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The Devil's Music

The Devil's Music

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It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father...
Still She Haunts Me

Still She Haunts Me

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For seven years Charles Dodgson, a painfully shy Oxford don, and Alice Liddell, the fascinating little girl who was the daughter of the dean of Christ Church, had a strange,...
Scarlet Feather

Scarlet Feather

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Scarlet Feather is the catering company newly formed by cooking school friends Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet. They're young and talented, they've made some smart connections, and they've found the...
SANTA EVITA

SANTA EVITA

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A novel about the death of Eva Peron. Faced with losing her, her husband decided to make her immortal by having her preserved and put on display as Saint Evita....
Love Like Hate Adore

Love Like Hate Adore

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From the author of SKY and FRANCEY, a novel which charts what happens when someone who is known and trusted is accused of rape.
Mad Cows

Mad Cows

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The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel

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'- The bestselling status (and subsequent blockbuster film adaptations) of Bridget Jones's Diary and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is proof of the enduring strength of this category.- Although...
Lush: 'The one scratching that Sally Rooney itch' Stylist Best Books

Lush: 'The one scratching that Sally Rooney itch' Stylist Best Books

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Four people, each at a crucial point in their lives, arrive at a French vineyard estate for an unforgettable experience - but not the kind they expected. Avery gave up...
The Daughters: A Novel

The Daughters: A Novel

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Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she...
Then Came You

Then Came You

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An unexpected love story... Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she's ashamed to invite to Parents' Weekend. With the...
Between the Assassinations

Between the Assassinations

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Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich...
That Part Was True

That Part Was True

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Reminiscent of ONE DAY meets 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, THAT PART WAS TRUE is a bittersweet story about falling in love and risking it all. When Eve Petworth writes to...
Drylands

Drylands

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Dead Famous

Dead Famous

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Do you have to be dead to be famous? Stanley Buckle is a quiet sort of boy. Since his dad died, his closest friend has been Neville, an artist who...
Web of Dreams

Web of Dreams

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Toyer: a Novel

Toyer: a Novel

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A serial stalker known as Toyer who preys on the women of Los Angeles plays cat and mouse with psychotherapist Dr. Maude Garance.
The Invisible Kingdom

The Invisible Kingdom

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Gorgeous words and stunning illustrations combine in a book for anyone aged 8-80, by internationally renowned papercut artist Rob Ryan. Rob Ryan has collaborated with Paul Smith, Liberty, Fortnum and...
Necessary Madness

Necessary Madness

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Gloria's husband is buried in England nine years to the day after her father's suicide in America. How can she go on living? But she must, if not for herself,...
Summerland

Summerland

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The most pleasurable read you'll have this year - a lead fiction title for Picador. Every year since they can remember two couples have spent their holidays on the sun-drenched...
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

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CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi,...
Firefight

Firefight

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Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, his life was torn apart...
A House Between Earth and the Moon: A Novel

A House Between Earth and the Moon: A Novel

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"Compulsively readable." - The New York Times Book Review "Inventive and thrilling. . . . I couldn't put it down." -Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The...
The Interrogator: The Story of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, Master

The Interrogator: The Story of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, Master

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This is the story of Hanns Scharff the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War...
The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place

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A gripping and vivid novel of childhood and family feuding in the tradition of Kate Atkinson and Seamus Deane'Vivid, moving, alive: The Hiding Place opens up ordinary-looking doors to let...
City

City

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'CITY is an important title for me, because it expresses what this book has always been in my head. A city. No particular city. An impression of a city rather....
Dream Count

Dream Count

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'Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
The End of the Alphabet

The End of the Alphabet

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Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill...
African Stories

African Stories

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A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of...
Idle Grounds

Idle Grounds

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The riveting debut novel 'Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER 'Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way' RACHEL...
A Shore Thing

A Shore Thing

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It's a summer to remember . . . at the Jersey Shore. Giovanna "Gia" Spumanti and her cousin Isabella "Bella" Rizzoli are going to have the sexiest summer ever. While...
Queenie: British Book Awards Book of the Year

Queenie: British Book Awards Book of the Year

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'Hilarious, compelling, painful, enlightening, honest. I loved it' - Dolly Alderton 'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' - Jojo Moyes 'Inspirational, funny and wise' - Kit de Waal Queenie Jenkins can't cut...
And the Ocean Was Our Sky

And the Ocean Was Our Sky

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From the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls comes a haunting tale of power and obsession that turns the story of Moby Dick upside down. "Call me Bathsheba." The whales...
The Year Of The Virgins

The Year Of The Virgins

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It had never been the best of marriages, yet in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson still presented an acceptable family facade to the outside world. There was...
Lili

Lili

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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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Margaret Atwood's feminist 1984 is an excellent A-level text. As one of the few women left with functioning ovaries Offred has only one role in the Republic of Gilead: to...
A House Called Pleasance

A House Called Pleasance

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Author: Laura ConwayBinding: HardbackPublished: E.P. Dutton., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded spine, minor tears in DJ and name of previous owner...
The Captain's Table

The Captain's Table

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Author: Richard GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has minor wear and tanning along spine, pages have light tanning. Dust jacket...
Love, Let Me Not Hunger

Love, Let Me Not Hunger

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Author: Paul GallicoBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket damaged with tearing along spine edges and back panels, small sections of jacket missing,Love, Let Me...