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The Wallcreeper

The Wallcreeper

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...
Say Say Say

Say Say Say

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Author: Lila Savage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student have...
Transit

Transit

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Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of...
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 Glorious Heresies: Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016

The Glorious Heresies: Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016

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Author: Lisa McInerney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do...
The Testimony

The Testimony

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Author: James Smythe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would...
A Drop of Patience

A Drop of Patience

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Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...
A River Called Time

A River Called Time

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Author: Courttia Newland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite,...
The Stolen Child

The Stolen Child

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Author: Sanjida Kay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Zoe and Ollie Morley tried for years to have a baby and couldn't. They turned to adoption and their...
Stasi Wolf A Gripping New Thriller for Fans of Child 44

Stasi Wolf A Gripping New Thriller for Fans of Child 44

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Author: David Young Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent...
Don't Look At Me Like That

Don't Look At Me Like That

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Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend,...
Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay

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Author: Steph Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? 'Masterful.' - Ruth...
About That Night

About That Night

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Author: Elaine Bedell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The most brilliant book. I couldn't put it down' Claudia Winkleman 'Brilliantly entertaining' SUNDAY MIRROR 'Gripping' DAILY MAIL 'Fun,...
Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

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Author: Gina LaManna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Up there with BIG LITTLE LIES and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' Claire Allan 'Divinely original . . . this rollicking tale...
I'm Right Here

I'm Right Here

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Author: Yvonne Cassidy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 For readers who loved The Lovely Bones, The Help and The Secret Life of Bees, I'M RIGHT HERE is...
Between Sisters: A warm, wise story about family and friendship from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller

Between Sisters: A warm, wise story about family and friendship from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Meet the women of Delaney Square: Coco and Cassie haven't seen their mother since she walked out when they...
Cathedral

Cathedral

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Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 All the stories in Cathedral are different; some funny, some hauntingly sad. Each has its own individual and curious...
The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

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Author: William Nicholson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart -...
The Last Children of Tokyo

The Last Children of Tokyo

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Author: Yoko Tawada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the...
My Name is Adam: Children of the Ghetto Volume I

My Name is Adam: Children of the Ghetto Volume I

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Author: Elias Khoury Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation,...
Havisham

Havisham

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Author: Ronald Frame Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 There was a delicate tracery of gold foil on the back of the dress. How strange that such a...
Two Book Pack - The Tiger Catcher & A Beggar's Kingdon

Two Book Pack - The Tiger Catcher & A Beggar's Kingdon

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A wrapped two paperback pack of Paullina Simmons novels
Journey to the Stone Country

Journey to the Stone Country

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The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)

The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)

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Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in...
Maggie's Tree

Maggie's Tree

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Author: Julie Walters Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling. Helena is the toast of Broadway. Maggie is an extremely beautiful...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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Land of the Living

Land of the Living

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Author: Georgina Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by...
The Invisible Circus

The Invisible Circus

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s...
Presidents Gardens

Presidents Gardens

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Author: Muhsin Al-Ramli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the...
Strangers with the Same Dream: From the Man Booker Longlisted author of Far to Go

Strangers with the Same Dream: From the Man Booker Longlisted author of Far to Go

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Author: Alison Pick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From Alison Pick, Booker Prize longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding...
Hows Your Father

Hows Your Father

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Author: Rose Boyt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I am smiling. It ain't just me listening to our Maggie. Her voice carries all over the flats. I...
A Double Life Psychological suspense has a new reigning queen

A Double Life Psychological suspense has a new reigning queen

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Author: Flynn Berry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A THRILLING PAGE-TURNER' Paula Hawkins Some wounds need more than time. They crave revenge. Claire's father is a privileged...
The Night Guest

The Night Guest

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Author: Fiona McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the inaugural Voss Literary Prize Joint winner of the Barbara...
Reeling

Reeling

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Author: Lola Lafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 13-year-old Chloe lives a drab existence with her parents in a suburb of Paris. Her life changes when she...
Reproduction

Reproduction

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Author: Ian Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book...
The Summer Visitors

The Summer Visitors

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Author: Fiona O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'One of the smartest writers of popular fiction around.' Irish Independent Summer has arrived in Ballyanna, and so too...
The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding

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Author: Chad Harbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out...
The Dress: A magical feel-good story of family, romance and vintage fashion

The Dress: A magical feel-good story of family, romance and vintage fashion

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Author: Sophie Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Meet Ella and her mother Fabbia Moreno who arrive in York, one cold January day, to set up their...
The American Girl

The American Girl

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Author: Rachael English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 *No.1 bestseller* From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O'Farrell comes...
The Observations

The Observations

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Author: Jane Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine...
Ella Morris: A Novel

Ella Morris: A Novel

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Author: John David Morley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 'This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss...
The Enlightenment of Bees

The Enlightenment of Bees

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Author: Rachel Linden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In a romantic adventure across the globe, The Enlightenment of Bees beautifully explores what it means to find the...
The Colour of Bee Larkhams Murder

The Colour of Bee Larkhams Murder

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Author: Sarah J. Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues? There are three things you need...
Purity

Purity

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is....
The Aerodynamics of Pork

The Aerodynamics of Pork

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Author: Patrick Gale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK is an irresistible novel of love, music and comedy - 'A master storyteller' Independent on...
Willow Trees don't Weep

Willow Trees don't Weep

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Author: Fadia Faqir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself. Najwa's father left...
Madness is Better than Defeat

Madness is Better than Defeat

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Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending...
Frog Music

Frog Music

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