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Still Life

Still Life

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Author: Sarah Winman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton, author of...
Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...
Plain Bad Heroines

Plain Bad Heroines

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Author: Emily M. Danforth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief' SARAH WATERS 'Beguilingly clever, very sexy and...
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This classic novel about the frailty of human beauty and sensual experience and the futility of vanity remains as...
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard

The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard

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Author: Shirley Hazzard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People...
Bel Canto

Bel Canto

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Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times...
The Book of Two Ways

The Book of Two Ways

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Author: Jodi Picoult Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dawn Edelstein knows everything there is to know about dying. She specialises in helping her clients make peace with the end...
The Viennese Girl

The Viennese Girl

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Author: Jenny Lecoat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only...
The May Bride

The May Bride

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Author: Suzannah Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol...
Go Set a Watchman

Go Set a Watchman

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Harper Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From Harper Lee comes a...
Left Neglected

Left Neglected

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Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but...
A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother

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Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough...
The First Man

The First Man

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...
Selection Day

Selection Day

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Author: Aravind Adiga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "The most exciting novelist writing in English today" A. N. Wilson Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at...
Still Alice

Still Alice

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Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy...
Born of No Woman: The Word-Of-Mouth International Bestseller

Born of No Woman: The Word-Of-Mouth International Bestseller

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Author: Franck Bouysse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Nineteenth-century rural France. Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby...
The Cat's Table

The Cat's Table

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Michael Ondaatje Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the early 1950s, an...
Ask Me Anything: The quirky, life-affirming love story of the year

Ask Me Anything: The quirky, life-affirming love story of the year

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Author: P. Z. Reizin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Very clever and great fun' Kate Eberlen, author of Miss You Wouldn't it be great, if everyone had a team...
The Lucky Escape

The Lucky Escape

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Author: Laura Jane Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'It whisked me away on a much-needed holiday' Beth O'Leary 'I can't remember the last time a book made me...
Life Of Pi

Life Of Pi

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Yann Martel Format: Paperback...
The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1

The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Graeme Simsion Format: Paperback...
The Hummingbird: 'Magnificent' (Guardian)

The Hummingbird: 'Magnificent' (Guardian)

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Author: Sandro Veronesi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'The kind of novel summer is made for:...
Girl in the Walls

Girl in the Walls

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Author: A.J. Gnuse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author...
A Sweet Obscurity

A Sweet Obscurity

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Author: Patrick Gale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Bittersweet and startling, A SWEET OBSCURITY is a novel of childhood, love and the consequences of how lives are...
Contacts

Contacts

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Author: Mark Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 One man's last journey. One hundred and fifty-eight chances to save his life. The unforgettable new book from award-winning writer and...
The Versions of Us: The Number One bestseller

The Versions of Us: The Number One bestseller

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Author: Laura Barnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What if you had said yes . . . ? Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their...
The Taste of Summer

The Taste of Summer

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Author: Kate Lord Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every summer, in a rambling castle in Kenmare, south west Ireland, the TV crews descend to film the nation's favourite...
Good Hope Road

Good Hope Road

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Author: Sarita Mandanna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Jim Stonebridge lives a solitary life with his father, a haunted man, on an apple estate in deepest Vermont. The year...
The Secrets Between Us: A Novel

The Secrets Between Us: A Novel

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Author: Thrity Umrigar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 "A powerful, urgent novel that wields issues of gender and class like a blade. . . . This intergenerational novel asks...
Good Morning, Midnight: NOW THE MAJOR NETFLIX FILM 'THE MIDNIGHT SKY'

Good Morning, Midnight: NOW THE MAJOR NETFLIX FILM 'THE MIDNIGHT SKY'

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Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora will appreciate the Brooks-Dalton's exquisite exploration of relationships.'...
The Witcher - Sword of Destiny

The Witcher - Sword of Destiny

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Author: Andrzej Sapkowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Geralt the Witcher - revered and hated - holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired...
The Word Exchange

The Word Exchange

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Author: Alena Graedon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Spine-tingling' New York Times 'A fast-paced, thrill-a-minute debut novel' New Yorker 'Graedon knows how to ratchet up mystery' Esquire WORDS ARE...
The Road To Winter

The Road To Winter

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Author: Mark Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn...
In the Castle of My Skin

In the Castle of My Skin

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Author: George Lamming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A powerful autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Caribbean writers of the 20th century...
Black Water

Black Water

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Author: Louise Doughty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut halfway up a mountain in Bali, listening to the rain on...
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

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Author: Anna North Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'If The Girl on the Train was the woman of 2015, then Sophie Stark is this year's model. Anna North's novel,...
The Quiet Side of Passion

The Quiet Side of Passion

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE TWELFTH INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIES It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again...
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
High Fidelity

High Fidelity

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Author: Nick Hornby Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories

An Elegy for Easterly: Faber Stories

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Author: Petina Gappah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said,...
A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove

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Author: Fredrik Backman Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
The Man I Think I Know: A feel-good, uplifting story of the most unlikely friendship

The Man I Think I Know: A feel-good, uplifting story of the most unlikely friendship

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Author: Mike Gayle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming.' Ruth Hogan 'Mike Gayle is...
Nine Tailors

Nine Tailors

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Author: Dorothy Sayers Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
The Peach Keeper

The Peach Keeper

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Author: Sarah Addison Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Welcome to Walls of Water, North Carolina, a place where secrets run thicker than the town's famous fog. Once upon...
Little Boxes

Little Boxes

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Author: Cecilia Knapp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST 'Unmissable' STYLIST 'A really gripping read' TIMES RADIO 'Little Boxes...
Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park

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Author: Rainbow Rowell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic...
Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Do Me No Harm: A Heart-Pounding Psychological Thriller

Do Me No Harm: A Heart-Pounding Psychological Thriller

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Author: Julie Corbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A FAMILY HELD TOGETHER BY LIES BUT ABOUT TO BE TORN APART BY A DEVASTATING SECRET . . . When her...