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The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream

The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream

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Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the...
Mrs S

Mrs S

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Author: K Patrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists 'Oozes with erotic tension from...
How to Kill Your Family

How to Kill Your Family

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Author: Bella Mackie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYES 'Chilling,...
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

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Author: Jacob Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters...
The Book of Goose

The Book of Goose

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Author: Yiyun Li Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively...
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie,...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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Author: Gail Honeyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times bestseller 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but...
Still Life

Still Life

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Author: Sarah Winman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021...
A Passage North

A Passage North

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Author: Anuk Arudpragasam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world...
Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

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Author: Shehan Karunatilaka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa...
The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a...
Child of God

Child of God

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Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of...
All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
The Binding

The Binding

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Author: Bridget Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brilliant' Joanna...
The God of Small Things (Collins Modern Classics)

The God of Small Things (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly...
Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

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Author: Jesse Sutanto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 'Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to...
The Dreamers

The Dreamers

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Author: Gilbert Adair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student...
Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...
The Lighthouse Witches

The Lighthouse Witches

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Author: C.J. Cooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Don't miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . 'Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of...
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient

The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient

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Author: Alex Michaelides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together...
The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Impulse Purchase: The unmissable heartwarming and uplifting read for 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Veronica Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Gorgeous. A joy to read from start to finish' JILL MANSELL 'An exquisite story bursting at the seams with summer, hope...
Normal People: One million copies sold

Normal People: One million copies sold

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Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE' - Guardian NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WHICH WILL PREMIERE IN AUSTRALIA ON STAN ON...
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Sophie Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021 Featuring on...
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the...
The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

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Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they...
One Night With You

One Night With You

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Author: Laura Jane Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Sexy, fun and full of heart.' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare 'A charming, uplifting contemporary romance - this is...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of...
The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys -...
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama

The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama

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Author: Walter Tevis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her...
A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember

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Author: Josephine Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The gripping new bestseller from the nation's favourite storyteller. Are some memories best forgotten? Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art...
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It: A John Murray Original

An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It: A John Murray Original

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Author: Jessie Greengrass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016...
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Big-hearted, earthy and funny... A rattlingly good story' Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel When Nikki takes a creative...
Next in Line (William Warwick Novels)

Next in Line (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey Archer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER 'Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could...
Labyrinth

Labyrinth

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 Three secrets. Two women. One Grail . . . 10th Anniversary Edition of the spellbinding No. 1 bestselling novel from the...
The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

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Author: Ira Levin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The women of Stepford are not all that they seem... All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent,...
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Author: Chibundu Onuzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
The Book of Longings: From the author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

The Book of Longings: From the author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

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Author: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE New York Times BESTSELLER The stunning bestseller about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from author...
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics)

The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing - a powerful account of a woman searching for her...
The Short End of the Sonnenallee

The Short End of the Sonnenallee

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Author: Thomas Brussig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes'...
The Journeys Of Socrates

The Journeys Of Socrates

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Author: Dan Millman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The international bestselling author is bck with a page-turning tale of the origins of the peaceful warrior In the heart of...
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collins Classics)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collins Classics)

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Author: D. H. Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in...
Perfume:  The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Author: Patrick Suskind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew...
The Blade Artist

The Blade Artist

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Author: Irvine Welsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life Ð and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor,...
Sunrise by the Sea: Escape to the Cornish coast with this brand new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Sunrise by the Sea: Escape to the Cornish coast with this brand new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Jenny Colgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express 'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes ___________________________________ In a quaint seaside...
Thunderhead (Book 2)

Thunderhead (Book 2)

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Author: Neal Shusterman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 The dark and thrilling sequel to Scythe, the New York Times sci-fi bestseller. The stakes are high in this chilling sci-fi...
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

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Author: Kenneth Grahame Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Burmese Days

Burmese Days

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the...