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The Orphan Master's Son: Barack Obama's Summer Reading Pick 2019

The Orphan Master's Son: Barack Obama's Summer Reading Pick 2019

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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

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Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In A Ballet of Lepers Leonard Cohen explores themes that would come to permeate his later works - shame stemming from...
To Cut a Long Story Short

To Cut a Long Story Short

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Shiver: A Novel

Shiver: A Novel

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Angels

Angels

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The Candy House (Signed First UK Edition)

The Candy House (Signed First UK Edition)

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Hardback - Signed first edition (UK)Number of Pages: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty,...
One Spoon on This Earth

One Spoon on This Earth

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Author: Hyun Ki-Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 330 An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, "One Spoon on this Earth" stands a sort of digest of contemporary...
Mercy

Mercy

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Dirt Music

Dirt Music

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Love Objects

Love Objects

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A Wedding In December

A Wedding In December

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Saturday

Saturday

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The Lost Shtetl: A Novel

The Lost Shtetl: A Novel

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Author: Max Gross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES GOOD...
None of This Is Serious

None of This Is Serious

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Author: Catherine Prasifka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Extraordinary' - Naoise Dolan 'Seriously good' - Louise Nealon Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends....
The Names: 'The best debut novel in years' Sunday Times

The Names: 'The best debut novel in years' Sunday Times

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A MAJOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son....
The Sunflower Boys: A Novel

The Sunflower Boys: A Novel

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A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war...
Victory City

Victory City

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The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning,...
The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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**AS HEARD IN THE TAYLOR SWIFT DOCUMENTARY, THE END OF AN ERA** AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF GOODREADS MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'I...
Wicked: the bestselling book that inspired the movie

Wicked: the bestselling book that inspired the movie

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The global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon. Now a major movie and record-breaking box office sensation. ?? ?? In this classic tale of good and evil, what if...
Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange Flowers An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as...
The Spa Break

The Spa Break

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A laugh-out-loud romcom in 2025, perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey and Sophie Kinsella 'Funny, endearing and impossible to put down' Reader review 'We laughed out loud at this perfect...
Fierceland

Fierceland

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The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author. 'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer.' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit...
Gatsby

Gatsby

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Everyone knows Gatsby.New money. Murky past. Huge online following. 'A clever, gender-flipped modern-day retelling of the classic' Grazia 'Stylish and beautifully written, with a case of the most decadently unhinged...
The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel

The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel

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In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...
Clean

Clean

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THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of...
A Scatter of Light: from the author of Last Night at the Telegraph

A Scatter of Light: from the author of Last Night at the Telegraph

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'A book that feels like summer ... with moments of sharp clarity that puncture the constant sense of aching and longing that define the feel of much of the story.'...
A Winter to Remember: A cosy, festive page-turner from the bestselling

A Winter to Remember: A cosy, festive page-turner from the bestselling

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'Heart-warming and unputdownable' Carmel Harrington Emily loves the festive season. This year she's hosting a special Christmas lunch at her restaurant to celebrate with family and friends. But as the...
Disney Villains Happily Never After: A Villainous Book of Affection

Disney Villains Happily Never After: A Villainous Book of Affection

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And they lived happily never after . . . This irreverent-yet-endearing collection of snarky sentiments and wicked affection features the most terrifying Disney villains in all the land. Tell the...
A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother

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The hardest lies to spot are the ones we tell ourselves. Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks. She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She...
Memorial

Memorial

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Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of...
Mrs S

Mrs S

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An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'I loved this book' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Exhilarating' MONICA HEISEY 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR 'Should be on everyone's summer...
The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins

The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins

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Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...
Flames

Flames

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The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's second novel, coming mid-2020. A young man named Levi McAllister decides...
Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry

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The 8-million-copy worldwide and Sunday Times #1 bestseller and award-winner featuring the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER, now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. A...
Without Fail: (Jack Reacher 6)

Without Fail: (Jack Reacher 6)

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Jack Reacher is back- this time, he's in the line of fire, protecting the Vice President of the United States A Washington woman asks Reacher for help. Her job? Protecting...
Hot Milk

Hot Milk

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the...
Our Man In Havana

Our Man In Havana

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Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set...
A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion

A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion

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From seven bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a gripping and vividly imagined novel following an epic struggle of rebellion against the might of Rome.Britannia: land...
Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025

Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025

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'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...
Wound

Wound

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A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
The Meadow Girls: A heartwarming World War I saga

The Meadow Girls: A heartwarming World War I saga

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Author: Sheila Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga from the bestselling author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret. August 1914. Twelve-year-old...
The Favourite: A razor-sharp suspense novel that will stay with you long after the final page

The Favourite: A razor-sharp suspense novel that will stay with you long after the final page

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Author: Rosemary Hennigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'WOW! If this isn't a book to brag about I don't know what is... I started The Favourite late last night....
Sunny: A Novel

Sunny: A Novel

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Author: Colin O'Sullivan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 SOON TO BE A MAJOR STREAMING SERIES A riveting technological thriller following a woman whose life is upended when her husband...
The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing...
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 Historian: The captivating international bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick

The Historian: The captivating international bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick

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Divine Evil

Divine Evil

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Author: Nora Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Famed sculptor Clare Kimball has the art world at her feet. But her success can't help her escape the nightmares that...