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Birding

Birding

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'A beautiful book full of stark truths... Lyrical and evocative, highly recommended' Evie King, author of ASHES TO ADMIN'Beautifully written' Daily Mail'[An] empathetic, emotional reckoning' Mail on SundayIn a small...
The Lifeline: The big-hearted and life-affirming read about the power of friendship

The Lifeline: The big-hearted and life-affirming read about the [...]

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'I loved this book - could not put it down' 'A joy to read... I really did love every page of this book' 'An easy five stars' Everybody needs saving...
The Morningside: Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize

The Morningside: Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize

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There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside.The Morningside was once the jewel of Island City. But now the luxury high-rise...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC [...]

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WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...
Shanghailanders: Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025

Shanghailanders: Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025

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"I think love is when you think you need someonefor your survival. Survival, defined broadly.""The way you think, sometimes . . .""The way I think, what?""It . . . surprises...
A Spell of Good Things

A Spell of Good Things

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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023Ayobami Adebayo, the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides...
Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

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'So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and inspiring....
The Bell Tower: The brand new suspense thriller from an award-winning bestseller

The Bell Tower: The brand new suspense thriller from an award- [...]

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LIFE ON DEATH ROW TAKES ITS TOLL.UNTIL YOU CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE... Death Row duty comes with three simple rules: Do not make it personal Do not question the system...
How to Leave the House

How to Leave the House

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The funniest, wildest and most original debut novel of 2024 'Uproarious, generous and witty' New York Times'What a debut' Stephen Fry'A wild and funny ride through modern life' Financial Times'Gobby,...
Mind Games

Mind Games

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A brand new thriller from multi-million copy bestselling author Nora RobertsSometimes a gift can feel more like a curse'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'...
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller

Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller

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A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's bestselling novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's...
The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and unforgettable coming of age story

The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and [...]

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A powerful love letter to youth from Sunday Times bestselling author of Little Wing.When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you...
Ghost Season

Ghost Season

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With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
A Desert in Bohemia

A Desert in Bohemia

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Bear Pit

Bear Pit

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In Search of Ethel Cartwright

In Search of Ethel Cartwright

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'A warm and uplifting read... a gentle and inspiring, yet vital, reminder that life is there to be lived, and that regrets won't keep you warm as you age' Justin...
Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail

Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail

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Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who...
Malma Station

Malma Station

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On board the train to Malma Station are a married couple in crisis, a single dad and his young daughter, and a woman searching for the answer to a mystery...
The Last Word

The Last Word

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday TimesWords can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill...Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite...
The Painter's Daughters: The award-winning debut novel selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club

The Painter's Daughters: The award-winning debut novel selected [...]

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THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLER SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUBWINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL COMPETITION'Beautifully written . . . I raced through it' HILARY MANTEL'As exquisitely and...
Where the Crawdads Sing - Collector's Edition

Where the Crawdads Sing - Collector's Edition

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'Painfully beautiful' The New York Times Book Review'Heart-wrenching... a compelling love story' Entertainment Weekly'Astonishing' PeopleFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the...
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: The instant Sunday Times bestseller that everyone's talking about!

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: The instant Sunday Times [...]

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*DON'T MISS OUT - STUNNING LIMITED FIRST EDITION WITH JIGSAW PIECE CUT-OUT AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!*THE INSTANT TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Utterly beautiful. I adored it' JOANNA CANNON'Hugely...
The Mess We're In: An immersive story of music, friendship and finding your own rhythm, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Mess We're In: An immersive story of music, friendship and [...]

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'A heady mix of thrills and heartbreak . . . I enjoyed it so so much' GRAHAM NORTON'What [Macmanus has] managed to do with London, and what London means to...
I'm F*cking Amazing: The shocking, fresh, funny debut novel you'll be talking about for days

I'm F*cking Amazing: The shocking, fresh, funny debut novel [...]

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"Genuinely new, bold and fascinating" - Deborah Frances-White, author of The Guilty Feminist"Laugh-out-loud funny, brutally honest" - Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me"Raw, funny, visceral and heartbreaking" -...
The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and unforgettable coming of age story

The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and [...]

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A powerful love letter to youth from Sunday Times bestselling author of Little Wing.When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you...
A Court of Betrayal: The gripping new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author!

A Court of Betrayal: The gripping new historical novel from the [...]

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'A fantastically gripping story of love and betrayal, told with the masterful skill of a passionate storyteller. It kept me riveted until the last page!' BARBARA ERSKINE'Anne O'Brien crosses swathes...
In the Seeing Hands of Others

In the Seeing Hands of Others

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You are about to enter a novel formed of documents and evidence. Here is the blog of a nurse on a dialysis ward attempting to live in the aftermath of...
Rebellion (Eagles of the Empire 22)

Rebellion (Eagles of the Empire 22)

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'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN1st-century Britannia is the setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal uprisings,...
Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC AND THE EGG

Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC [...]

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'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREYThe eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg.If you stood before sunrise in...
The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

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'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett'...
Green Dot: A laugh-out-loud funny and brutally relatable debut novel

Green Dot: A laugh-out-loud funny and brutally relatable debut novel

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A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK 'One of the best books you will read...
Canoes

Canoes

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Seven interconnected stories orbit a central novella to create a collection of tales which resonate with the sound of women's voices.A widower struggles to erase his wife's voice from his...
Malma Station

Malma Station

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On board the train to Malma Station are a married couple in crisis, a single dad and his young daughter, and a woman searching for the answer to a mystery...
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: The instant Sunday Times bestseller that everyone's talking about!

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: The instant Sunday Times [...]

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*DON'T MISS OUT - STUNNING LIMITED FIRST EDITION WITH JIGSAW PIECE CUT-OUT AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!*THE INSTANT TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Utterly beautiful. I adored it' JOANNA CANNON'Hugely...
Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail

Night Swimmers: 'Beautifully written and wonderful' Daily Mail

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Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who...
I Curse the River of Time

I Curse the River of Time

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When I Was Your Age Book 2

When I Was Your Age Book 2

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Girl

Girl

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Libby's Journey

Libby's Journey

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Day Job: A Workplace Reader for the Restless Age

Day Job: A Workplace Reader for the Restless Age

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Bedtime Favorites-3rd Edition

Bedtime Favorites-3rd Edition

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Disgrace

Disgrace

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In an novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two year old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter,...
The Glow: A Novel

The Glow: A Novel

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Solar

Solar

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Kitty and Her Boys

Kitty and Her Boys

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Children of Paradise: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

Children of Paradise: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

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Author: Camilla GrudovaFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 362g, 208 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2022Longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionWhen Holly applies for a job at the Paradise...
Collected Novels Volume 2

Collected Novels Volume 2

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Author: Paul AusterFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 241mm, 1052g, 608 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2005In The Music of Chance, the story of Jim Nashe and Jack Pozzi, Auster evokes...
Forever Odd

Forever Odd

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