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A Party in San Niccolo

A Party in San Niccolo

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An entrancing story that is one of the most absorbing examinations of the English in Italy since A Room With A View. Set during one week in springtime Florence, A...
My Idea of Fun

My Idea of Fun

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The Tiger

The Tiger

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Enchantment

Enchantment

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Cal

Cal

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A haunting love story set against the grim backdrop of fear and violence in Northern Ireland. Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Cal tells the story of a...
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

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Bold, touching and very, very funny - a debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man Nathaniel Piven is a rising star...
Under The Frog

Under The Frog

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A tragicomic picaresque about two basketball players travelling through war-torn Hungary in pursuit of food, sex and adventure. Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian...
Little Sister

Little Sister

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Last Dance with Valentino

Last Dance with Valentino

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If you like The Artist you'll love Daisy Waugh's Last Dance with Valentino. One night. One dance. One love to last a lifetime. 1916. Leaving war-ravaged London, Jenny Doyle sets...
With My Body

With My Body

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For fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY; the author of sensational bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE returns with a powerful tale of marriage and desire. Smothered by marriage and family,...
The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

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Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is...
A Place Called Here

A Place Called Here

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The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now. Ever since the day her...
Bee Season

Bee Season

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A kooky, quirky, cheeky US debut. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her...
Washington and Caesar

Washington and Caesar

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George Washington's slave Caesar escapes to fight for the British against his former master - in this action-packed historical adventure set against the spectacular background of the American Revolution. In...
The Deep End of the Ocean

The Deep End of the Ocean

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'A blockbuster...a rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel. Readers will find this compelling and heartbreaking story -- sure to be compared to The Good Mother -- impossible to put...
Wicked Women

Wicked Women

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Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...
Sweetbitter: 2016

Sweetbitter: 2016

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'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot...
Before You

Before You

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When life in the fast lane threatens to implode...Melanie Hunt's job working for the Delta racing team means she is constantly rubbing shoulders with Formula One superstars in glamorous locations...
The Way Back

The Way Back

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Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most...
Rain Music

Rain Music

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From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out now. "Rain Music is utterly compelling." West Australian "Morrissey's beautifully crafted story celebrates history and nature." Australian Women's Weekly Rain Music...
WENLING'S

WENLING'S

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From the winner of St Jordi Prize. The perfect combination of literary fiction & feminist journalism. A warm-hearted ode to female friendship. "Set in vibrant, multilingual Barcelona, Ruiz Pala's Wenling's...
Firelands

Firelands

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The winter of 1799 is falling fast on the small Ohio Territory settlement of Hugh's Lick. Food is scarce, and relations with the Delaware tribe are strained, but things are...
Burning Angels

Burning Angels

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A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood. A jungle island overrun by rabid primates - escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone. A massive seaplane...
Love in the Country

Love in the Country

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Friendship, a newcomer - and romance ... from the author of THE VILLAGE GREEN AFFAIR. When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. Keen to settle...
Weightless

Weightless

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Prep meets The Virgin Suicides in a haunting c oming-of-age story for the digital generation and an examination of the hypocrisy of small town life, where no one quite knows...
The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol

The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol

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Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from...
In This House

In This House

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Tell Me Something: Escape to sun-drenched Italy with a hit romantic

Tell Me Something: Escape to sun-drenched Italy with a hit romantic

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When Elizabeth and her Italian husband Roberto decide to leave London for romantic Italy and his family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help boost her chances of...
The Turning Point: A breath-taking novel of love, deceit and desire

The Turning Point: A breath-taking novel of love, deceit and desire

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A gripping novel of passion, intrigue and ambition, set against the backdrop of 1950s Britain in the popular tradition of Kate Morton. Cambridge, 1952. When Ellen Kingsley embarks upon an...
The Camel Bookmobile

The Camel Bookmobile

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Once a fortnight, the nomadic settlement of Madidima, set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is the...
An Honourable Englishman

An Honourable Englishman

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An Englishman's home is his castle. Or at least it should be. But as Anthony Anscombe surveys Winchford Priory, his beautiful Elizabethan house in Oxfordshire, lurking in the village are...
Let it Shine

Let it Shine

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Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world except for her greedy, bitter...
Second Time Around

Second Time Around

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Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-Stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes, but his body is not found....
RPM

RPM

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Small towns don't feel small when you grow up there. That comes later. The world as you know it seems wide. You feel close to it, the smells, the seasons,...
Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis

Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis

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The Darker Proof , an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim. This updated version, which includes stories by Adam...
New York Valentine: (Annie Valentine Book 5)

New York Valentine: (Annie Valentine Book 5)

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Her true love is in London but her new love is New York!This fun, fashion-packed novel is perfect for fans of Sex and the City and Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series...
Lola's Secret: A Novel

Lola's Secret: A Novel

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Praised as "Australia's answer to Maeve Binchy, a modern-day Jane Austen" ( The Sun Herald , Australia), Monica McInerney, internationally bestselling author of The Alphabet Sisters , returns with a...
House Rules

House Rules

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Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger's. He is locked in his own world...
Power of the Sword

Power of the Sword

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Power of the Sword is the story of an intense sibling rivalry in war-torn South Africa from bestselling author, Wilbur Smith. They were half-brothers, raised in different worlds in the...