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The story of Octave, one of the new Masters of the Universe. Octave seems to have everything going for him: a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish...
The Bad Mother's Handbook

The Bad Mother's Handbook

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The story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - narrated from their separate perspectives, and showing the complex relationships that exist between them
The Sandcastle Girls

The Sandcastle Girls

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant , here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the...
Wild Houses

Wild Houses

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It's the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change - the thrilling, riotous debut novel from the Observer Best New Novelist. As Ballina prepares for its...
Mercy Among the Children

Mercy Among the Children

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Joint winner (with Michael Ondaajte's Anil's Ghost) of the Giller Prize, Mercy Among the Children is reckoned by many to be the finest Canadian novel of 2000. The novel tells...
Disobedience

Disobedience

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Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2006, this is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. Ronit has left London and transformed...
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

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'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy...
Caught In A Story

Caught In A Story

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An anthology of 20 contemporary fairy tales which provide a subversive, sidelong glance at ourselves and the world. The authors include A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges,...
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5

Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5

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An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from...
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

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An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta - exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who...
Morgan's Passing

Morgan's Passing

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A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting...
By Night in Chile

By Night in Chile

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This highly imaginative novella is a masterpiece of its type and one of the finest early works by legendary Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano. During the course of a single night,...
The Bird Woman

The Bird Woman

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The much anticipated second novel from prize-winning Irish poet and novelist, Kerry Hardie. 'The Bird Woman' is a moving account of two marriages, a gift that feels like a curse,...
No Bones

No Bones

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel,...
Stone Arabia

Stone Arabia

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Denise and Nik grew up in the '70s LA music scene. Nik - handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting - was a star on the rise. Denise, his...
Love and the Platypus

Love and the Platypus

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Which is the greater mystery- the breeding habits of the platypus or the workings of the human heart? In 1883 young British naturalist William Caldwell arrives in Australia with a...
Awakening of Spies

Awakening of Spies

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Thomas Dylan is an unlikely spy. Rejected by MI6 he joins the Ministry of Defence where his first mission is a total failure. Unexpectedly he is then sent to Rio...
The Remainder

The Remainder

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Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of...
Boy Parts

Boy Parts

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Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she...
The Apartment in Rome

The Apartment in Rome

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Ambitious art photographer Gina lives a glamorous life in bustling Rome. Her edgy shots of refugees have been receiving rave reviews and commissions for future work, and things in her...
Fame and Fortune

Fame and Fortune

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With a rich cast, a fast-moving story line, and dialogue that displays all the wit and panache for which Frederic Raphael is famous, Fame and Fortune - recently dramatised on...
When I Was Five I Killed Myself

When I Was Five I Killed Myself

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'Burton Rembrandt is a misunderstood little boy. A sensitive eight-year-old Burt is frightened by many things in the world around him... When I Was Five I Killed Myself is a...
Confessions of a Clay Man

Confessions of a Clay Man

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Set in a Black Sea resort in Georgia in the dying days of the Soviet Empire, this is the story of Bronsky, a medical researcher haunted by the fate of...
The Falling Women

The Falling Women

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This novel dramatises a desert journey in which two women confront ancient and modern myths, ranging from the Garden of Eden to the mystique of epilepsy, and the mysteries of...
A Suitable Marriage/An Unwilling Conquest/A Comfortable Wife

A Suitable Marriage/An Unwilling Conquest/A Comfortable Wife

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An Unwilling Conquest A successful horse breeder and self-proclaimed rake, Harry Lester samples women like wines. But after having his heart trampled upon by someone he actually loved, he has...
The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

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Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual...
The Spotted Skin

The Spotted Skin

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Shortlisted, Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers, 1999 As the early dragonflies of the Dry chase each other, Cressida catches one. She cannot feel the filaments, although she can see...
Striped Holes

Striped Holes

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Black Roses

Black Roses

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Terrifying secrets, torn loyalties, love versus duty, the gripping story of a young actress caught up in highly dangerous events in 1930s Berlin... Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe...
The Wish List

The Wish List

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Like any married couple, Allie and Tony have had their fair share of heartache. But when Tony's actions force Allie and her young sons out of their home, things take...
Things We Didn't See Coming

Things We Didn't See Coming

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Richly imagined, dark, and darkly comic, Things We Didn't See Coming follows a man over three decades as he tries to survive - and to retain his humanity - in...
Losing You

Losing You

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Lauren Scott is bright, gifted and beautiful. At eighteen, she has her whole life ahead of her. Oliver Lomax is a young man full of promise, despite the shadow his...
The Empress

The Empress

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"As Constantinople falls to the Crusaders in 1204, one woman is caught up in the bloodshed" "Spoilt, imperious and proud, Princess Agnes of France is delighted to be marrying the...
About the Author

About the Author

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Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing an autobiographical novel that will help him escape from his life as a penniless bookstore stockboy in upper...
The Dragon in the Bookshop

The Dragon in the Bookshop

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An old Polish city fizzes with fear. The townsfolk are at the mercy of a dragon who lurks in the cave below the castle... Konrad's dad always used to say,...
The Switch

The Switch

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Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it's time they swapped places... When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical...
My Coney Island Baby

My Coney Island Baby

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On a bitterly cold winter's afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendez-vous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island...
The Library of Heartbeats: A sweeping, emotional novel set in Japan

The Library of Heartbeats: A sweeping, emotional novel set in Japan

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From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World : a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real...
Hunted: BookShots

Hunted: BookShots

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James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his...
Deep River

Deep River

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In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are...
Bride Squad Runaway: The perfect holiday read - witty, wise and

Bride Squad Runaway: The perfect holiday read - witty, wise and

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'Tu es belle - wow!' It should be the perfect moment. A sunny day at Vintage Brides, and Ava O'Hara is twirling in her wedding dress. Super-hot Stefan likes what...
Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream: A delightful cosy tale to curl up with

Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream: A delightful cosy tale to curl up with

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'Just perfect for a relaxing evening curled up in front of the fire' - Writing Tips Oasis Curl up with this absolutely gorgeous cosy read, perfect for fans of Heidi...
Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel

Love Letters: A Rose Harbor Novel

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One love letter can change everything... The new Rose Harbor novel from the international bestselling author of Rose Harbor in Bloom and Blossom Street Brides. Ellie travels to Rose Harbor...
Inside

Inside

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1996: Grace, a psychiatrist, juggles a suicidal boyfriend and a young patient's impending abortion. 2002: Annie, a struggling actress, takes pity on a homeless girl and invites her into her...