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Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Max Porter (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his ownturntables, and for all the red...
Patience Is a Subtle Thief: A Novel

Patience Is a Subtle Thief: A Novel

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Author: Abi Ishola-Ayodeji Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Hope and circumstance define a young woman's life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria,...
The Essex Serpent: Sunday Times bestselling novel, also a major Apple TV series

The Essex Serpent: Sunday Times bestselling novel, also a major Apple TV series

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she...
Afterparties

Afterparties

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Author: Anthony Veasna So Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'So's stories reimagine and reanimate the Central Valley, in the way that the polyglot stories in Bryan Washington's collection Lot...
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Total

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Author: Rebecca Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A middle-aged novelist devoid of inspiration alights on material in the form of an obsessive pet-shop worker from Cincinnati. A pregnant...
The Cat's Table

The Cat's Table

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Author: Rebecca Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A middle-aged novelist devoid of inspiration alights on material in the form of an obsessive pet-shop worker from Cincinnati. A pregnant...
They are Trying to Break Your Heart

They are Trying to Break Your Heart

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Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition

Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's...
Patience Is a Subtle Thief: A Novel

Patience Is a Subtle Thief: A Novel

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Author: Abi Ishola-Ayodeji Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Hope and circumstance define a young woman's life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria,...
You Were Always Mine

You Were Always Mine

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Author: Christine Pride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Sits squarely at the tender intersection of race, class, and ethics - wrapped in beautiful prose and a killer plot that...
At Bertram's Hotel (Marple, Book 11)

At Bertram's Hotel (Marple, Book 11)

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Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A grand old London hotel A series of alarming coincidences Danger lurking down every corridor Impeccable service. Luxurious rooms. Eccentric guests....
Ginger and Me

Ginger and Me

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Author: Elissa Soave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Funny, touching and wise, I loved it' Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely, misunderstood...
The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

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Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century - reissued in a stunning hardback design to celebrate the Salinger...
The Small House at Allington

The Small House at Allington

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Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic...
Kipps

Kipps

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Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden

The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Spookily topical' - Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENLondon is under threat. It has become a haven for...
Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon

Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and...
The Power of the Dog: SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

The Power of the Dog: SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

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Author: Thomas Savage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A powerfully tense tale of domestic tyranny set against the wild open spaces of the American West - another...
The Makioka Sisters: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

The Makioka Sisters: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

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Author: Junichiro Tanizaki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breath new life back into a strange,...
The Talented Mr Ripley

The Talented Mr Ripley

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Author: Patricia Highsmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark...
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

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Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the...
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

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Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'...
The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review Dostoevsky's...
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...
The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1472 'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.'The Guardian Imprisoned for...
The Iliad

The Iliad

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...
Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and...
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Notes From Underground

Notes From Underground

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

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Author: Herman Melville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into...
Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Pip doesn't expect much from life . . . His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing...
Orlando: Popular Penguins

Orlando: Popular Penguins

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 274 Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream...
Sketches by Boz

Sketches by Boz

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and...
She

She

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Author: H. Rider Haggard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on his fascination with African lore and his love of adventure to create a seminal work of...
The Woman in White

The Woman in White

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Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...
Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

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Author: Jules Verne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his...
Little Women

Little Women

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Author: Louisa May Alcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England. The...
Emma

Emma

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either...
Kokoro

Kokoro

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Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...
The Rainbow

The Rainbow

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The novel (1915) chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more...
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Author: John Tenniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Author: Jules Verne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure...