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Ascent: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty

Ascent: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty

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Author: Jed Mercurio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and...
Skin Deep: The unputdownable No. 1 bestseller that will shock you

Skin Deep: The unputdownable No. 1 bestseller that will shock you

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Author: Liz Nugent Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The deliciously sinister new novel from the bestselling author of Lying in Wait 'I could probably have been an...
Through the Fire

Through the Fire

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Author: Katie Ruggle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Kit Jernigan despairs of ever fitting in with her new tight-knit K9 unit. They've been through too much to...
The Extra Man

The Extra Man

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Author: Jonathan Ames Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a...
Young Philby

Young Philby

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Author: Robert Littell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Englishman Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim, slips onto the Russian freighter Domatova as it quietly sails out of...
The Death of an Owl: From the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a witty tale of scandal and subterfuge

The Death of an Owl: From the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a witty tale of scandal and subterfuge

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Author: Paul Torday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into...
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their...
A Life Full of Holes

A Life Full of Holes

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Author: Larbi Layachi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a...
A Book of American Martyrs

A Book of American Martyrs

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the...
The Shadow List

The Shadow List

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Author: Todd Moss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary...
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 workings of destiny. Ah...
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 206 Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the pageOn the 12th floor of...
Our Kind of Cruelty

Our Kind of Cruelty

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Author: Araminta Hall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "A searing, chilling sliver of perfection . . . May well turn out to be the year's best thriller."...
For a Little While

For a Little While

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Author: Rick Bass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for...
Christmas in Austin

Christmas in Austin

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Author: Benjamin Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas, they all bring their news. Nathan is hoping to become a...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
The Tempest

The Tempest

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Author: Steve Sem-Sandberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations...
Black Light

Black Light

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Author: Kimberly King Parsons (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush...I loved every moment of this...
Happy Days of the Grump: The feel-good bestseller perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove

Happy Days of the Grump: The feel-good bestseller perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove

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Author: Tuomas Kyro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Everybody recognises the Grump, everybody knows a grump. And maybe there's a little grump in every one of us......
The Doll Funeral: from the bestselling, Costa-shortlisted author of The Girl in the Red Coat

The Doll Funeral: from the bestselling, Costa-shortlisted author of The Girl in the Red Coat

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Author: Kate Hamer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me...
She Would Be King

She Would Be King

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Author: Wayetu Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 "Wayetu Moore is an inspiration . . . her book is a gift" Imbolo Mbue "The book is unforgettable...
It All Falls Down: The truth doesn't always set you free

It All Falls Down: The truth doesn't always set you free

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Author: Sheena Kamal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Nora Watts is being hunted... When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father,...
Immigrant, Montana

Immigrant, Montana

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Author: Amitava Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's...
The Gunners

The Gunners

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What's the point in friends, if you can't share your secrets? The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang...
Mouthpieces

Mouthpieces

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Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically...
Secrets of Happiness

Secrets of Happiness

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Author: Joan Silber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family - a...
Good Eggs

Good Eggs

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Author: Rebecca Hardiman (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Meet the Gogartys; cantankerous gran Millie (whose eccentricities include a penchant for petty-theft and reckless driving); bitter downtrodden...
Platform Seven

Platform Seven

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Author: Louise Doughty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November...
All This Could Be Yours

All This Could Be Yours

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His...
The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians

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Author: Eimear McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH...
Songs in Ursa Major

Songs in Ursa Major

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Author: Emma Brodie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 *The must-read book of the summer* 'Utterly transporting' Stylist 'A gorgeous, one-gulp novel' Red 'Emma Brodie perfectly channels the...
Silver Tears

Silver Tears

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Author: Camilla Lackberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A gripping new novel from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg She is safe... Faye...
Silver Wattle

Silver Wattle

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Author: Belinda Alexandra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A dazzling novel about two exceptional sisters set in the Australian film world of the 1920s, from the author...
Lean Fall Stand

Lean Fall Stand

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Author: Jon McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel...
Sleeping on Jupiter

Sleeping on Jupiter

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Author: Anuradha Roy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jarmuli: a city of temples, a centre of healing on the edge of the ocean. Nomi, a young girl, is taken...
Still Alice

Still Alice

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Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy...
In Case You Missed It

In Case You Missed It

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Author: Lindsey Kelk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 What if Mr Right was right in front of you all along? Escape with the laugh out loud brand-new...
The Talented Miss Farwell: A Novel

The Talented Miss Farwell: A Novel

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Author: Emily Gray Tedrowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of...
Freedom

Freedom

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 570 An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Patty...
Feast of the Innocents

Feast of the Innocents

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Author: Evelio Rosero Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez should be a happy man--he has a family, a thriving medical practice, and adoring patients--but he...
The Child's Secret

The Child's Secret

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Author: Amanda Brooke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A little girl is missing. Her parents are hiding something. Who will pay the price? When eight-year-old Jasmine Peterson...
Dominicana: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020

Dominicana

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Author: Angie Cruz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to...
Cape May

Cape May

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Author: Chip Cheek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'BRILLIANTLY UNSETTLING' Paula Hawkins 'SO, SO GOOD' Stylist (The Top 10 Books of 2019) 'DEVASTATING... A HEADY COCKTAIL' Mail...
Be Frank with Me

Be Frank with Me

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Author: Julia Claiborne Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For some boys fitting in means standing out Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. He's as...
I Love Dick

I Love Dick

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Author: Chris Kraus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls...
The Temple House Vanishing

The Temple House Vanishing

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Author: Rachel Donohue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Power. Jealousy. Desire. Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace... When Louisa arrives...
Home Remedies

Home Remedies

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Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...
Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage

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Author: Mary Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Kate Herrick's grandmother asks her to travel down from Scotland to her childhood home in Todhall to retrieve...