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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...
Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls

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Author: Cecile Pin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope' Ocean...
Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics)

Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: J. G. Ballard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books...
The Dog of the North

The Dog of the North

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Author: Elizabeth McKenzie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The...
The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape...
Games and Rituals

Games and Rituals

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Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Superb' THE TIMES 'Joyous' THE OBSERVER The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of...
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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Author: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'Deeply moving' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Remarkable' Afua...
A Narrow Door: The electric psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

A Narrow Door: The electric psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Joanne Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Your favourite authors have been gripped by this electric psychological thriller! 'A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist...
Monument Maker

Monument Maker

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Author: David Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR CONCRETE ISLANDS NO. 1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 'In a dizzying gyroscopic vortex of...
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics)

The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing - a powerful account of a woman searching for her...
Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

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Author: Ayad Akhtar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and...
All in Her Head: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce

All in Her Head: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce

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Author: Nikki Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 DISCOVER THE DEBUT THRILLER GETTING INSIDE EVERYONE'S HEAD THIS YEAR 'Tense and moving' - HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood...
The Constant Star

The Constant Star

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Author: Jessica Stirling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The Second World War hits home to a scattered East End family in new and unexpected ways in Jessica Stirling's stirring...
A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

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Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In A Ballet of Lepers Leonard Cohen explores themes that would come to permeate his later works - shame stemming from...
Harsh Times

Harsh Times

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act...
The Corrections

The Corrections

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 566 #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A spellbinding novel" (People) from the New York Times bestselling...
The Archer

The Archer

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Author: Shruti Swamy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that...
Things Can Only Get Better

Things Can Only Get Better

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Author: David M. Barnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 *FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM* For elderly churchwarden Arthur Calderbank, there's no place like...
Stubborn Archivist: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

Stubborn Archivist: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

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Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Compelling . . . it should delight anyone looking for a thoughtful, witty successor to Sally Rooney' Observer...
The Weekend Before the Wedding

The Weekend Before the Wedding

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Author: Tracy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Mamma Mia meets Bridesmaids in a laugh-out-loud, life affirming comedy 'An absolute winner' Celia Anderson 'No-one depicts family life with more...
The Family String

The Family String

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Author: Denise Picton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old...
Winterlight: Book Seven

Winterlight: Book Seven

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Author: Kristen Britain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 After her capture at the hands of Grandmother and the Second Empire, Karigan G'ladheon is making halting progress towards...
Tokyo Redux

Tokyo Redux

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Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the...
Paper Swans: Tracing the path back to love

Paper Swans: Tracing the path back to love

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Author: Jessica Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Ben Lawrence seems to have it all - the hot job, the flashy car, the luxurious apartment. But one tragic day...
These Streets

These Streets

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Author: Luan Goldie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, comes a new thought-provoking and timely...
Everything the Light Touches

Everything the Light Touches

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Author: Janice Pariat Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH 'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI 'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANE In this bold...
London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer

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Author: Anthony Quinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation...
The Aerodynamics of Pork

The Aerodynamics of Pork

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Author: Patrick Gale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK is an irresistible novel of love, music and comedy - 'A master storyteller' Independent on...
The Woman in the Picture

The Woman in the Picture

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Author: Katharine McMahon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 February, 1926. The city of London is tense in the days leading up to The General Strike. Evelyn Gifford, (protagonist of...
Caul Baby: A Novel

Caul Baby: A Novel

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Author: Morgan Jerkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins's fiction debut, an electrifying novel for fans of Ta-Nehisi...
The Minister Primarily: A Novel

The Minister Primarily: A Novel

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Author: John Oliver Killens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John...
The Dog That Saved Stewart Coolidge

The Dog That Saved Stewart Coolidge

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Author: Jim Kraus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When a stray dog helps himself to a bone from a display in the supermarket, he doesn't know his actions will...
Without a Hitch

Without a Hitch

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Author: Mary Hollis Huddleston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Sweet Home AlabamameetsEmily in Parisin this hilarious romp through the world of extravagant southern weddings. Ringless, jobless, and hopeless, Lottie...