued stablemate, the Jared James Nichols "Gold Glory" combines '50s-era Les Paul playability with hot-rodded tone. Loaded with a single Seymour Duncan P-90 pickup, plus master Volume and Tone controls, this solidbody electric represents Nichols's dream guitar. In his own words, “I've been playing the prototype of “Old Glory” on stage since the day I got it. Ever since Joe Perry loaned me a '50s Les Paul Custom with a single pickup, I knew I needed one of my own. This is an incredible guitar." The Jared James Nichols "Gold Glory" can be your incredible dream guitar, too. Pick it up, and you won't put it down until - in true JJN style - you wear your fingers down to threadbare nubs.GENERALNumber of Strings 6Left-/Right-handed Right-handedBODYBody Type SolidbodyBody Shape Jared James Nichols Gold GloryBody Mat…

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Whats The Story Morning Glory | Oasis

Digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition of the classic sophomore album from the Britpop band. The follow-up to Oasis's 1994 debut album DEFINITELY MAYBE, (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? was recorded between May and June 1995 in Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire, with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing. Released on October 2nd 1995, it sold a record-breaking (at the time) 347,000 copies in it's first week. The album spent 10 weeks at #1 in the UK, and is Oasis's most commercially successful, with 22 million copies sold worldwide to date, including four million in the US. Features many of Oasis's biggest hit singles, including 'Don't Look Back in Anger', 'Wonderwall', 'Some Might Say', and 'Roll with It', and won the Best Album at the 1996 Brit Awards, with Oasis also taking Best British Group and Best Video awards.Tracklist:HelloRoll With ItWonderwallDon't Look Back In AngerHey Now!Untitled 1Some Might SayCast No ShadowShe's ElectricMorning GloryUntitledChampagne Supernova

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Glory(2020 Deluxe Edition) (2 Discs) | Britney Spears

Britney Spears' Deluxe version of "Glory" is now available on opaque white vinyl! The 2 LP set includes all 17 tracks originally featured on "Glory," two never before released songs and remixes of "Mood Ring."Tracklist:Disc/Side 1InvitationDo You Wanna Come Over?Make MePrivate ShowMan on the MoonJust Luv MeDisc/Side 2ClumsySlumber PartyJust Like MeLove Me DownHard to Forget YaDisc/Side 3What You NeedBetterChange Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)LiarIf I'm DancingCoupure ÉlectriqueDisc/Side 4Mood RingSwimming in the StarsMatchesMood Ring (By Demand) (Pride Remix)Mood Ring (By Demand) (Wuki Remix)Mood Ring (By Demand) (Ape Drums Remix)

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