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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

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Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...
Doxology

Doxology

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving...
The Outsiders

The Outsiders

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Author: S.E. Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E....
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...
Ice

Ice

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Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover

The Naive and Sentimental Lover

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the...
The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace

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Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself...
Ada or Ardor

Ada or Ardor

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...
A Heart so White

A Heart so White

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

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Author: Dorothy Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bastard out of Carolinais a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with...
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

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Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...
Catapult: Short stories from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of History of Wolves

Catapult: Short stories from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of History of Wolves

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Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...
A Half Forgotten Song

A Half Forgotten Song

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Author: Katherine Webb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 1937. In a village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing -...
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

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Author: Hannah Tinti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Bursting with imagination, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin...
The Hungry Ghosts

The Hungry Ghosts

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Author: Anne Berry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel for those who loved BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM, THE POISONWOOD BIBLE and THE LOVELY BONES....
News of Our Loved Ones: A Novel

News of Our Loved Ones: A Novel

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Author: Abigail DeWitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and...
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

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Author: Irina Ratushinskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in...
The Best Kind of People

The Best Kind of People

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Author: Zoe Whittall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 What if your own husband was accused of sexual misconduct? 'You will be left wondering just who George is,...
Eloise: The heart-stopping Number One bestseller from the much loved book club champion

Eloise: The heart-stopping Number One bestseller from the much loved book club champion

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Author: Judy Finnigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing...
The American Girl

The American Girl

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Author: Rachael English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 *No.1 bestseller* From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O'Farrell comes...
The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

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Author: William Nicholson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart -...
We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors

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Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable...
The English Girl: A compelling, sweeping novel of love, loss, secrets and betrayal

The English Girl: A compelling, sweeping novel of love, loss, secrets and betrayal

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Author: Katherine Webb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the...
Shadow Man

Shadow Man

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Author: Margaret Kirk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'SHADOW MAN is a harrowing and horrific game of consequences.' Val McDermid A gripping Scottish crime thriller from the...
The Weekend

The Weekend

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Author: Prof Bernhard Schlink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They...
Here I Am

Here I Am

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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer (University of Ottowa) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A monumental novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,...
Savages 2: The Spectre

Savages 2: The Spectre

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Author: Sabri Louatah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In an already tense crowd on election night, France's first Arab presidential candidate Chaouch is shot at close range...
This One Is Mine

This One Is Mine

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Author: Maria Semple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including...
Gold Fame Citrus

Gold Fame Citrus

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Author: Claire Vaye Watkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Desert sands have laid waste to the south-west of America. Las Vegas is buried. California - and anyone...
PS, I Love You

PS, I Love You

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives...
The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder

The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder

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Author: Sarah J. Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues? 'A rich tapestry... distinctive and compelling'...
In/Half

In/Half

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Author: Jasmin B. Frelih Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 It's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network. In this post-Internet world, three...
A Drop of Patience

A Drop of Patience

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Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...
I'll Be Your Blue Sky Intl

I'll Be Your Blue Sky Intl

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Author: Marisa de los Santos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and...
The Testimony

The Testimony

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Author: James Smythe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would...
Strangers with the Same Dream: From the Man Booker Longlisted author of Far to Go

Strangers with the Same Dream: From the Man Booker Longlisted author of Far to Go

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Author: Alison Pick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From Alison Pick, Booker Prize longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding...
Ella Morris: A Novel

Ella Morris: A Novel

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Author: John David Morley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 'This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss...
Butterflies in November

Butterflies in November

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Author: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In a dark Icelandic November, the narrator sees her husband leave without a word of warning. At...
Certain American States

Certain American States

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Author: Catherine Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss...
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished...
That Day in June

That Day in June

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Author: Martina Reilly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Eight years ago, Sandy ran away from home, and has done her best never to look back. Now, the...
Summary Justice: 'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times

Summary Justice: 'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times

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Author: John Fairfax Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was...
Interzone

Interzone

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Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Interzoneshows the evolution of William Burroughs from the terse, fiercely confessional writer ofJunkyto the wild, brutal fantasist ofNaked...
The Wallcreeper

The Wallcreeper

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...
Englands Lane

Englands Lane

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Author: Joseph Connolly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane,...
Blackwater the pulse-racing introduction to the DI Nicholas Lowry thrillers

Blackwater the pulse-racing introduction to the DI Nicholas Lowry thrillers

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Author: James Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 THE NEW ESSEX-BASED CRIME SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DI JACK FROST PREQUELS - PERFECT FOR FANS...
Blacklight Blue

Blacklight Blue

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Author: Peter May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A CEREBRAL, CHILLING TALE BOUND TO BURNISH MAY'S REPUTATION." --Kirkus Reviews "AN UNUSUALLY COMPELLING, ONGOING SAGA" --Publishers Weekly "HIS...