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Butterflies in November

Butterflies in November

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Author: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In a dark Icelandic November, the narrator sees her husband leave without a word of warning. At...
Ghachar Ghochar

Ghachar Ghochar

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Author: Vivek Shanbhag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to...
Certain American States

Certain American States

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Author: Catherine Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss...
The Stolen Child

The Stolen Child

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Author: Sanjida Kay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Zoe and Ollie Morley tried for years to have a baby and couldn't. They turned to adoption and their...
The Quiet American

The Quiet American

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Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece 'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan...
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage

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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished...
That Day in June

That Day in June

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Author: Martina Reilly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Eight years ago, Sandy ran away from home, and has done her best never to look back. Now, the...
Summary Justice: 'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times

Summary Justice: 'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times

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Author: John Fairfax Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was...
Ismael and His Sisters

Ismael and His Sisters

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Author: Louise Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate...
Interzone

Interzone

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Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Interzoneshows the evolution of William Burroughs from the terse, fiercely confessional writer ofJunkyto the wild, brutal fantasist ofNaked...
All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins

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Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 130 On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world...
The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman

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Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
The Wall LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

The Wall LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

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Author: John Lanchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Masterly...A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' - Guardian 'A 1984 for our times.' - Daily Express Kavanagh begins...
An Unreliable Man

An Unreliable Man

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Author: Jostein Gaarder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder comes a beautiful novel about loneliness and the power of words. Jakop is a...
The Cities of the Plain

The Cities of the Plain

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Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Volume Three of the Border TrilogyIn Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures...
The Sunrise

The Sunrise

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Author: Victoria Hislop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Intelligent and immersive... a poignant, compelling family saga' The Sunday Times The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the...
Killing Titan

Killing Titan

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Author: Greg Bear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A new planet. A new battle. Same war. After barely surviving his last tour on Mars, Master Sergeant Michael...
The Wallcreeper

The Wallcreeper

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...
Englands Lane

Englands Lane

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Author: Joseph Connolly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane,...
Blackwater the pulse-racing introduction to the DI Nicholas Lowry thrillers

Blackwater the pulse-racing introduction to the DI Nicholas Lowry thrillers

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Author: James Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 THE NEW ESSEX-BASED CRIME SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DI JACK FROST PREQUELS - PERFECT FOR FANS...
Heated Most Wanted Book 2

Heated Most Wanted Book 2

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Author: J. Kenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Sloane Watson is an undercover cop who is more than capable of standing on her own two feet. So...
Blacklight Blue

Blacklight Blue

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Author: Peter May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A CEREBRAL, CHILLING TALE BOUND TO BURNISH MAY'S REPUTATION." --Kirkus Reviews "AN UNUSUALLY COMPELLING, ONGOING SAGA" --Publishers Weekly "HIS...
What Happened That Night

What Happened That Night

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Author: Sheila O'Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's gripping new...
The Summer Theatre by the Sea

The Summer Theatre by the Sea

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Author: Tracy Corbett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Saunders sisters need a bit of Cornish magic this summer... Charlotte Saunders has always loved the buzz of...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
Chaos of the Senses

Chaos of the Senses

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Author: Ahlem Mosteghanemi (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Love always sits in a seat other than the one we were expecting it to, right alongside the...
The Good Soldier

The Good Soldier

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Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...
The Night of Wenceslas

The Night of Wenceslas

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Author: Lionel Davidson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights. In London, young Nicholas Whistler leads a disappointing...
The Passage (#1)

The Passage (#1)

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Author: Justin Cronin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES! An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil - now a global bestseller. Amy...
Call Me Zebra

Call Me Zebra

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Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra...
Look at Me

Look at Me

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Author: Sarah Duguid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 LOOK AT ME is a superb coming-of-age novel and an unsettling yet entertaining exploration of grief. Lizzy's mother died...
Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire

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Author: A.B. Yehoshua Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A husband and wife spend a week apart over the Hanukkah holiday: Daniela visits her widowed brother-in-law in Africa...
Borders

Borders

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Author: Roy Jacobsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle...
The Two Lives of Louis & Louise The emotional new novel from the Richard and Judy bestselling author of Together

The Two Lives of Louis & Louise The emotional new novel from the Richard and Judy bestselling author of Together

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Author: Julie Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It's BRILLIANT. I enjoyed it hugely' Marian Keyes ***** Two people. Two lives. One chance to see the same...
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair The million-copy bestselling sensation

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair The million-copy bestselling sensation

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Author: Joel Dicker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A crime story. A love story. More than 2 million copies sold worldwide. And now a major 10-part MGM...
The Dwarfs

The Dwarfs

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Author: Harold Pinter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is...
Naked Lunch The Restored Text

Naked Lunch The Restored Text

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Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves' Nightmarish and fiercely funny,...
When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad

When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad

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Author: Mona Yahia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is...
Collection of Sand Essays

Collection of Sand Essays

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display...
Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road

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Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and...
HHhH

HHhH

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Author: Laurent Binet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 327 HHhH blew me away... It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across.--Bret Easton Ellis, author of...
Bitter

Bitter

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Author: Francesca Jakobi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A novel to detonate the heart. Fans of Gail Honeyman and Joanna Cannon will love Bitter' A.J. Finn, author...
Hows Your Father

Hows Your Father

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Author: Rose Boyt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I am smiling. It ain't just me listening to our Maggie. Her voice carries all over the flats. I...
The Invisible Circus

The Invisible Circus

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Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s...
The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

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Author: Timur Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful...
How It Was the immersive

How It Was the immersive

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Author: Janet Ellis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A new, darkly compelling novel from Janet Ellis, author of the highly-acclaimed THE BUTCHER'S HOOK. 'Janet Ellis writes with...
The Temple House Vanishing

The Temple House Vanishing

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Author: Rachel Donohue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Power. Jealousy. Desire. Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace... In an elite...