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Games and Rituals

Games and Rituals

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'Superb'THE TIMES'Joyous'THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet...
Next of Kin

Next of Kin

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FROM THE VIRAL TIK TOK AUTHOR OF OUT ON A LIMB AND NEXT TO YOU! Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable...
Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game?

Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game?

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From the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle and Becoming Ted, a brand new enemies-to-lovers romcom for fans of Ted Lasso and Red, White and Royal Blue ....
These Impossible Things: An unforgettable story of love and friendship

These Impossible Things: An unforgettable story of love and friendship

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'Captures the fierceness of female friendship' BETH O'LEARY | 'The essential book on sisterhood' NIKITA GILLShortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance to...
Love in the Time of Bertie

Love in the Time of Bertie

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The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall SmithLife for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather...
Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025

Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025

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'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...
Banyan Moon

Banyan Moon

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The perfect book club read FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat'This novel...
The Granta Book of the African Short Story

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection...
The Antarctica of Love

The Antarctica of Love

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"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times"Stridsberg writes with chilling poise" New York Times"A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me awestruck" KATE REED...
The Hawkling

The Hawkling

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The rebels on the other side of the Shadowpass are massing, and refugees are flooding in to the city. Scared, penniless and not exactly welcome, they are desperate for the...
The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller

The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda

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'An extraordinary achievement . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'A monumental epic . . . I was spellbound' Nathan...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 | LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REIDA queen...
The Trial: the twisty, addictive thriller from the author of DON'T LOOK BACK

The Trial: the twisty, addictive thriller from the author of DON'T

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'Jo Spain is a sublime storyteller . . . this is a book you won't want to put down' JANE CASEY2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the...
When I Died for the First Time

When I Died for the First Time

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'What a ride this is! A big wide book. An amazingly vivid piece of writing, from the hilarious to the horrifying and everything in between' BRIAN ENOMeet Seth Brakes. Musician....
The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBrideYeong-hye and her husband are ordinary...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller

Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller

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'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...
The Last Days of Joy: The bestselling novel of a simmering family secret

The Last Days of Joy: The bestselling novel of a simmering [...]

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EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST BETTER AT HIDING THEIRS...A TOP 5 BESTSELLER IN IRELAND AND NEW ZEALAND. 'You will fall in love with every one of the Tobin...
Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

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Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate...
The Hypocrite: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024

The Hypocrite: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024

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What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children?The...
Just By Looking at Him: The ONLY book you need to read this LGBTQ+ Pride season, from a hilarious new voice

Just By Looking at Him: The ONLY book you need to read this [...]

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'A horny romp that makes you think, laugh, and feel. O'Connell is one of my favourite writers' MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually'A very funny novel about falling for...
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 Mystery Guest

The Mystery Guest

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DO NOT DISTURB. WHODUNNIT IN PROGRESS...'So many twists and turns' 'Full of such charm! 'Had me gripped from the beginning' _______________DO NOT DISTURB. WHODUNNIT IN PROGRESS...Molly the maid sees everything...
Bad Fruit

Bad Fruit

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EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . .'A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book . . . .I genuinely loved this, it will stay with me for...
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

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'Clever and astute ... a cracking read' The Belfast Telegraph'One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways' Hello Magazine* * * From the...
Behind Her Eyes

Behind Her Eyes

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Don't trust this book. Don't trust these people. Don't trust yourself. And whatever you do, don't give away that ending...No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Behind Her Eyes has been called the...
The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family

The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family

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'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father,...
Wing: The compelling new novel from the award winning author of the bestselling THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE and THE RIPPING TREE, for readers of Charlotte Wood and Suzie Miller

Wing: The compelling new novel from the award winning author of the bestselling THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE and THE RIPPING TREE, for readers of Charlotte Wood and Suzie Miller

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An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell - Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman. Students from an...
Beach House Summer

Beach House Summer

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Who Killed Piet Barol?

Who Killed Piet Barol?

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Cape Town, 1914. Where aperson can be whoever they want to be . . .Former tutor Piet Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are making a splash in colonial Cape Town....
This Beating Heart

This Beating Heart

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'Barnett's well-crafted backlist is big on emotional acuity and this novel is no different, forging from Christina's grief an insistence that we think more creatively when it comes to happiness,...
Salvage

Salvage

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The narrator of Salvage - a woman in her early thirties - has left her hectic Manhattan lifestyle for rural Virginia. Escaping a trauma suffered on the New York subway,...
Wilson

Wilson

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A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the...
The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel

The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel

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Author: Paulo CoelhoFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 204mm, 293g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2010 In The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho has returned to the important themes of...
The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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Author: Liz MooreFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 640g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER...
Mind Games

Mind Games

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The Winter Children: The Perfect Mystery to Cosy Up With

The Winter Children: The Perfect Mystery to Cosy Up With

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Author: Lulu Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The Winter Children is a haunting mystery from Lulu Taylor, author of A Winter Memory. Behind a selfless act of kindness...
The Lost Time Accidents

The Lost Time Accidents

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The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets,...
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

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Author: Soraya PalmerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024'A beautiful ode to the power of storytelling, this novel is steeped in the folklore...
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

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Author: Paul Dalla RosaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor,...
The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think

The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think

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Author: Rajasree Variyar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Oh my goodness. If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5 I would' 'One of those books that...
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding: The bestselling uplifting emotional novel from the beloved international author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding: The bestselling uplifting emotional novel from the beloved international author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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Author: Holly Ringland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The bestselling novel from the author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, a haunting and magical novel about...
Vagabonds: A gripping saga of love, hope and determination (Emma Grady trilogy, Book 3)

Vagabonds: A gripping saga of love, hope and determination (Emma Grady trilogy, Book 3)

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Author: Josephine Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Twenty-two years ago Emma Grady was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia where she bore and lost her baby...
Metro Girl

Metro Girl

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From Cornwall with Love (The Cornish Cream Tea series, Book 8)

From Cornwall with Love (The Cornish Cream Tea series, Book 8)

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Author: Cressida McLaughlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Warm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series 'Stuffed with Cornish sunshine and hope and...
Ashes in the Snow (Hugo Fischer, Book 1)

Ashes in the Snow (Hugo Fischer, Book 1)

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Author: Oriana Ramunno Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner... Auschwitz, 1943. It's snowing...
The View from Castle Rock

The View from Castle Rock

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The Killing Kind

The Killing Kind

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The End of the World Running Club: The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller

The End of the World Running Club: The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller

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Author: Adrian J Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Number One Bestseller and featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans...