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The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie,...
Dr. B.

Dr. B.

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Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and...
A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller

A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller

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Author: Amor Towles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a transporting novel about a man who...
Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'The perfect balance of romcom and drama!' GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She's not the bride... Edie thought she'd...
For Whom The Bell Tolls

For Whom The Bell Tolls

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'The best book Hemingway has written' New York Times High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a...
Mrs March

Mrs March

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Author: Virginia Feito Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Nastily good fun' Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh...
The Conservationist

The Conservationist

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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that...
Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

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Author: Jesse Sutanto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 'Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

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Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace...
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

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Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...
These Violent Delights: A Novel

These Violent Delights: A Novel

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Author: Micah Nemerever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A Literary Hub Best Book of Year * A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year * A Newsweek 25 Best...
Over My Dead Body (William Warwick Novels)

Over My Dead Body (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey Archer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING...
61 Hours: (Jack Reacher 14)

61 Hours: (Jack Reacher 14)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel...
The Life I was Meant to Live: cosy up with this uplifting and heart-warming novel of second chances

The Life I was Meant to Live: cosy up with this uplifting and heart-warming novel of second chances

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Author: Julien Sandrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A charming and heart-warming read that will warm your cockles this winter' Heat Thirty-nine-year-old Romane is a doctor and hypochondriac. Her...
Definitely Fine: The most painfully funny and relatable debut you'll read this year!

Definitely Fine

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Author: Amy Lavelle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 *A COSMOPOLITAN SUMMER 2021 TOP PICK!* 'If you loved Fleabag, you'll love this' LAURA KEMP Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst...
HMS Surprise (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 3)

HMS Surprise (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 3)

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Author: Patrick O'Brian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 How far will a man go in the name of revenge, honour, love or simple survival? Far from familiar...
Good Omens

Good Omens

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Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The classic, bestselling dark and hilarious take on mankind's final judgement by two genre giants, now an Amazon Prime...
Flames

Flames

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Author: Robbie Arnott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's...
Nadja

Nadja

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Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...
Dubliners

Dubliners

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Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
Early Morning Riser

Early Morning Riser

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Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Gorgeous. Very, very funny in a knowing wry way but so tender, so beautiful. I loved all the characters.' Marian Keyes...
And the Ass Saw the Angel: Popular Penguins

And the Ass Saw the Angel: Popular Penguins

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Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 324 Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the...
Echo Burning: (Jack Reacher 5)

Echo Burning: (Jack Reacher 5)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Another heartstopping page turner from the number one bestseller, starring Jack Reacher. "Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy...
Here's Looking At You

Here's Looking At You

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Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A laugh-out-loud read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of If I Never Met You Anna Alessi - history...
Eden

Eden

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Author: Candice Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Australian author Candice Fox has taken the crime-writing world by storm in the last few years and become a...
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

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Author: Boris Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition. From the...
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...
Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20)

Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This pacy, nailbiting new Jack Reacher thriller is one of Lee Child's darkest and most addictive yet. Prepare to...
It Started with a Secret: The unmissable Sunday Times bestseller from author of MAYBE THIS TIME

It Started with a Secret: The unmissable Sunday Times bestseller from author of MAYBE THIS TIME

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Author: Jill Mansell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Jill's Mansell's heart-warming new book is the perfect escape from the winter weather. A beautiful Cornish setting, a chaotic...
Atonement

Atonement

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies....
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
How to Kill Your Family

How to Kill Your Family

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Author: Bella Mackie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYES 'Chilling, but also...
A Heart so White

A Heart so White

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...
Dancer

Dancer

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Author: Colum McCann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Remarkable ... nimble, lyrical and wispy' Sunday Times 'An utterly riveting, frequently moving, and staggeringly well-written book' Daily Mail 'Breathtaking' Guardian...
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning...
All That I Am

All That I Am

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Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and...
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

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Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork...
Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is...
In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding. Tim Winton's classic...
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

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Author: Anne Tyler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.'...
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.

Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.

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Author: Jonas Jonasson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and...
The Little Drummer Girl (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

The Little Drummer Girl (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The classic le Carre spy novel comes to AMC as a 6 part mini-series starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael...
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...
Live a Little: A Novel

Live a Little: A Novel

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Author: Howard Jacobson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of "our funniest writers alive" (Allison Pearson):...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
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...