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The Furthest Station: A Rivers of London Novella

The Furthest Station: A Rivers of London Novella

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A Rivers of London novella, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call....
Beware the Woman: The twisty, unputdownable new thriller about family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author

Beware the Woman: The twisty, unputdownable new thriller about family

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From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, a chilling and compulsive novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Skip to the End

Skip to the End

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'Joyful, wise and enormously good fun' TASMINA PERRY       'An utterly gorgeous story that had me totally hooked. Without a doubt the best book I've read this year'...
Kill-Devil And Water: From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

Kill-Devil And Water: From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

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London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods.Pyke, still grieving over the death of his...
Silent City

Silent City

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From the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive.'A provocative...
The Spring of Kasper Meier

The Spring of Kasper Meier

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Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco....
Indemnity Only: V.I. Warshawski 1

Indemnity Only: V.I. Warshawski 1

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Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies and tells V I Warshawski he s the prominent banker John Thayer,...
Seeing Red

Seeing Red

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Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen...
All Grown Up

All Grown Up

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Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she...
The North Shore: 'An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories' Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The North Shore: 'An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and

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'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN     'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH     'A beautiful, moving, unexpected...
A Natural Curiosity

A Natural Curiosity

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January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and...
The Seaplane on Final Approach

The Seaplane on Final Approach

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An electrifying debut novel about a young woman and her desire for sleaze, whose idyllic summer on a remote Alaskan homestead takes a disturbing turn."Sexy and dark and strange and...
Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies

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The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. When her estranged, difficult brother...
Sweetest Scoundrel

Sweetest Scoundrel

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SHE'S TAKING CHARGEPrim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's...
Wound

Wound

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A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
Only the Animals

Only the Animals

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  Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human.The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing...
Summer Blonde

Summer Blonde

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The stories in Summer Blonde are longer explorations of the same themes of his earlier collection, Sleepwalk - haunting and spare tales of the loneliness and bleak humour of modern...
Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has spies everywhere.

Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has

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'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL---Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens...
Weather

Weather

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A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, BIG ISSUE, VANITY FAIR, DAZEDAND i-D MAGAZINELizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is already overwhelmed with the crises of daily...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a...
Practice

Practice

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Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student...
Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

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In September 1939, World War Two is declared. For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe, the...
Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner about fame, friendship and long-buried secrets

Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner

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SHE WAS THE NEXT BIG THING . . . UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED'Exciting and at times heart-breaking, this book is a must for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six' CARMEL...
Like A House On Fire: 'Brilliantly funny - I loved it' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare

Like A House On Fire: 'Brilliantly funny - I loved it' Beth O'Leary,

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'Joyously wicked... I loved it' RUTH JONES'Warm, witty & brilliantly realised' DAILY MAIL'Part Fleabag, part Agatha Christie' JOSIE SILVERALL STELLA AND GEORGE HAVE TO DO IS...Hide their breakupAfter a series...
Witch You Weren't Here: A warm and cosy witchy romance to curl up with this festive season

Witch You Weren't Here: A warm and cosy witchy romance to curl up with

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'It has everything I love in a romantasy. I absolutely adored it' CARRIE ELKS'Fun, sweet and sexy' SARAH HAWLEY'A magical rollercoaster which will charm the hex out of the hardest...
Women Talking Dirty

Women Talking Dirty

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Ellen Quinn kept her sanity in the suffocating Edinburgh suburb where she grew up by imagining it was a hotbed of intrigue. A neglected child, she's still looking for love...
Limelight: The new novel from the author of Insatiable

Limelight: The new novel from the author of Insatiable

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This good girl is naked on the internet... By day, Frankie lives an ordinary life: doting daughter, supportive sister, adoring aunt and (mostly) capable colleague. The only trouble is that...
Girlfriend on Mars

Girlfriend on Mars

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'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in...
Nothing Belongs to You

Nothing Belongs to You

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"A novel of exceptional emotional force" John Self, Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her...
Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

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Born Into This

Born Into This

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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. A description of our secondhand...
Friends Don't Lie: the emotionally gripping page turner about secrets between friends

Friends Don't Lie: the emotionally gripping page turner about [...]

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'Riveting, thought-provoking, and impeccably written. I loved it' Carol Mason'This twisty tale explores the dark side of friendship and is just asking to be demolished in the back garden with...
A Thousand Miles to Graceland

A Thousand Miles to Graceland

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Grace Johnson can't escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot-until her husband announces he's done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation . . ....
Liar

Liar

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If being old meant making up things so you wouldn't be alone, then it really wasn't very different from being seventeen.Nofar is just an average teenage girl - so average,...
Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

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'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month 'Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping...
Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of In Our Mad and Furious City

Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted [...]

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'A quicksilver astonishment of a book. Just read it' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'A rollercoaster coming of age picaresque' Observer'A provocative powder keg. So compelling' TimesAn exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and...
The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good book to curl up with this Autumn

The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good [...]

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?? FALL IN LOVE WITH FOUR STRANGERS WHO MIGHT JUST FIND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT... ?? 'Full of heart' LUCY GILMORE'The cast is wonderful. I thoroughly...
The Summer Without Men

The Summer Without Men

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'An astoundingly joyful read . . . a book that shines with intellectual curiosity and emotional integrity' Guardian'By turns funny, moving and...
Father of the Rain

Father of the Rain

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Your name is Daley Amory. Your parents are divorced. Your mother is building a new life; your father seeking solace in the drinks cabinet. At 18-years-old you finally escape his...
Waking Lions

Waking Lions

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Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that...
Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and Judy Book Club selection

Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and [...]

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DON'T MISS MIKE'S BRAND NEW NOVEL, A SONG OF ME AND YOU - AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro***Strangers living worlds apart.Strangers...
The Long Song: Now A Major BBC Drama

The Long Song: Now A Major BBC Drama

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Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is...
Small Acts of Kindness: The new poignant and uplifting novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Caroline Day

Small Acts of Kindness: The new poignant and uplifting novel [...]

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Kiki grew up in New Zealand, dreaming of one day going to Glastonbury Festival. Now, mourning the loss of her beloved Yaya - the woman who raised her - she...
One Girl Began

One Girl Began

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'A beautiful novel . . . reminds us that our streets are thick with history'ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN'Both moving and addictive'JOANNA BRISCOE'Terrific'FRANCES QUINNTHREE WOMEN. ONE BUILDING. 111 YEARS . . .East...
While We Were Burning

While We Were Burning

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'Patricia's shoes. That's what I'd heard that morning, echoing outside of my bathroom window.'After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs spirals out of...
Island Songs

Island Songs

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"This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else" The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney...
Ostrich

Ostrich

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Alex's parents know something he doesn't. They know what's happening inside his head. Alex is more interested in what's happening outside it. He has homework to do and a marriage...
Her Mother's Daughter

Her Mother's Daughter

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1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the...