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FICTION

The Road Home
Rose Tremain     £7.99
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.  Lev, a middle-aged migrant from Poland, come to London after losing his wife and his job.
 
The Dig
John Preston     £7.99
Summer 1939, an earth-shattering archaeological discovery changes the lives of those involved.
 
The Rain Before It Falls
Jonathan Coe     £7.99
Fragments of family history emerge from audio tapes made by a dying woman.
 
The People on Privilege Hill
Jane Gardam     £7.99
Collection of lively short stories, in the first of which Sir Edward Feathers and his adversaries make their return.
 
Consequences
Penelope Lively     £7.99
Three generations of women united by by their shared experience of love, fate, pain & happiness.   The author will be speaking at the Sevenoaks Literary Celebration (see link below).
 
Run
Ann Patchett     £7.99
From the prize-winning author of Bel Canto.  A politician, beset by scandal, is forced to look at the overlapping truths of his family life.
 
Girl Meets Boy
Ali Smith     £7.99
Where Three Roads Meet
Salley Vickers     £7.99
Retelling of classical myths.  
Salley Vickers will be performing at the Sevenoaks Literary Celebration (see link below).
 
Miss Chopsticks
Xinran & Esther Tyldesley     £7.99
The story of three sisters who leave their lives in a rural community to start a new life in the city.
 
The Importance of Being Kennedy
Laurie Graham     £7.99
Fictional inside story of the Kennedy clan seen through the eyes of their irish employee, Nora.
 
Gifted
Nikita Lalwani     £7.99
A mathematical child is driven by her ambitious father towards Oxbridge success.
 
Winnie & Wolf
A.N. Wilson     £8.99
 

CRIME

The Blood Detective
Dan Waddell     £6.99
 
End Games
Michael Dibdin     £6.99
 
The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch Mystery)
Jason Goodwin     £7.99
 
The One from the Other:  A Bernie Gunther Mystery
Philip Kerr     £7.99
 
The Bethlehem Murders (Omar Yussef Mystery Series)
Matt Rees     £6.99
 
The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke     £7.99
 
Self's Deception:  A Gerhard Self Mystery
Bernard Schlink     £7.99

All prices were correct at the time of going to press.  We cannot guarantee availability or price and apologise if any inconvenience is caused.

NON FICTION

Traversa:  A Solo Walk Across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean
Fran Sandham     £8.99
 
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons:  Travels in Sicily on a Vespa
Matthew Fort     £10.99
 
Singled Out:  How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War
Virginia Nicholson     £8.99
 
A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr     £8.99
 
William Wilberforce:  The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Campaigner
William Hague     £9.99
 
The Stuff of Thought:  Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steve Pinker     £9.99
 
Coral:  A Pessimist in Paradise
Steve Jones     £8.99
 
Dreams from My Father:  A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama     £8.99
 
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
Andrea di Robilant & Stephen Raw     £9.99
 
Wildwood:  A Journey Through Trees
Roger Deakin     £7.99
 
The Fears of Henry IV:  The Life of England's Self-Made King
Ian Mortimer     £8.99
 
The Discovery of France
Graham Robb     £9.99
 

The Sevenoaks Literary Celebration 2008 runs from
26th September - 28th October
Brochures and tickets will be available mid-August

Click on the link Sevenoaks Literary Celebration

Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks,
Kent TN13 1XJ 
Tel: 01732 452055              Fax: 01732 450933