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Rock 'n' Rose

Rock 'n' Rose

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Author: Suzan Holder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It's now or never... In the summer of 1960, eighteen-year-old Rose Featherstone took a trip to Memphis that changed her life....
Love You From A-Z

Love You From A-Z

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Author: Linda Corbett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 For the love of letters... Experience has told Jenna Oakhurst that Happy Ever After may happen in all the best stories,...
The Halfways

The Halfways

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Author: Nilopar Uddin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'I loved this sweeping family drama. Moving and unforgettable' Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A moving, atmospheric and engrossing family...
Slam

Slam

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Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue

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Still Murder: A Novel

Still Murder: A Novel

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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montes O'Brien

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montes O'Brien

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The Big Music

The Big Music

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Author: Kirsty Gunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel...
This One Sky Day: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022

This One Sky Day: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022

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Author: Leone Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things...
The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick

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The Clayton Account

The Clayton Account

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Robbery Under Arms

Robbery Under Arms

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The Book of Not

The Book of Not

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Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart....
The Anthill

The Anthill

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Author: Julianne Pachico Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A brilliant, feverishly imaginative novel.' - Sharlene Teo 'Seriously impressive.' - Claire Adam 'A vibrantly intelligent work.' - Sergio de la...
The Arrangement: The perfect summer read - a heartwarming and feelgood romantic comedy

The Arrangement: The perfect summer read - a heartwarming and feelgood romantic comedy

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Author: Sonya Lalli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 You can't choose who you fall for...but it helps if there's a list Raina, twenty-nine, is still unmarried much to the...
Madame Zero

Madame Zero

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Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological -...
Flick

Flick

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Author: Abigail Tarttelin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'My name is Flick and these are my images of my disconnected life, my forgettable weeks and unforgettable weekends. I am...
Harsh Times

Harsh Times

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.' - Financial Times Guatemala,...
Another Mother: 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT

Another Mother: 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT

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Author: Susan Spindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT 'Kept me reading late into the night' DAILY MAIL 'Clever and compelling. I loved...
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls.'...
Some Hope

Some Hope

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Author: Edward St Aubyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The third of the Melrose novels. Some Hope finds Patrick qualified as a barrister and speaking for the first time...
This Happy: Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020

This Happy: Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020

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Author: Niamh Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A beautiful, wry love story' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans, author...
The Khan: A Times Bestseller

The Khan: A Times Bestseller

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Author: Saima Mir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.' A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness 'Compelling and gritty.' Cosmopolitan 'Authentic, immersive and powerful.' Will Dean, author...
The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

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Author: Brit Bennett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An...
Before the Ruins

Before the Ruins

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Author: Victoria Gosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' -...
The Latecomer

The Latecomer

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Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth,education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
Leila

Leila

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Author: Prayaag Akbar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila's third birthday party: it was the last time she saw her alive. Sixteen years...
Toto Among the Murderers: Winner of the Portico Prize 2022

Toto Among the Murderers: Winner of the Portico Prize 2022

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Author: Sally J Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have...
The Tunnel

The Tunnel

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Author: A.B. Yehoshua Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. At the beginning he only makes small mistakes, forgetting first names and taking...
The Beggar and the Hare

The Beggar and the Hare

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Author: Tuomas Kyro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A strange, compelling fable about Europe, capitalism and the human heart. Vatanescu, an impoverished construction worker, wants a future for himself...
We Were Young

We Were Young

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Author: Niamh Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Young then. Before Alva and everything.' Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover...
To Walk Alone in the Crowd

To Walk Alone in the Crowd

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Author: Antonio Munoz Molina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive...
Industry of Magic & Light

Industry of Magic & Light

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Author: David Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing....
The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries

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Author: R. O. Kwon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'R. O. Kwon is the real deal' LAUREN GROFF 'Absolutely electric . . . Everyone should read this book' GARTH...
The Birdcatcher: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

The Birdcatcher: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

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Author: Gayl Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The Birdcatcher is the new novel from a major voice in American literature, which...
The Book of Chocolate Saints

The Book of Chocolate Saints

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Author: Jeet Thayil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation -...
The Vanished

The Vanished

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Author: Lotte Hammer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be...
Norma

Norma

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Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that...
Less is Lost: 'An emotional and soul-searching sequel' (Sunday Times) to the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Less

Less is Lost: 'An emotional and soul-searching sequel' (Sunday Times) to the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Less

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Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The awkward and lovable hero of Andrew Sean Greer's bestselling and prize-winning novel Less returns in this unforgettable road trip...
True Biz: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

True Biz: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Author: Sara Novic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon 'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying...
Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

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Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

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The Long Answer

The Long Answer

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Author: Anna Hogeland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A startling meditation on grief and family and betrayal and the stories we tell about ourselves ... introspective, psychologically astute, and...
Fatal Proof

Fatal Proof

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Author: John Fairfax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'These Benson and de Vere stories are unputdownable... A five star bravura performance. This writer gets better and better' A.N. Wilson...
To Fill a Yellow House

To Fill a Yellow House

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Author: Sussie Anie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Nothing short of a joy' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water When Kwasi and his family move abruptly from one...
Carry the Dog

Carry the Dog

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Author: Stephanie Gangi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were...
Bad News

Bad News

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Author: Edward St Aubyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The second of the Melrose novels. Bad News takes Patrick into his early twenties. Constrained to fly to New York...
Heading Out to Wonderful

Heading Out to Wonderful

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