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The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

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In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of...
One Summer in Tuscany: Romance blooms under the Italian sun

One Summer in Tuscany: Romance blooms under the Italian sun

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Perfect holiday reading from Domenica de Rosa, author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries under the pen name Elly Griffiths. A group of would-be authors retreats to Tuscany where...
My Season of Scandal: The Palace of Rogues

My Season of Scandal: The Palace of Rogues

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In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a doe-eyed girl from the country, changing...
The Island: The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'

The Island: The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and

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'This is one of the most touching, gripping and inspiring books that I have ever read. Hislop seamlessly weaves an accurate history of a Greek island with a forbidden love...
Comrade Papa

Comrade Papa

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BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure...
Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has spies everywhere.

Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has

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'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL---Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens...
Honeybee

Honeybee

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  From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a buzzy new novel about womanhood, winging it, and the wonders of female friendship **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Funny, relatable and incredibly entertaining,...
Levitation for Beginners: SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO FICTION PRIZE 2024

Levitation for Beginners: SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO FICTION PRIZE 2024

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'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us...
A Narrow Door: The electric psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

A Narrow Door: The electric psychological thriller from the Sunday

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'Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS'A psychological thriller you can't put down' HARLAN COBEN'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable' RUTH WARE'A dark...
England is Mine: An Observer Best Debut Novel 2024

England is Mine: An Observer Best Debut Novel 2024

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'A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism' Monica AliDavid hates school, where he has been bullied, and has reached sixth form without any friends. Music is the only...
Glass Houses: 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' - Louise O'Neill

Glass Houses: 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary

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'Through a dewy sheen of teen nostalgia, Reece deftly explores the weight of political events on individual lives. Her supple, visceral prose evokes North Wales in all its complexity, beautifully...
Strangers at the Port: Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024

Strangers at the Port: Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet...
A Journey to The End of The Millennium

A Journey to The End of The Millennium

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Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu...
The Dream of a Tree

The Dream of a Tree

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From the bestselling author of The History of Bees Longyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner...
Glass Houses: Two estranged sisters, one overgrown garden and a journey of hope

Glass Houses: Two estranged sisters, one overgrown garden and a journey of hope

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'A wonderfully empathetic exploration of human frailties and our capacity to heal ... brutally truthful and beautifully uplifting' Sophie White'Moving, unexpected and compassionate' Louise O'Neill'A heartfelt reminder of the importance...
Kinfolk

Kinfolk

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Sometimes it's the most unlikely meetings that give us life's greatest gifts.1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or "Nub," has spent his whole life listening to those he loves...
Pathways

Pathways

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'Funny, poignant, elegantly written, I adored this novel' Amanda Hodgkinson'Wonderful... It's thrillingly written, delicately accomplished and will live in my head for a long time' Lloyd ShepherdCara is a dedicated...
Love Me, Love Me Not: The powerful new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Careless

Love Me, Love Me Not: The powerful new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Careless

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Don't miss the new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Careless'An emotional rollercoaster' GRAZIA'A rare new talent' THE GUARDIAN''So real, and so very moving' JESSICA RYN'A second heartfelt...
There's Been a Little Incident

There's Been a Little Incident

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Author: Alice Ryan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since her parents...
Private Rites

Private Rites

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Author: Julia ArmfieldFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 340g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK'Hauntingly good' iNEWS'A must read' GLAMOUR From the bestselling...
Toward Eternity: A Novel

Toward Eternity: A Novel

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Author: Anton HurFormat: Paperback, 142mm x 211mm, 231g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits...
Keeping a Christmas Promise: Escape to Iceland with the most feel-good and uplifting Christmas romance of 2022

Keeping a Christmas Promise: Escape to Iceland with the most feel-good and uplifting Christmas romance of 2022

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Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has spies everywhere.

Traitor in the Ice: Treachery has gripped the nation. But the King has spies everywhere.

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Author: K. J. Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT 'Maitland is...
Mercia'S Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023

Mercia'S Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023

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Author: Daniel WilesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 208 pagesPublished: Swift Press, United Kingdom, 20221870s, the Black Country.Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man.Michael exhausts himself working...
A Gentleman Never Tells: The sexy, steamy and utterly page-turning new regency romance from the million-copy bestselling author

A Gentleman Never Tells: The sexy, steamy and utterly page-turning new regency romance from the million-copy bestselling author

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Author: Jodi Ellen MalpasFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 280g, 304 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023Million-copy bestselling author Jodi Ellen Malpas is back - with her first ever Regency...
The Vintage Shop: 'Hot buttered-toast-and-tea feelgood fiction' The Times

The Vintage Shop: 'Hot buttered-toast-and-tea feelgood fiction' The Times

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Author: Libby PageFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 260g, 368 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Absorbing, thoughtful and moving... a wonderfully engaging feelgood read that you'll want to come back...
See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat

See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat

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Author: David LaRochelle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 What happens when a cat tries to be a dog? With this second wry primer, the creators of See the Cat...
Ponyboy

Ponyboy

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Author: Eliot Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A bildungsroman set over three acts, Ponyboy is a quest for self-identity set among the art world of Paris and Berlin....
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...
The Collarbound

The Collarbound

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Author: Rebecca Zahabi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Beautifully wrought dark fantasy' NetGalley Reviewer A MAN MARKED BY MAGIC. A WOMAN MARKED BY HER PAST. On the other side...
Ink Girls

Ink Girls

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Author: Marieke Nijkamp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "In this vibrant story about the power of the printed word and the strength of found families, every page is bursting...
At Bertram's Hotel (Marple, Book 11)

At Bertram's Hotel (Marple, Book 11)

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Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A grand old London hotel A series of alarming coincidences Danger lurking down every corridor Impeccable service. Luxurious rooms. Eccentric guests....
Alchemist, The 25th Anniversary

Alchemist, The 25th Anniversary

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Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom...
The Passage

The Passage

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Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

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Days Without End

Days Without End

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For The Good Times

For The Good Times

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Author: David Keenan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast that has become the...
The Missing Pieces of Us

The Missing Pieces of Us

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Author: Fleur McDonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 'Yet another reason why Australian audiences have fallen in love with McDonald's novels.' Weekly Times Lauren Ramsey is a teacher whose...
Labyrinth

Labyrinth

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances

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Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

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The Woman Who Stole My Life: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

The Woman Who Stole My Life: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

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The Arrangement

The Arrangement

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Really Good, Actually

Really Good, Actually

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Author: Monica Heisey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Intoxicating ... heralds a really good...
The Turning

The Turning

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The Family Gift

The Family Gift

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Spin The Bottle

Spin The Bottle

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