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News of Our Loved Ones: A Novel

News of Our Loved Ones: A Novel

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Author: Abigail DeWitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and...
The White Tiger

The White Tiger

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Author: Aravind Adiga (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You...
Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings...
PS, I Love You

PS, I Love You

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives...
Conversations with Friends: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People

Conversations with Friends: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People

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Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From the bestselling author of Normal People, now a major TV series screening on Stan. Frances is a cool-headed...
Girl A

Girl A

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Author: Abigail Dean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD OSMAN 'Haunting, powerful, with a pitch-perfect ending' THE NEW YORK TIMES *WATERSTONES...
One Minute Later

One Minute Later

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Author: Susan Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Susan Lewis has a gift for telling warm family stories that also take you by surprise. One Minute Later...
Songbirds: The powerful, evocative novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Songbirds: The powerful, evocative novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo

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Author: Christy Lefteri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.'...
Think of Me

Think of Me

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Author: Frances Liardet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must...
Babysitter

Babysitter

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'A page-turner ... nothing less than magical' Observer 'An extraordinary slice of suburban noir' Daily Mail From one...
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...
Armageddon in Retrospect

Armageddon in Retrospect

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death-a fitting tribute to the author, and an...
House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn

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Author: N. Scott Momaday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece set against the landscape of the American Southwest. 'Superb' New York Times A young Native American,...
In Case You Missed It

In Case You Missed It

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Author: Lindsey Kelk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 What if Mr Right was right in front of you all along? Escape with the laugh out loud brand-new...
Letters From the Past: The captivating family drama from the Sunday Times Bestseller

Letters From the Past: The captivating family drama from the Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Erica James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The captivating new drama of family secrets and second chances, from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James It's the autumn of...
Here Again Now: 'Written in exquisite prose and told with compassion and tenderness' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half

Here Again Now

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Author: Okechukwu Nzelu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A beautiful exploration of grief and family, written in exquisite prose and told with compassion and tenderness.' Brit Bennett, author of...
The Girls of Lake Evelyn

The Girls of Lake Evelyn

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Author: Averil Kenny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 You cannot force me to marry him. For once, please let me choose... It's 1958 and Vivienne George is due to...
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...
An Untamed State

An Untamed State

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Author: Roxane Gay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti s richest sons, she has...
Close Quarters: Introduced by Helen Castor

Close Quarters: Introduced by Helen Castor

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Author: William Golding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world. A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled...
One Little Lie

One Little Lie

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Author: Lauren Weisberger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 *Previously published in hardback as Where the Grass is Green* The escapist new novel from the global bestselling author of The...
That Night

That Night

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Author: Alice McDermott (Johns Hopkins University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 181 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the...
The Single Girl's To-Do List

The Single Girl's To-Do List

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Author: Lindsey Kelk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Don't miss this laugh out loud romantic comedy, now with exclusive brand-new 80-page story! Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: boyfriend,...
Threats

Threats

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Author: Amelia Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 278 0
Summer at Buttercup Beach: A gorgeously uplifting and heartwarming romance

Summer at Buttercup Beach: A gorgeously uplifting and heartwarming romance

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Author: Holly Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This summer everything is about to change on Hope Island. The sand is warm, the sea is sparkling and a second...
Girlchild

Girlchild

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Author: Tupelo Hassman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 275 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn't got a troop or...
Shantaram

Shantaram

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The Seaplane on Final Approach

The Seaplane on Final Approach

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Author: Rebecca Rukeyser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking bookuntil I devoured it in a single sitting ... A...
The Vixen: A Novel

The Vixen: A Novel

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Author: Francine Prose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . ....
Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment

Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to...
Doxology

Doxology

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving...
Red Crosses

Red Crosses

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Author: Sasha Filipenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment...
Cost

Cost

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Author: Roxana Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she...
Muck: A Novel

Muck: A Novel

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Author: Dror Burstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, two young...
Acceptance

Acceptance

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Author: Susan Coll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and...
The Black Dress: By the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Black Dress: By the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Author: Deborah Moggach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Pru is on her own. But then, so are plenty of other people. And while the loneliness can be overwhelming, surely...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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Author: Oscar Hijuelos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of...
A Crooked Tree

A Crooked Tree

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Author: Una Mannion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto...
Down There on a Visit

Down There on a Visit

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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher...
All Decent Animals

All Decent Animals

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Author: Oonya Kempadoo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel, All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters...
Rembrandts Whore

Rembrandt's Whore

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Author: Sylvie Matton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to become a servant in Rembrandt's...
Ginger and Me

Ginger and Me

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Author: Elissa Soave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Funny, touching and wise, I loved it' Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely but...
Graffiti Palace

Graffiti Palace

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Author: A G Lombardo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A brilliant, exhilarating debut novel that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots--like nothing you've ever read before It's...
Babel

Babel

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Author: Alan Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define...
The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned

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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A captivating and glamorous tale of squandered talent that defined 'The Lost Generation' of 1920s New York Anthony Patch and...
The Color Purple: Hachette Essentials

The Color Purple: Hachette Essentials

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection...
World in the Evening

World in the Evening

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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in...
The Man in the Woods: A secluded village in the Alps, a brutal killer, a dark secret hiding in the woods

The Man in the Woods: A secluded village in the Alps, a brutal killer, a dark secret hiding in the woods

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Author: Ilaria Tuti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 POLICE INSPECTOR TERESA BATTAGLIA IS: [ ] Too old for her job [ ] Overweight and diabetic [ ] Terrified [...