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Jane is Trying

Jane is Trying

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Author: Isy Suttie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Jane is trying. She's been trying for a baby, with increasing desperation as her thirties sail by. Now, she's trying to...
Days of the Dead

Days of the Dead

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Author: Tim Glencross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Might have been written by P.G. Wodehouse's evil twin ... impeccably plotted' Daily Telegraph William Hoffer - handsome, refined, a little...
Incendiary

Incendiary

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Author: Chris Cleave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there...
All the Water in the World: Shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Award

All the Water in the World: Shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Award

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Author: Karen Raney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020. Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021. Runner up for The Paul Torday Memorial...
Nine Mil

Nine Mil

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Author: Robert Ryan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 For gamblers and fun-seekers, Atlantic City is a place to chase your dreams. But for taxi driver Ed Behr, it's where...
All the Fun of the Fair: A hilarious, brilliantly original coming-of-age story that will capture your heart

All the Fun of the Fair: A hilarious, brilliantly original coming-of-age story that will capture your heart

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Author: Caroline Hulse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 One summer her sister never came home from the fair. This summer she's determined to find out why. 'Quirky, original and...
Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

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Author: Emma Larkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 372 In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community....
The Ingenious Edgar Jones

The Ingenious Edgar Jones

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Author: Elizabeth Garner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Set in nineteenth-century Oxford, and shot through with a powerful sense of magic, Elizabeth Garner's new novel will appeal both to...
Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

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Author: Emma Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An overlooked patch of jungle behind a Bangkok city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community....
The Candy House

The Candy House

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our...
The Steamie

The Steamie

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Author: Tony Roper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A novel based on the award-winning play Magrit, Dolly, Doreen and Mrs Culfeathers are the lifeblood of their Glasgow community and...
The Ship

The Ship

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Author: Antonia Honeywell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 WELCOME TO LONDON BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT Oxford Street burned for three weeks. The British Museum is occupied by...
The Woman Who Didn't Grow Old

The Woman Who Didn't Grow Old

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Author: Gregoire Delacourt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What happened to Betty is every woman's dream. Isn't it? There are those who never grow old because they are taken...
Harlem Shuffle: from the author of The Underground Railroad

Harlem Shuffle: from the author of The Underground Railroad

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Author: Colson Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF...
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

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Author: Christina Hopkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Mary doesn't know what makes her angrier - the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his...
Consent: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Consent: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

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Author: Annabel Lyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Saskia and Jenny - twins - are alike in appearance only. Saskia is a grad student with a single-minded focus on...
Miss Burma

Miss Burma

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Author: Charmaine Craig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny...
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 194 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord...
In Times of Fading Light

In Times of Fading Light

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Author: Eugen Ruge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind...
Three Little Words: They mean so much

Three Little Words: They mean so much

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Author: Jessica Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 They are just words but they mean so much. As a dark evening draws in, the lives of three women are...
Stasi Wolf: A Gripping New Thriller for Fans of Child 44

Stasi Wolf: A Gripping New Thriller for Fans of Child 44

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Author: David Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to...
Odysseus Abroad

Odysseus Abroad

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Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Delightfully witty . . . Luminously intelligent . . . Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the...
Hell of a Book: WINNER of the National Book Award for Fiction

Hell of a Book: WINNER of the National Book Award for Fiction

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Author: Jason Mott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 *WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021* 'Truly one hell of a book.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE 'Powerful,...
Wet Paint: The achingly poignant and darkly funny reader favourite

Wet Paint: The achingly poignant and darkly funny reader favourite

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Author: Chloe Ashby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'This isn't a book you read, but a book you step into . . . mesmerising' Emma Gannon Since the death...
The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel

The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel

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Author: Joe Ide Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit' IAN RANKIN 'A total gobsmacking original' JAMES PATTERSON 'A...
The Wrong End of the Telescope

The Wrong End of the Telescope

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Author: Rabih Alameddine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Favorite novel of...
Summer People: The captivating and page-turning poolside read you don't want to miss in 2023!

Summer People: The captivating and page-turning poolside read you don't want to miss in 2023!

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Author: Julie Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A perfect poolside page-turner' CLOSER 'Tender, complex, complicated and passionate. Stunning.' VERONICA HENRY 'So evocative. A great summer read!' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING...
there are more things: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and Orwell Prize for Fiction

there are more things: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and Orwell Prize for Fiction

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Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize & the Orwell Prize for Fiction A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year 'a...
Chouette

Chouette

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Author: Claire Oshetsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 * 'A marvel' Rumaan Alam * 'Frighteningly elegant' iNews * 'Harrowing and magnificent' New York Times * A FIERCE, DARK FABLE...
The Disenchantment

The Disenchantment

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Author: Celia Bell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A shimmering, sexy, thrilling tale of intrigue and desire, and the dark paths we walk to keep our secrets safe. Bell...
People Person: From the bestselling author of Queenie and the writer of BBC's Champion

People Person: From the bestselling author of Queenie and the writer of BBC's Champion

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Author: Candice Carty-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming. People Person is a triumph....
Sugar Street

Sugar Street

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Author: Jonathan Dee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the...
The Candy House

The Candy House

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD A Time Magazine Must-Read 'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's...
The Next Thing on My List

The Next Thing on My List

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Redback

Redback

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The Egg Collector

The Egg Collector

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The Bewitching

The Bewitching

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Author: Jill Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A literary page-turner . . . compulsive and thought-provoking' Paula Hawkins A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing...
Under the Same Stars: A beautiful and moving tale of sisterhood and wilderness

Under the Same Stars: A beautiful and moving tale of sisterhood and wilderness

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Author: Alexandra Heminsley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautifully written, with such heart. Not only did it make me cry, it made me see the world in a different...
The Republic of False Truths

The Republic of False Truths

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Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Glorious' Observer 'Amazing' Andre Aciman 'Masterly' Sunday Times 'Blistering' Financial Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his...
The Seaplane on Final Approach

The Seaplane on Final Approach

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Author: Rebecca Rukeyser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking bookuntil I devoured it in a single sitting ... A...
Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021

Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021

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Author: Sam Byers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion - a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and...
Perfidious Albion

Perfidious Albion

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Author: Sam Byers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened and is real. Fear...
Wild Pets

Wild Pets

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Author: Amber Medland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Wild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each...
Everyone Is Still Alive: The funny and moving fiction debut from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love

Everyone Is Still Alive: The funny and moving fiction debut from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love

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Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER? 'I can't stop thinking about it' Elizabeth Day 'A total triumph' Nina Stibbe 'Beautiful, moving...
Little White Lies

Little White Lies

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Author: Bernadette Strachan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Jilted bride Billie Baskerville is summoned by her Aunt Barbara to remotest Sussex - Aunt Babs is going to Australia on...
The Magnificent Sons: a coming-of-age novel full of heart, humour and unforgettable characters

The Magnificent Sons: a coming-of-age novel full of heart, humour and unforgettable characters

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Author: Justin Myers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Funny, beautifully observed and moving' Adam Kay 'Tales Of The City for a new generation . . . smart, touching, razor-sharp...
Godspeed

Godspeed

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Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.' Bart, Teddy and...
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

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Author: Marcel Theroux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A compulsively readable tale, all the better for being set in one of the most secretive countries in the world. In...