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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...
White Elephant LP

White Elephant LP

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Author: Julie Langsdorf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans...
The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs

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Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the...
Dominicana

Dominicana

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Author: Angie Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction "Through a novel with so much...
My Everything: the uplifting #1 bestseller

My Everything: the uplifting #1 bestseller

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Author: Katie Marsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 On the day Hannah is finally going to tell her husband of five and a half years that she...
The Sweet Indifference of the World

The Sweet Indifference of the World

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Author: Peter Stamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an...
Our Country Friends

Our Country Friends

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Author: Gary Shteyngart (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one...
Girl

Girl

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Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Girl, Edna O'Brien's hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and...
Femlandia

Femlandia

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Author: Christina Dalcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of VOX and Q 'A compelling, fast paced read.' Guardian 'The...
The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In the spring of 1943, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day...
The Republic of False Truths

The Republic of False Truths

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Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building. 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we...
Those Who Knew

Those Who Knew

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Author: Idra Novey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple *...
A Passage North

A Passage North

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Author: Anuk Arudpragasam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances,...
The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous expose...
Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller

Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 OBSERVER BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE Oh friend, take my...
The Guest Book

The Guest Book

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Author: Sarah Blake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction...
The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor

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Author: Lucy Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 "A COMPLEX, CREEPY, AND INSIDIOUS NOVEL ABOUT AMBITION." --THE GUARDIAN "READERS OF RUTH WARE AND GILLIAN FLYNN WILL LOVE...
The Heavens

The Heavens

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Author: Sandra Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is...
Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries

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Author: Joshua Furst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the Year Fred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous...
The Temple House Vanishing

The Temple House Vanishing

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Author: Rachel Donohue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Power. Jealousy. Desire. Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace... When Louisa arrives...
The Birthday Girl

The Birthday Girl

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Author: Melissa De La Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza comes a return to adult fiction, centered...
Secrets of Happiness

Secrets of Happiness

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Author: Joan Silber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family - a...
The Coward

The Coward

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Author: Jarred McGinnis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Question: What's worse than being in a wheelchair? Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair. After a car accident Jarred discovers...
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The most moving, unforgettable book of 2021, inspired by true events

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The most moving, unforgettable book of 2021, inspired by true events

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Author: Laura Imai Messina Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Absolutely breathtaking' - Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. We all have something...
Victoria Park

Victoria Park

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Author: Gemma Reeves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their sixty-...
The Interpreter from Java

The Interpreter from Java

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Author: Alfred Birney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 542 Alan Noland discovers his father's memoirs about the atrocities he committed in the Dutch East Indies during the war...
Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant

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Author: Patrice Nganang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya,...
Outrageous Horizon

Outrageous Horizon

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Author: Adrien Bosc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 March 1941. A converted cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the...
Black Light

Black Light

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Author: Kimberly King Parsons (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush...I loved every moment of this...
Little Boy

Little Boy

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Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from ... Grown Boy...
The Child

The Child

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Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is...
The Death of Comrade President

The Death of Comrade President

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Author: Alain Mabanckou Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline...
All This Could Be Yours

All This Could Be Yours

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His...
Beyond Sleep

Beyond Sleep

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Author: Willem Frederik Hermans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A young geologist is determined to win fame for making a great discovery. To this end he joins...
A Beast in Paradise

A Beast in Paradise

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Author: Cecile Coulon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Emilienne's life is Paradise, her isolated farm at the end of a winding path. After the sudden death of...
Zed

Zed

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Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, CEO of Beetle, has become one of the world's most powerful...
Fullalove

Fullalove

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Author: Gordon Burn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift...
The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Kurdish refugee Selim ends up in a small town in Germany, he believes he is finally safe, until...