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Ithaca: The exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth

Ithaca: The exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth

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Author: Claire North Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Claire North brings a powerful, fresh and unflinching voice to ancient myth - darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking' Jennifer Saint, author...
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 231 Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life...
Carry on, Jeeves

Carry on, Jeeves

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Author: P.G. Wodehouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 A classic collection of Jeeves and Wooster stories from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century ÔI expect...
The Sicilian

The Sicilian

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Author: Mario Puzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to...
The Sweet Remnants of Summer

The Sweet Remnants of Summer

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband,...
Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing

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Author: P.G. Wodehouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 This is a Jeeves and Wooster novel. Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves...
My Mother's Daughter

My Mother's Daughter

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Author: Ann O'Loughlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 County Wicklow, Ireland. Margo has just lost her husband Conor and is grieving his passing, unsure how she and her daughter...
The Dud Avocado

The Dud Avocado

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Author: Elaine Dundy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living....
The Sentence: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

The Sentence: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

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Author: Louise Erdrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ----------------------------------------------------- In this stunning and timely...
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

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Author: Paul Dalla Rosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020...
The Maidens: The Dark Academia Thriller from the author of TikTok sensation The Silent Patient

The Maidens: The Dark Academia Thriller from the author of TikTok sensation The Silent Patient

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Author: Alex Michaelides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together...
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...
The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

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Author: Brit Bennett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An...
Other Women: The sparkling new page-turner about real, messy life that has readers gripped

Other Women: The sparkling new page-turner about real, messy life that has readers gripped

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Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES 'This is Cathy Kelly on top form writing about warm,...
Tell Me How to Be: A beautifully moving story of family and first love

Tell Me How to Be: A beautifully moving story of family and first love

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Author: Neel Patel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH 'I really loved this book' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World...
A Passage North

A Passage North

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Author: Anuk Arudpragasam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world...
The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Veronica Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Gorgeous. A joy to read from start to finish' JILL MANSELL 'An exquisite story bursting at the seams with summer, hope...
Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King

Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King

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Author: Deepti Kapoor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 HIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023 'Ill-fated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

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Author: Shehan Karunatilaka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa...
Dogs of Summer: A sultry, simmering story of girlhood and an international sensation

Dogs of Summer: A sultry, simmering story of girlhood and an international sensation

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Author: Andrea Abreu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Translated by Julia Sanches. It is June and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood...
The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a...
Child of God

Child of God

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Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of...
The Candy House

The Candy House

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for...
The Dreamers

The Dreamers

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Author: Gilbert Adair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student...
The Butterfly Lampshade

The Butterfly Lampshade

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Author: Aimee Bender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of...
The Dreamers

The Dreamers

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Author: Gilbert Adair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student...
The Lighthouse Witches

The Lighthouse Witches

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Author: C.J. Cooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Don't miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . 'Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of...
Scary Monsters: Winner of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Fiction Prize

Scary Monsters: Winner of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Fiction Prize

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Author: Michelle de Kretser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *** WINNER OF THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO FICTION PRIZE*** ONE OF SLATE'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Every page of...
Love & Virtue: 'The new Sally Rooney - you're certain of it by the end of page one' Meg Mason

Love & Virtue: 'The new Sally Rooney - you're certain of it by the end of page one' Meg Mason

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Author: Diana Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows her will be compared - or hope to be.'...
The Amber Fury: 'I loved it' Madeline Miller

The Amber Fury: 'I loved it' Madeline Miller

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Author: Natalie Haynes (Writer / Broadcaster) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,...
The Lido: The uplifting, feel-good Sunday Times bestseller about the power of friendship and community

The Lido: The uplifting, feel-good Sunday Times bestseller about the power of friendship and community

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Author: Libby Page Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Meet Rosemary, 86, and Kate, 26: dreamers, campaigners, outdoor swimmers... Rosemary has lived in Brixton...
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

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Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A compulsively readable tale, all the better for being set in one of the most secretive countries in the world. In...
A Loving, Faithful Animal

A Loving, Faithful Animal

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Author: Josephine Rowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature. New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious...
The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Veronica Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Gorgeous. A joy to read from start to finish' JILL MANSELL 'An exquisite story bursting at the seams with summer, hope...
How Beautiful We Were

How Beautiful We Were

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Author: Imbolo Mbue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A formidable storyteller' - Jonathan Franzen Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story...
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Sophie Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021 Featuring on...
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the...
The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

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Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they...
The Republic of False Truths

The Republic of False Truths

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Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Glorious' Observer 'Amazing' Andre Aciman 'Masterly' Sunday Times 'Blistering' Financial Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his...
The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys -...
The Queens Of Sarmiento Park

The Queens Of Sarmiento Park

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Author: Camila Sosa Villada Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful novel about violence,...
Labyrinth

Labyrinth

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 Three secrets. Two women. One Grail . . . 10th Anniversary Edition of the spellbinding No. 1 bestselling novel from the...
Summer People: The captivating and page-turning poolside read you don't want to miss in 2023!

Summer People: The captivating and page-turning poolside read you don't want to miss in 2023!

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Author: Julie Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A perfect poolside page-turner' CLOSER 'Tender, complex, complicated and passionate. Stunning.' VERONICA HENRY 'So evocative. A great summer read!' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING...
Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts

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Author: Celeste Ng Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290 From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heartwrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and...
Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Unforgettable' Celeste Ng 'One hell of a book' Stylist 'Heartbreaking and utterly immersive' Kirsty Capes 'Deeply moving' AJ Pearce 'Wonderful' Cathy...
The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

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Author: Ira Levin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The women of Stepford are not all that they seem... All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent,...
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Author: Chibundu Onuzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
The Book of Longings: From the author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

The Book of Longings: From the author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

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Author: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE New York Times BESTSELLER The stunning bestseller about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from author...