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River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration...
Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat you NEED!

Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat

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The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace.'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need right now. Compelling...
When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story of secrets, family and betrayal . . .

When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story

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At night, in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, carrying warning of visitors at her gate . . . Huda, a secretary at...
The Competent Authority

The Competent Authority

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'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Commitment

Commitment

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A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.When Diane Aziz drives her...
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE'A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book Review'Epic yet intimate' Cosmopolitan'Ferocious and compassionate' Irish TimesFAMILY...
Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat you NEED!

Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat

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The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace.'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need right now. Compelling...
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

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As seen on The TODAY Show!Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars-and the first Black person...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

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A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess DianaDiana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels. She...
The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

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'An immersive, intoxicating summer read with the long-lasting feel of a classic' - Molly Aitken, author of The Island Child 'A potent blend of art, beauty, awakening desire and mortality...
Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Pentland

Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling

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'A warm, witty novel about love and friendship with a fun time-travel twist' -HELLO Magazine Number one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will...
Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Pentland

Time After Time: The must-read novel from Sunday Times bestselling

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'A warm, witty novel about love and friendship with a fun time-travel twist' -HELLO Magazine Number one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will...
London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

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London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge...
The Competent Authority

The Competent Authority

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'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 | LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REIDA queen...
Float Up, Sing Down

Float Up, Sing Down

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From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs...
The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

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'An immersive, intoxicating summer read with the long-lasting feel of a classic' - Molly Aitken, author of The Island Child 'A potent blend of art, beauty, awakening desire and mortality...
Kompromat

Kompromat

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new [...]

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She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's 50th...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope

The Other Half of Augusta Hope

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Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award'A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion' GUARDIAN*JOANNA GLEN'S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW* Augusta Hope has never felt like...
The Game

The Game

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Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose ...A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. 'Masterful' Susan Lewis'Feels different and fresh, Johnny Klein...
Teddy

Teddy

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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER 2024 READING LIST'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS ___________'If you...
Teddy

Teddy

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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey ArcherFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available...
A Secret Garden Affair

A Secret Garden Affair

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Author: Erica JamesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating'...
Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey ArcherFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available...