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The Imperial Wife

The Imperial Wife

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Millroy the Magician.

Millroy the Magician.

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The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

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'Ingenious' New York Times'Mesmerising' The Times'Loveable' Evening StandardNine-year-old Tooly is spirited away from Bangkok by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe....
Thug Lovin'

Thug Lovin'

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Tasha and Trae, the hood's favourite couple, are still together and have moved far away from the drama in New York for the sunny skies in Los Angeles...or so they...
Riverdale: Get Out of Town

Riverdale: Get Out of Town

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Damnation Spring

Damnation Spring

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*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it...
In Such Tremendous Heat: A Read With Jenna Pick

In Such Tremendous Heat: A Read With Jenna Pick

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'BRING ON THE DRAMA' Cosmopolitan Best New Book of July 2023The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick'I couldn't put it down' Alice Clark-Platts'Slick, agile, and utterly engrossing' Taiye SelasiBasking...
Ada's Realm

Ada's Realm

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"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" GQ Magazine "Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA"A time-travelling wonder of a read" PATERSON JOSEPH WHERE IS ADA? In a...
Beware the Woman: The twisty, unputdownable new thriller about family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author

Beware the Woman: The twisty, unputdownable new thriller about family

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From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, a chilling and compulsive novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Skip to the End

Skip to the End

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'Joyful, wise and enormously good fun' TASMINA PERRY       'An utterly gorgeous story that had me totally hooked. Without a doubt the best book I've read this year'...
Kill-Devil And Water: From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

Kill-Devil And Water: From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

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London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods.Pyke, still grieving over the death of his...
Float Up, Sing Down

Float Up, Sing Down

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From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs...
The Spring of Kasper Meier

The Spring of Kasper Meier

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Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply. Including the truth.The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco....
The Choice

The Choice

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A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century."I enjoyed it enormously. The story is so interesting,...
The Mess We're In: An immersive story of music, friendship and finding your own rhythm, from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Mess We're In: An immersive story of music, friendship and finding

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'A heady mix of thrills and heartbreak . . . I enjoyed it so so much' GRAHAM NORTON'What [Macmanus has] managed to do with London, and what London means to...
All Grown Up

All Grown Up

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Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she...
A Natural Curiosity

A Natural Curiosity

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January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and...
The Seaplane on Final Approach

The Seaplane on Final Approach

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An electrifying debut novel about a young woman and her desire for sleaze, whose idyllic summer on a remote Alaskan homestead takes a disturbing turn."Sexy and dark and strange and...
Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies

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The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. When her estranged, difficult brother...
Sweetest Scoundrel

Sweetest Scoundrel

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SHE'S TAKING CHARGEPrim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's...
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...
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...
Summer Blonde

Summer Blonde

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The stories in Summer Blonde are longer explorations of the same themes of his earlier collection, Sleepwalk - haunting and spare tales of the loneliness and bleak humour of modern...
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...
Weather

Weather

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A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, BIG ISSUE, VANITY FAIR, DAZEDAND i-D MAGAZINELizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is already overwhelmed with the crises of daily...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a...
Practice

Practice

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Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student...
Practice

Practice

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Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student...
Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

Blue Man Falling: A riveting World War Two tale of RAF fighter pilots

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In September 1939, World War Two is declared. For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe, the...
Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner about fame, friendship and long-buried secrets

Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?: A captivating, emotional page-turner

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SHE WAS THE NEXT BIG THING . . . UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED'Exciting and at times heart-breaking, this book is a must for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six' CARMEL...
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...
Open Season: A sexy, modern debut as featured on Women's Hour

Open Season: A sexy, modern debut as featured on Women's Hour

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"A breathtaking novel that gets under the skin of the complexities of love, sex and human nature"-Katie Bishop, author of THE GIRLS OF SUMMER"A perceptive book about intimacy and desire...
Women Talking Dirty

Women Talking Dirty

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Ellen Quinn kept her sanity in the suffocating Edinburgh suburb where she grew up by imagining it was a hotbed of intrigue. A neglected child, she's still looking for love...
Girlfriend on Mars

Girlfriend on Mars

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'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in...
Girls: The stunning new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of CARELESS

Girls: The stunning new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author

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'A memorable portrayal of a family and damaged relationships. Richly rewarding, stand-out fiction'BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Every word has the touch of a genius' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Expect to see this on every sun lounger...
Nothing Belongs to You

Nothing Belongs to You

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"A novel of exceptional emotional force" John Self, Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her...
Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

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A Thousand Miles to Graceland

A Thousand Miles to Graceland

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Grace Johnson can't escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot-until her husband announces he's done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation . . ....
Cleaner: A biting workplace satire - for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Halle Butler

Cleaner: A biting workplace satire - for fans of Ottessa [...]

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'Razor-sharp . . . Biting and compulsive' GRAZIAI clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They...
Birding

Birding

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'A beautiful book full of stark truths... Lyrical and evocative, highly recommended' Evie King, author of ASHES TO ADMIN'Beautifully written' Daily Mail'[An] empathetic, emotional reckoning' Mail on SundayIn a small...
Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

Small Mercies: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2024

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'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month 'Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping...
Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of In Our Mad and Furious City

Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted [...]

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'A quicksilver astonishment of a book. Just read it' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'A rollercoaster coming of age picaresque' Observer'A provocative powder keg. So compelling' TimesAn exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and...
The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good book to curl up with this Autumn

The Lonely Hearts' Quiz League: The MOST uplifting, feel-good [...]

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?? FALL IN LOVE WITH FOUR STRANGERS WHO MIGHT JUST FIND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT... ?? 'Full of heart' LUCY GILMORE'The cast is wonderful. I thoroughly...
The Summer Without Men

The Summer Without Men

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'An astoundingly joyful read . . . a book that shines with intellectual curiosity and emotional integrity' Guardian'By turns funny, moving and...
The Lifeline: The big-hearted and life-affirming read about the power of friendship

The Lifeline: The big-hearted and life-affirming read about the [...]

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'I loved this book - could not put it down'     'A joy to read... I really did love every page of this book'     'An easy five...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC [...]

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WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...
Waking Lions

Waking Lions

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Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that...
Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and Judy Book Club selection

Half a World Away: The heart-warming, heart-breaking Richard and [...]

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DON'T MISS MIKE'S BRAND NEW NOVEL, A SONG OF ME AND YOU - AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW!'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro***Strangers living worlds apart.Strangers...