Literature & Fiction
We Never Told
JOD 9.90
JOD 16.50
Set in an era when unmarried women were shamed into relinquishing their newborns, and the Hollywood lifestyle was at its height, We Never Told is a slice of American history from a female point of view. Those relinquished babies did not disappear. Now they are grown up and searching. Now is the time..
We the Animals
JOD 9.00
Three brothers tear their way through childhood smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out..
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
JOD 14.50
A cat a day keeps the doctor away ... On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional pain - can find it. The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: ..
We, The Survivors
JOD 7.30
JOD 14.50
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises rich..
Weight of Paradise
JOD 4.90
JOD 12.20
The fourth novel by Lebanese novelist Iman Humaydan tells how a suitcase found in an old Beirut building changes one woman’s understanding of her city, her life, and the world at large...
Welcome To The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
JOD 16.50
Yeong-ju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeong-ju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in ..
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
JOD 11.00
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. After quitting her job and divorcing her hu..
Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday
JOD 13.50
A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays. A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House – setting the tone for a collection shot through with V..
Weyward
JOD 16.50
KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing tr..
Whale
JOD 16.50
A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named “Girl of Spring.” A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just a few of the events that set Myeong-k..
What Are You Going Through
JOD 10.00
A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospita..
What is to Be Done?
JOD 31.00
Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific kn..