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Watching Women & Girls

Watching Women & Girls

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Author: Danielle Pender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Chosen as one of the 'best new book releases' by COSMOPOLITAN A 'best summer read' by ELLE MAGAZINE When you look...
Freefall

Freefall

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Author: Jessica Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019: Entertainment Weekly USA Today Parade Cosmopolitan New York Post PopSugar Goodreads "Jessica Barry's...
The List

The List

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Author: Yomi Adegoke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel 'A page-turning read about the dark side of social media' STYLIST 'The Book Of...
Stalingrad

Stalingrad

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Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 Stalingrad is the prequel to Life and Fate, one of the twentieth century's greatest novels. This is its first...
All My Cats

All My Cats

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Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A gem of a book about the aggravations and great joys of cats from a literary master In the...
Beloved

Beloved

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Author: Toni Morrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic...
Animal Farm

Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage...
Mrs S

Mrs S

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Author: K Patrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists 'Oozes with erotic tension from the start'...
The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape...
Bluebeard

Bluebeard

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian's fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the...
Prime Suspect 2:  A Face in the Crowd

Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

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Author: Lynda La Plante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to...
All the Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics)

All the Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
Freckles

Freckles

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Discover this 5-star read: 'Wow' 'Heartwarming' 'Uplifting' 'Thought-provoking' 'One of those rare, special and unique heroines' 'A joy to...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Ulysses

Ulysses

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Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...
Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart

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Author: Holly Seddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Kate and Paul have been married for ten years. Childhood best friends who reconnected as adults, Paul now has...
Games and Rituals

Games and Rituals

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Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Superb' THE TIMES 'Joyous' THE OBSERVER The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of...
Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, Book 2)

Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, Book 2)

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Author: Jesse Sutanto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 They vow to make it a day to remember... The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For...
The Christmas Swap

The Christmas Swap

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Author: Sandy Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 "This was truly the Christmas romance of my dreams" 5 , Reader review Will all three women have their...
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

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Author: Sylvia Nasar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 558 The author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes the reader on a journey of discovery--how the greatest invention of...
All Our Shimmering Skies: the next bestselling novel from the author of Boy Swallows Universe

All Our Shimmering Skies

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A stunning new edition of one of the world's most beloved novels, ahead of the forthcoming Netflix adaptation...
Gone Tomorrow: (Jack Reacher 13)

Gone Tomorrow: (Jack Reacher 13)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Jack Reacher faces his most implacable enemy yet, in the double number one bestseller Lee Child. Enhances his status...
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...
Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 By addictive bestseller Lee Child, the brand new, action-packed, high-tension Jack Reacher thriller, which sees Reacher, at the end...
The Dry

The Dry

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The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Elena Ferrante Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under...
Dog Park

Dog Park

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Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger...
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Author: Joan Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A reinvigoration of the iconic Australian classic that captivated generations of readers, featuring stylish new cover art and a...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

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Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie...
The Slave: A Novel

The Slave: A Novel

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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 311 Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high...
The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh

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Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...
Pan

Pan

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Author: Knut Hamsun Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 159 Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a...
A History of Loneliness

A History of Loneliness

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Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church...
A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11)

A Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11)

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's ever-delightful and perennially bestselling series, amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is...
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics)

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics)

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Big Brother is Watching You.' Winston Smith...
Love Over Scotland

Love Over Scotland

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Love Over Scotland" is the third in the series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go...
Friday's Child: A classic Regency romance

Friday's Child: A classic Regency romance

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Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A dashing tale of heroes, heroines and Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical...
Nostalgia

Nostalgia

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Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...
The Arsonists' City: A Novel

The Arsonists' City: A Novel

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Author: Hala Alyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 "Feels revolutionary in its freshness." -Entertainment Weekly "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga,...
The House of Hidden Mothers

The House of Hidden Mothers

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Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...
Waiting for Tomorrow

Waiting for Tomorrow

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Author: Nathacha Appanah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bonds Anita is waiting for Adam to be released from...
Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017

Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017

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Author: Alain Mabanckou Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at...
Atonement: Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

Atonement: Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

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The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

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Author: Diane Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is wasting away, ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home....
Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones

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The Samurai

The Samurai

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Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...