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Ham On Rye

Ham on Rye

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 With introduction by Roddy Doyle 'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen Charles Bukowski is one of...
Mrs S

Mrs S

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Author: K Patrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists 'Oozes with erotic tension from the start'...
Shadows Of Pecan Hollow: A Novel [Large Print]

Shadows Of Pecan Hollow: A Novel [Large Print]

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Author: Caroline Frost Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First...
Notes from a Dirty Old Man

Notes from a Dirty Old Man

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column Notes of A Dirty Old Man for the underground newspaper 'Open City'. Perennially drunk, broke and in...
A Sister's Story: Natalie Portman's book club pick (July 2022)

A Sister's Story: Natalie Portman's book club pick (July 2022)

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Author: Donatella Di Pietrantonio Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A GIRL RETURNED It's the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her...
Terms Of Inheritance: The best funny and uplifting summer beach read from the author of Emergency Exit Only for fans of Toni Jordan, Rachael Johns and Jojo Moyes

Terms Of Inheritance: The best funny and uplifting summer beach read from the author of Emergency Exit Only for fans of Toni Jordan, Rachael Johns and Jojo Moyes

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Author: Michelle Upton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Four sisters. A vast fortune. And a mother who thinks she knows best ... Where there's a will, there's a way....
Psyche and Eros: The spellbinding and hotly-anticipated Greek mythology retelling that everyone's talking about!

Psyche and Eros: The spellbinding and hotly-anticipated Greek mythology retelling that everyone's talking about!

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Author: Luna McNamara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A riotous adventure, populated by a cast of vivid, glittering characters.' Jennifer Saint 'A fabulously entertaining retelling, full of magic, humour...
Mrs S

Mrs S

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Author: K Patrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists 'Oozes with erotic tension from...
Belle Greene: She hid an incredible secret

Belle Greene: She hid an incredible secret

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Author: Alexandra Lapierre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Erudite, sharp, and worldly, she hid an incredible secret... The story told with panache by Alexandra Lapierre of one of the...
Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

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Author: Sayaka Murata Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for...
How to Kill Your Family

How to Kill Your Family

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Author: Bella Mackie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYES 'Chilling,...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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Author: Gail Honeyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times bestseller 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but...
To Battersea Park

To Battersea Park

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Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd 'Surefooted and emotionally...
Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing

Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing

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Author: Jason Aaron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian...
The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke

The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke

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Author: Tamsin Keily Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Skilfully laced with good humour and hope' - HEAT on Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living Some days you remember forever. But...
Gifts

Gifts

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Author: Laura Barnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this' TELEGRAPH 'A gorgeous festive tale' DAILY MAIL 'The...
The Book of Wonders

The Book of Wonders

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Author: Julien Sandrel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Live every day like it's your last. Thelma is the busy single mom of 12-year old Louis. When Louis is hit...
Magpie Lane

Magpie Lane

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Author: Lucy Atkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff' Guardian A 'best books of 2020' pick for BBC Radio 4 Open Book, the Guardian, the Telegraph...
Among the Ten Thousand Things

Among the Ten Thousand Things

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Author: Julia Pierpont Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His...
No One Saw It Coming

No One Saw It Coming

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Author: Susan Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Don't miss this utterly gripping and emotional thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis! Secrets lie at the heart of...
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient

The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 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 Performance

The Performance

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Author: Claire Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Quietly transformational' The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly' Patrick Gale 'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'...
Normal People: One million copies sold

Normal People: One million copies sold

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Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE' - Guardian NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WHICH WILL PREMIERE IN AUSTRALIA ON STAN ON...
Bonnie and Stan: A gorgeous, emotional love story

Bonnie and Stan: A gorgeous, emotional love story

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Author: Anna Stuart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 After 50 years together Stan still adores his wife... so why is he dating again? Bonnie and Stan are soulmates. They...
The Binding

The Binding

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Author: Bridget Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brilliant' Joanna...
A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember

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Author: Josephine Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The gripping new bestseller from the nation's favourite storyteller. Are some memories best forgotten? Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art...
Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

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Author: Michael Bracewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where...
The (Other) You: Stories

The (Other) You: Stories

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of...
Between the Assassinations

Between the Assassinations

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Author: Aravind Adiga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its...
Toto Among the Murderers: Winner of the Portico Prize 2022

Toto Among the Murderers: Winner of the Portico Prize 2022

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Author: Sally J Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have...
Cold Earth

Cold Earth

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Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 On the west coast of Greenland, a team of archaeologists searching for traces of lost Viking settlements receives news of a...
Under the Same Stars: A beautiful and moving tale of sisterhood and wilderness

Under the Same Stars: A beautiful and moving tale of sisterhood and wilderness

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Author: Alexandra Heminsley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautifully written, with such heart. Not only did it make me cry, it made me see the world in a different...
Animal Farm: The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey

Animal Farm: The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 A joint re-issue of George Orwell's most famous novels, alongside Nineteen Eighty-Four Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and...
Trespass

Trespass

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Author: Clare Clark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When your past is a lie, who are you? 'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday 'All the excitement of a...
The Snow

The Snow

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Author: Adam Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel...
Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance

Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance

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Author: John Waters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker...
Jane is Trying

Jane is Trying

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Author: Isy Suttie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Tremendous' Adam Kay 'Heart-warming' Sarah Pascoe 'So well-observed' Daisy Buchanan 'Hilarious' James Acaster 'I LOVED it' Aisling Bea 'The perfect concoction...
Scattered All Over the Earth

Scattered All Over the Earth

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Author: Yoko Tawada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...
The Sign of the Four (Collins Classics)

The Sign of the Four (Collins Classics)

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How often have I said to...
Gifts

Gifts

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Author: Laura Barnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this' TELEGRAPH 'A gorgeous festive tale' DAILY MAIL 'The...
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...
Ghost Wall

Ghost Wall

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Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who hope to uncover evidence of...
White Houses

White Houses

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena...
Caesar & Hussein: Two Classic Novels from the Author of MASTER AND COMMANDER

Caesar & Hussein: Two Classic Novels from the Author of MASTER AND COMMANDER

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Author: Patrick O'Brian Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 400 In Caesar and Hussein, Patrick O'Brian's two debut novels appear in one volume for the first time, providing a...
Invitation To The Waltz

Invitation To The Waltz

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Author: Rosamond Lehmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 On her seventeenth birthday, Olivia Curtis receives: a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note and a...
Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

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Author: Elizabeth Strout Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating...
Against All Gods: The Age of Bronze: Book 1

Against All Gods: The Age of Bronze: Book 1

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Author: Miles Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The tyranny of the gods is absolute, and they are capricious, malevolent and almost all-powerful, playing cruel games with the fates...
Troubles in Paradise: Volume 3

Troubles in Paradise: Volume 3

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Author: Elin Hilderbrand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Travel to the bright Caribbean for love, romance, and passion in this sizzling summer read from a nationally bestselling author and...