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A Haunting in the Arctic

A Haunting in the Arctic

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C.J. Cooke's latest chilling tale, a Radio 2 Book Club Pick, The Book of Witching , is available to buy now! * * * Something has walked the floors of...
The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates

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'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...
Future Popes of Ireland

Future Popes of Ireland

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A big-hearted, funny and sad novel about the messiness of love, family and beliefLONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Hilarious and timely, a...
After the Lockout

After the Lockout

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An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to...
One For My Baby

One For My Baby

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New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the...
Dangling Man

Dangling Man

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The victim of a series of mix-ups which delay his induction into the army, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account...
Football Crazy

Football Crazy

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Football Crazy is a novel about Frogley Town, an impoverished north of England football club who ply their trade, just, in the Coca-Cola League Two. The club takes on a...
Family Meal: 'This novel will break your heart twice over'

Family Meal: 'This novel will break your heart twice over'

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Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe...
Everything Lost, Everything Found: Perfect for readers of The Midnight

Everything Lost, Everything Found: Perfect for readers of The Midnight

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A gorgeously written, immersive and deeply moving novel about the stories that shape us and the memories that ensnare us. In 1929, young Jack travels with his parents to Henry...
Echo of the Past

Echo of the Past

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"Echo of the Past" follows the lives of a family of doctors during 1910-1980 and the consequences the events of these times have on their relationships. The story begins when...
All the Single Ladies: If you want a laugh-out-loud, love triangle

All the Single Ladies: If you want a laugh-out-loud, love triangle

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Samantha Brooks' boyfriend has made a mistake. One his friends, family, and Sam herself know he'll live to regret. Jamie has announced he's leaving, out of the blue. Jamie is...
Things We Didn't See Coming

Things We Didn't See Coming

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'...the book as a whole is a small marvel, overflowing with ideas. Scary, funny, shocking and touching by turns, it combines the readerly pleasures of constant reorientation with the sober...
Aunt Sara's Wooden God

Aunt Sara's Wooden God

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Aunt Sara takes pride in both her sons, mixed-race William and his half-brother, Jim. While hard-working Jim remains at home to tend to the farm, William heads for the bright...
The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries

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'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History ' New Yorker Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university. Phoebe...
The Boy with the Star Tattoo: A Novel

The Boy with the Star Tattoo: A Novel

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From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to...
The Ghosts of Trappist

The Ghosts of Trappist

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"A rollicking space adventure" ( Locus ), military sci-fi meets found family space opera when the crew of Zuma's Ghost find themselves under attack, shocking truths are about to be...
Islands of Mercy: From the bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

Islands of Mercy: From the bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata

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An audacious novel about destiny and desire from the incomparable Rose Tremain 'A hell of a read' Sunday Times 'Triumphant, and beautifully told...one of the best novelists writing today' Sara...
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary

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"Alexie's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts."-- The Boston Globe...
Thai Girl

Thai Girl

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When travellers Ben and Emma split up in Thailand, Ben falls for a local masseuse and experiences the darker side of tourism, where farmers' daughters sell their bodies in Bangkok...
The Martins

The Martins

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A Parisian writer lacking inspiration finds the heroine of his next novel outside his apartment. Telling the story of octogenarian Madeleine and her family, he finds himself drawn deeper and...
Tales Of The Night

Tales Of The Night

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Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.
Three Sea Stories

Three Sea Stories

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Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest...
I Cheerfully Refuse

I Cheerfully Refuse

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Barnes & Noble's April Book Club Pick An Amazon Top 10 Editors' Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary Hub Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse...
Quicksand

Quicksand

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'A tour de force of sustained brilliance' Mail on Sunday Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship....
The Misogynist

The Misogynist

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'A telling portrait of an older man after a miserable divorce ... a well-observed portrait of middle-class London life for the older single man. It's hilariously funny' Saga 'At once...
A Hallowed Place

A Hallowed Place

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A hallowed place it may be, but No 5 Caper Court in the Inner Temple is riddled with rumour and uncertainty. The head of chambers is dying; there is a...
Respected Sir, Wedding Song, The Search

Respected Sir, Wedding Song, The Search

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A new volume of three novels-previously published separately by Anchor-by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn...
Glamorama

Glamorama

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Timeless Land

Timeless Land

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Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

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A sequel of sorts to the Booker-shortlisted THE SHADOW KING. This is an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in...
On a Night Like This

On a Night Like This

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It only takes one night to fall in love... 'So uplifting and wildly romantic' MARIAN KEYES 'Funny, engaging and sparkly' JANE FALLON 'I fell head over heels in love' BETH...
Venus Flaring

Venus Flaring

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'This is a novel about obsessional love. The fact that those involved are two women, and that their relationship is not that of lovers, but friends, only intensifies the book's...
Missing

Missing

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Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all...
Don't Make Me Laugh: A darkly funny feminist novel about power,

Don't Make Me Laugh: A darkly funny feminist novel about power,

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'A great book, an important book that will start a discussion that needs to be had...my heart was in my mouth' Marian Keyes A powerful and darkly comic story of...
Trust Exercise: From the Booker-longlisted author of Flashlight

Trust Exercise: From the Booker-longlisted author of Flashlight

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'An alchemical work that blends truth and art into a heady, addictive brew' Atlantic Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge...
Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding

Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding

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'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the...
Safe as Houses

Safe as Houses

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A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is...
The Finkler Question

The Finkler Question

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Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very...
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024 'Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure'...
The Road Rising

The Road Rising

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In a one year, daily devotional style, follow a fictional backpacker s journey of faith. Loneliness, fear and wonder confront him on the trail, as well as the demonic power...
The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van

The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van

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From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George , come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel...
Snapper

Snapper

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With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him. Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana,...
13 Rue Therese

13 Rue Therese

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An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in...
The Notebook: The love story to end all love stories

The Notebook: The love story to end all love stories

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Every so often a love story captures our hearts and becomes more than just a story - it becomes an experience to treasure and to share. THE NOTEBOOK is such...
The Brave

The Brave

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The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a...
An Act of Terror

An Act of Terror

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'An Act of Terror belongs to that small group of novels embracing a country's ethos and history in one panoptic vision... Peter Carey... Garcia Marquez... Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andre Brink must...