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Fever: Volume 2

Fever: Volume 2

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The Train Home

The Train Home

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Author: Dan-ah Kim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 When a young girl wishes for a quiet place to call her own, her imagination takes her on a journey to...
Itch

Itch

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Prey for the Shadow: A Terra Alta Investigation

Prey for the Shadow: A Terra Alta Investigation

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Author: Javier Cercas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The...
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 Umbrella Maker's Son

The Umbrella Maker's Son

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Author: Katrina Leno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Oscar Buckle lives in a city where it's always raining. And when it isn't raining, it's about to rain, so the...
Lost & Found

Lost & Found

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Author: Elizabeth Garner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "[Elizabeth] Garner writes of myth with lyricism and sensitivity, she is steeped in the gift for being able to control the...
Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel

Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel

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Author: Walter Mosley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA Joe King Oliver is...
Kill Me Once

Kill Me Once

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The Edge of Everything

The Edge of Everything

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The Choice: the gripping ebook bestseller about a mother's impossible choice

The Choice: the gripping ebook bestseller about a mother's impossible choice

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Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick

Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick

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Author: Celeste Ng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE PANDORA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hottest book for THE...
Blueprint

Blueprint

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Author: Theresia Enzensberger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'This powerful novel tells a story of a time past that feels eerily reflective of the present' Sunday Times 'Bring[s] to...
On the Savage Side

On the Savage Side

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Author: Tiffany McDaniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for an escape, they...
The Hawkling

The Hawkling

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Author: Rebecca Zahabi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The rebels on the other side of the Shadowpass are massing, and refugees are flooding in to the city. Scared, penniless...
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3

Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3

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Author: Granta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction...
Just By Looking at Him: The ONLY book you need to read this LGBTQ+ Pride season, from a hilarious new voice

Just By Looking at Him: The ONLY book you need to read this LGBTQ+ Pride season, from a hilarious new voice

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Author: Ryan O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Sharp, bawdy, yet still deeply touching. It's shockingly elegant, and elegantly shocking' LENA DUNHAM 'A very funny novel about falling for...
Leaving Atlanta

Leaving Atlanta

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Author: Tayari Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 It's the end of summer in Atlanta, and fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover that back-to-school...
Incredible Doom: Volume 2

Incredible Doom: Volume 2

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Author: Matthew Bogart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "A thrilling tale of found family discovered between lines of code."-Sara Alfageeh, co-creator of Squire WELCOME TO EVOL HOUSE... It may...
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...
Chorus

Chorus

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'You don't have to go back. You will stay here at home, with me. This is where you belong.' One afternoon,...
The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family

The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family

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Author: Russell Franklin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas In 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City,...
NerdCrush

NerdCrush

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Author: Alisha Emrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Happily Ever Afters meets You've Got Mail in this geeky, Black Girl Magic filled debut romance about cosplay and finding the...
Your Show: 'The football novel is back.' The Times

Your Show: 'The football novel is back.' The Times

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Author: Ashley Hickson-Lovence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AS HEARD ON R4s FRONT ROW 'The football novel is back.' - The Times Wonderful.'...
Only If You're Lucky

Only If You're Lucky

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Author: Stacy Willingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 From the New York Times bestselling author of A FLICKER IN THE DARK and ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS comes a gripping...
From Pasta to Pigfoot

From Pasta to Pigfoot

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Author: Frances Mensah Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 526 Sparks fly and cultures clash in Frances Mensah Williams' romantic ode to self-love and multiculturalism. Dismissed as a cultural lightweight...
Freshers

Freshers

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Author: Tom Ellen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A hilarious and relatable story from the YA Book Prize-shortlisted authors of Lobsters! 'The funniest YA book of the year' HOLLY...
The Chicken Nugget Ambush

The Chicken Nugget Ambush

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Author: Mark Lowery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Roman Garstang is all set for his class trip to Farm View outdoor survival centre. There are only three issues: 1....
The Outlaw Album

The Outlaw Album

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Author: Daniel Woodrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction....
Mary Prince (reloaded look)

Mary Prince (reloaded look)

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Author: E. L. Norry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 My Story: Mary Prince - the thrilling story of the former slave and abolitionist. Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary...
The Education of Ivy Edwards: a totally hilarious and relatable romantic comedy

The Education of Ivy Edwards: a totally hilarious and relatable romantic comedy

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Author: Hannah Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ivy Edwards is thirty-one years old, funny, shameless, and a bit of a romantic. She's also currently trying not to cry...
Small Mercies: A Times and Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Small Mercies: A Times and Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

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Author: Dennis Lehane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2023 'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times...
Evidence of Death

Evidence of Death

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Author: Peter Ritchie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Book 2 in the Detective Grace Macallan Thriller series. Scarred by the Troubles in Belfast, Billy Nelson returns to his Loyalist...
Operation Boy Band: Frankie Fox, Girl Spy Book 2

Operation Boy Band: Frankie Fox, Girl Spy Book 2

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Author: Yvette Poshoglian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Junior Griffin agent Frankie Fox is undercover on her second mission, visiting an international kids' robotics competition in Scotland. She's investigating...
The Last Summer (of You & Me)

The Last Summer (of You & Me)

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Author: Ann Brashares Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The long, hot summers spent on Fire Island have always been the highlight of the year for sisters Riley and Alice....
The Braid Girls

The Braid Girls

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Author: Sherri Winston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Maggie's world is turned upside down when she learns that her father, whom she admires, has a second daughter, Callie, whom...
Burntcoat

Burntcoat

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Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In...
Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick

Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick

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Author: Celeste Ng Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE REESE WITHERSPOON OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK 'Governments are right to fear words. They can change hearts and topple tyrannies....It's impossible...
The Jules Verne Prophecy

The Jules Verne Prophecy

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Author: Iva-Marie Palmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 When a mysterious book by the legendary writer Jules Verne falls into the hands of three unlikely friends, it sets off...
The Five Wounds

The Five Wounds

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Author: Kirstin Valdez Quade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize 'A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale' - O Magazine In this...
The Cherry Robbers

The Cherry Robbers

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Author: Sarai Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Sarai Walker has done it again ... upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.' - Maria Semple, bestelling...
Restless Coffins

Restless Coffins

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Author: M.P. Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Brother, a dead body can't run from a coffin, but their spirit sure as hell can try.' 1967, Bristol. Life is...
Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN

Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN

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Author: Jem Calder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you've been waiting for someone to close the gap on social distancing, to capture the furtive problems of social media,...
Total

Total

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Author: Rebecca Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting...
The Second Cut

The Second Cut

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Author: Louise Welsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 'Superb' -The Times Crime Book of the Month 'A hardboiled gem' - Guardian 'I doubt I'll...
The Startup Wife

The Startup Wife

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Author: Tahmima Anam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Poignant as well as savagely witty' - Observer 'Stylish and funny' - Sunday Times 'Hits every note perfectly' - Kamila Shamsie...
Mother's Milk

Mother's Milk

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Author: Edward St Aubyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of the Melrose novels. Now a husband and...
Evidence of Death

Evidence of Death

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Author: Peter Ritchie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Book 2 in the Detective Grace Macallan Thriller series. Scarred by the Troubles in Belfast, Billy Nelson returns to his Loyalist...