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The English Girl: A compelling, sweeping novel of love, loss, secrets and betrayal

The English Girl: A compelling, sweeping novel of love, loss, secrets and betrayal

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Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled a lifelong dream to visit Arabia by travelling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiance, Rory. Desperate to escape...
Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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An Equal Music

An Equal Music

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Evening Class

Evening Class

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The Woman in the Picture

The Woman in the Picture

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February, 1926. The city of London is tense in the days leading up to The General Strike. Evelyn Gifford, (protagonist of THE CRIMSON ROOMS) has now qualified as a solicitor...
Beatrice And Virgil

Beatrice And Virgil

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Yann Martel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Destiny can take many shapes....
This Year It Will Be Different: Christmas tales

This Year It Will Be Different: Christmas tales

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Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...
Mongrel: 'So beautiful ... It must be read' - LISA TADDEO

Mongrel: 'So beautiful ... It must be read' - LISA TADDEO

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'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' AISLING BEA 'Heart-shatteringly visceral and precise . . . a triumphant tribute to...
Beyond Suspicion

Beyond Suspicion

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The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The uplifting million-copy bestselling Japanese translated story

The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The uplifting million-copy bestselling

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Beautiful new hardback edition including a ribbon, illustrated coloured endpapers and luscious finishes on the front - perfect for gifting at Christmas for new and existing TRAVELLING CAT fans. STUNNING...
We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part

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Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...
Foster: by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These

Foster: by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These

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A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's classic and beloved novella Foster. WINNER OF THE DAVY BYRNES IRISH WRITING AWARD 'A real jewel.' Irish Independent 'A small miracle.' Sunday...
Shy Creatures: From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures

Shy Creatures: From the author of bestselling sensation Small

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'A magnificent novel. I loved it to its bones' EMMA STONEX'Completely absorbing' LISSA EVANS'A lively, funny, forgiving novel' PATRICK GALE'A rich and tender story of kindness and compassion' RUTH HOGANIn...
Alter Ego: An unputdownable page-turner that will make you laugh and cry

Alter Ego: An unputdownable page-turner that will make you laugh and

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'Powerful, joyful, heartbreaking and so funny all at once' SARA NISHA ADAMS 'Every now and then a book comes along that changes the way you see the world, and this...
Over My Dead Body: 'I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT

Over My Dead Body: 'I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five

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Dr Miriam Price has been murdered. And she's absolutely furious about it...'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous,...
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...
Moral Injuries: The gripping new novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

Moral Injuries: The gripping new novel from the No. 1 Sunday [...]

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From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Watson, comes a heart-pounding new psychological drama of secrets, lies, morals and medicine.'Unique and compelling' ELIZABETH DAY 'True literary perfection' EMMA...
Sylvia's Second Act: The hilarious, heartwarming and utterly feel-good read for 2024!

Sylvia's Second Act: The hilarious, heartwarming and utterly [...]

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'Hilarious, heartwarming and delightfully refreshing' CAROL KIRKWOOD'I loved this joyous romp about starting afresh late in life' DAILY MAIL'Will put a twinkle in your eye and a spring in your...
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...
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'...
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...
State Secrets (Bob Skinner series, Book 28): A terrible act in the heart of Westminster. A tough-talking cop faces his most challenging investigation...

State Secrets (Bob Skinner series, Book 28): A terrible act in the heart of Westminster. A tough-talking cop faces his most challenging investigation...

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Quintin Jardine's twenty-eighth Bob Skinner mystery sees the Edinburgh sleuth plunged into a gripping new case.     Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner is long out of the police force...
Mr. Murder

Mr. Murder

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The Best Friend

The Best Friend

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'The most complex of bonds is explored in this startlingly original and finely drawn portrait of female friendship, with all its uplifting and destructive intensity'   ELLERY LLOYD    ...
The Knights of Atlantis (Wilde/Chase 17)

The Knights of Atlantis (Wilde/Chase 17)

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Author: Andy McDermottFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 238mm, 764g, 512 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023AN ADRENALINE-CHARGED NEW WILDE & CHASE ADVENTURE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORArchaeologist Nina Wilde and...
The Broken Afternoon

The Broken Afternoon

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Author: Simon MasonFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 234mm, 560g, 352 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023'Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural' Val...
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

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Author: Keiran GoddardFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 218mm, 380g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes. Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up...
How to Write a Poem

How to Write a Poem

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Author: Kwame Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist...
Ten Owies

Ten Owies

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Author: Tony Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A hilarious story about ten silly children who accidently end up with ten silly owies. This big-hearted, positive-minded picture book is...
The Night Tide

The Night Tide

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Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret

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Dear Life

Dear Life

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Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings

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Tea Time For The Traditionally Built

Tea Time For The Traditionally Built

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The White Queen

The White Queen

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The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

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Author: Jacob Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters...
My Life As A Fake

My Life As A Fake

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Ford County

Ford County

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Bettany's Book

Bettany's Book

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Cradle

Cradle

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Mexico

Mexico

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The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears

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A Lesson In Love: A Little Village School Novel (Book 4): A Little Village School Novel

A Lesson In Love: A Little Village School Novel (Book 4): A Little Village School Novel

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Author: Gervase Phinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth Little Village School novel. Love is in the air in the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale. Anyone can see that...
Charity

Charity

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The Grass Sister

The Grass Sister

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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

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Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of

Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of

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The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone,...
Quarter to Midnight: the thrilling first book in a brand new series

Quarter to Midnight: the thrilling first book in a brand new series

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The truth of what happened that night lies with a secret witness. Quarter to Midnight is the first thrilling novel in a brand new series by Sunday Times bestselling author...