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The Return of Norah Wells: THE FEEL-GOOD MUST-READ FOR 2018

The Return of Norah Wells: THE FEEL-GOOD MUST-READ FOR 2018

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Author: Virginia Macgregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One ordinary morning, Norah Wells walked out of her house on Willoughby Street and never looked back. Six years...
Shtum

Shtum

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Author: Jem Lester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project 'A...
Listen for the Weather

Listen for the Weather

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Author: Justine Delaney Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Every act has a consequence. Every marriage has a breaking point. Beth Rogers and her family have settled...
Prime Suspect 2:  A Face in the Crowd

Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

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Author: Lynda La Plante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to...
Painted in Blood

Painted in Blood

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Author: Ilaria Tuti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last...
Impossible

Impossible

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Author: Sarah Lotz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Discover the love story of the year 'It's the book we all need right now' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'Warm, funny,...
Safe and Sound

Safe and Sound

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Author: Philippa East Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Don't miss Philippa East's gripping and suspenseful new novel, I'LL NEVER TELL, available to pre-order now! 'Tense' Araminta Hall...
Painted in Blood

Painted in Blood

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Author: Ilaria Tuti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of...
Stig of the Dump

Stig of the Dump

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Author: Clive King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Clive King's Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic. It is the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man...
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family 'A shining delight...
The Year I met you

The Year I met you

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Jasmine loves two things: her sister and her work. And when her work is taken away she has no idea...
Return to the Italian Quarter

Return to the Italian Quarter

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Author: Domenica De Rosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A fascinating account of Italian life, written with skill and insight' Katie Fforde Sophie is only a quarter...
The Start of Summer

The Start of Summer

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Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Walsh writes with a warmth and humour about the disparate lives of four new mothers over one summer in...
One of the Family: the must-read, suspenseful novel you won't be able to put down!

One of the Family: the must-read, suspenseful novel you won't be able to put down!

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Author: Sadie Pearse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping and unputdownable read that will make you question just how far you would go to protect your...
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019

This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019

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Author: Niven Govinden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book'...
Every Colour of You: The gorgeous, heart-warming love story readers can't stop talking about

Every Colour of You: The gorgeous, heart-warming love story readers can't stop talking about

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Author: Amelia Mandeville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 How can one person change everything? 'It truly broke my heart and put it back together again' Reader review...
The Testimony of Alys Twist

The Testimony of Alys Twist

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Author: Suzannah Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill....
With or Without You: A Novel

With or Without You: A Novel

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Author: Caroline Leavitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free." -People "With or Without...
Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A soulful and wild tribute to Kerouac's final road trip, new to Penguin Modern Classics Desolation Angels is the...
Privilege: A smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class set on a college campus

Privilege: A smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class set on a college campus

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Author: Mary Adkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Carter University: "The Harvard of the South." Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school...
Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

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Author: Gina LaManna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Up there with BIG LITTLE LIES and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' Claire Allan 'Divinely original . . . this rollicking tale...
Neon in Daylight

Neon in Daylight

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Author: Hermione Hoby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed...
All Rivers Run Free

All Rivers Run Free

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Author: Natasha Carthew Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. Brittle but not...
The Art of the Body

The Art of the Body

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Author: Alex Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A bold, unflinching debut' GUARDIAN 'Brutal, tender, philosophical, visceral, complex and so well written' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH Maintaining one...
Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love and loneliness

Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love and loneliness

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Author: Kate Russo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life's most disconcerting feelings Bennett Driscoll is...
Rolling Fields

Rolling Fields

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Author: David Trueba Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. Fulfilling his father's...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 We all keep secrets. Even from ourselves. 'A thrilling, heart-in-throat ride' STEPHEN FRY 'An absolute jaw-dropper' LUCY FOLEY 'Elegant, sinister, stylish'...
Blueprint

Blueprint

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Author: Theresia Enzensberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'This powerful novel tells a story of a time past that feels eerily reflective of the present' Sunday Times...
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

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Author: Paulus Hochgatterer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 "This is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth" New European "This tense novella builds to a...
Think of Me

Think of Me

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Author: Frances Liardet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must...
Back To You

Back To You

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Author: Tammy Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What happens when a couple are torn apart just at the moment when they fall in love? When Finn...
Tiger: shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

Tiger: shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

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Author: Polly Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 **The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of LARCHFIELD** 'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian 'Grabbed me by...
The Red Daughter

The Red Daughter

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Author: John Burnham Schwartz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'John Burnham Schwartz has drawn such a fine and generous portrait of Stalin's daughter - a difficult, complicated,...
Darke Matter: A Novel

Darke Matter: A Novel

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 James Darke helped his beloved wife, Suzanne, die. And now he is holed up in his house waiting for his daughter,...
Darke Matter: A Novel

Darke Matter: A Novel

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Its snarky hero is a joy', a Times and Sunday Times Novel of the Year, 2020 'Clever, witty and...
Five Hundred Miles From You: the most joyful, life-affirming novel of the year

Five Hundred Miles From You: the most joyful, life-affirming novel of the year

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Author: Jenny Colgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express 'A sheer delight from start to finish' Sophie Kinsella ___________________________________ They...
An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

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Author: Buki Papillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!......
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

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Author: Okechukwu Nzelu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 'A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness' Andrew McMillan 'Smart,...
Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

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Author: Kit Fan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering...
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the...
Just the Plague

Just the Plague

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Author: Polly Gannon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report...
Red Crosses

Red Crosses

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Author: Sasha Filipenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment...
You Should Have Known: coming soon as The Undoing on HBO and Sky Atlantic

You Should Have Known: coming soon as The Undoing on HBO and Sky Atlantic

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Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'A great psychological thriller . I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin A New York Times bestseller Grace...
Peaces

Peaces

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Author: Helen Oyeyemi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them...
Missionaries

Missionaries

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Author: Phil Klay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Expansive, explosive and epic' - Marlon James 'A courageous book' - New York Times Book Review A BARACK OBAMA...
Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017

Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017

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Author: Alain Mabanckou Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But...
The Great Mistake

The Great Mistake

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Author: Jonathan Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903....
Em & Me

Em & Me

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Author: Beth Morrey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Glorious!' CLARE POOLEY 'Compelling' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Beautiful, uplifting and deeply moving' FREYA SAMPSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author...