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Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel

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Author: George Orwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A spectacular graphic adaptation of the greatest dystopian novel ever written Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers

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Author: Cathleen Schine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice.Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog...
The Way Things Were

The Way Things Were

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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian (London), Kirkus Reviews, and People The Way Things Were opens with...
Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories

Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories

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Author: Stuart Dybek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In this remarkable collection of bite-size stories, Stuart Dybek, one of our most prodigious writers, explores the human appetite for rapture...
Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten

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Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John...
The Optickal Illusion

The Optickal Illusion

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Author: Rachel Halliburton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 382 In this vividly fashioned debut, Rachel Halliburton draws from the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal...
The Liberation

The Liberation

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Author: Kate Furnivall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Fabulous' Lesley Pearse The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring...
The Wedding Night: A stylish and gripping thriller about deception and female friendship

The Wedding Night: A stylish and gripping thriller about deception and female friendship

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Author: Harriet Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 What do you do when the wedding of your dreams turns into a nightmare? When Lizzie calls off her wedding in...
The Committed

The Committed

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Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look...
Bruny

Bruny

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The Long Road from Kandahar

The Long Road from Kandahar

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Author: Sara MacDonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles... Pakistan Among the almond orchards of the Swat Valley, Zamir tends goats...
Everything About You: Discover this year's most cutting-edge thriller

Everything About You: Discover this year's most cutting-edge thriller

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Author: Heather Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Black Mirror meets Gone Girl' Rosamund Lupton, Richard and Judy and Sunday Times bestseller 'Amazing, creepy, twisty and clever'...
The Slaughterman's Daughter: Winner of the Wingate Prize 2021

The Slaughterman's Daughter: Winner of the Wingate Prize 2021

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Author: Yaniv Iczkovits Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The townsfolk of Motal, a small town in the Pale of Settlement where nothing extraordinary ever happens, are shocked...
The Great Mistake

The Great Mistake

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Author: Jonathan Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903....
The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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The Weekend

The Weekend

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Personal: (Jack Reacher 19)

Personal: (Jack Reacher 19)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller in Lee Child's number-one bestselling...
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro...
Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...
Just an Ordinary Day

Just an Ordinary Day

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
Touchstones Essays on Literature Art and Politic

Touchstones Essays on Literature Art and Politic

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 354 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists--and the recipient of the...
It's Now or Never: A feel-good and funny read from the Sunday Times bestseller

It's Now or Never: A feel-good and funny read from the Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Carole Matthews Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 When twins Annie and Lauren attend their older sister Chelsea's fortieth birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel, they wonder...
Hystopia

Hystopia

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Author: David Means Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Named a Best of the Year Selection by Kirkus Reviews, the San Francisco Chronicle, Commonweal...
Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two...
Love

Love

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Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER. Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With...
The Sign of the Four (Collins Classics)

The Sign of the Four (Collins Classics)

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How often have I said to you that...
Terms Of Inheritance: The best funny and uplifting summer beach read from the author of Emergency Exit Only for fans of Toni Jordan, Rachael Johns and Jojo Moyes

Terms Of Inheritance: The best funny and uplifting summer beach read from the author of Emergency Exit Only for fans of Toni Jordan, Rachael Johns and Jojo Moyes

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Author: Michelle Upton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Four sisters. A vast fortune. And a mother who thinks she knows best ... Where there's a will, there's a way....
The Wall LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

The Wall LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

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Author: John Lanchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Masterly...A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' - Guardian 'A 1984 for our times.' - Daily Express Kavanagh begins...
The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful...
That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music

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Author: Kevin Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island,...
I Give It To You

I Give It To You

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Author: Valerie Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Jan Vidor seems like the ideal houseguest for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive but not antisocial, the...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

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Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...
Fatherland

Fatherland

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Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What if Hitler had won the war? A gripping, number one bestselling historical thriller from the award-winning master of...
Child of Fortune

Child of Fortune

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Author: Yuko Tsushima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the...
The Visitor: (Jack Reacher 4)

The Visitor: (Jack Reacher 4)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Lee Child's fourth unputdownable thriller starring Jack Reacher features a chilling serial killer. Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted...
The Essential Hemingway

The Essential Hemingway

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian The Essential Hemingway...
Drums Of Autumn: (Outlander 4)

Drums Of Autumn: (Outlander 4)

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Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1200 THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will...
Blindness

Blindness

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Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation,...
The Bad Girl

The Bad Girl

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a...
The Big Green Tent: A Novel

The Big Green Tent: A Novel

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Author: Ludmila Ulitskaya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it...
Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and Daughters

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Author: Erica James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A sweeping family drama of old secrets and new beginnings... 'A satisfying treat' Adele Parks, Platinum 'A compelling family drama' Sarah...
Across the China Sea

Across the China Sea

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Author: Gaute Heivoll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An atmospheric and affecting novel set in rural Norway, by the award-winning author of Before I Burn In the waning days...
Abroad

Abroad

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Author: Katie Crouch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of the bestselling Girls in Trucks, a gripping testament to the beauty and recklessness of youth The ancient...
Home Remedies

Home Remedies

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Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...
Love Is Blind

Love Is Blind

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Author: William Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into...
The Gunners

The Gunners

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From childhood into adolescence, The Gunners were an inseparable gang of friends, taking their name from the previous occupants of the...