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It Started with a Secret: The unmissable Sunday Times bestseller from author of MAYBE THIS TIME

It Started with a Secret: The unmissable Sunday Times bestseller from author of MAYBE THIS TIME

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Author: Jill Mansell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Jill Mansell's fabulous new novel AND NOW YOU'RE BACK is coming in January 2021. Pre-order now to be one of the...
Difficult Women

Difficult Women

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Author: Roxane Gay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past...
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...
Love, Betty: The heartwarming and uplifting romance you don't want to miss!

Love, Betty: The heartwarming and uplifting romance you don't want to miss!

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Author: Laura Kemp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Playful and joyous and packed with Laura's gentle warmth and wicked humour. Loved it!' MILLY JOHNSON 'A lovely, uplifting story' DEBBIE...
Paradise House: Set on the Pembrokeshire coast, a riveting and uplifting novel from one of our most popular writers

Paradise House: Set on the Pembrokeshire coast, a riveting and uplifting novel from one of our most popular writers

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Author: Erica James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Praise for Erica James 'A wonderfully humorous novel following the dysfunctional Baxter family' Woman's Own 'Completely absorbing' Sarah Morgan 'A brilliant...
Careless: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

Careless: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

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Author: Kirsty Capes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2021! 'Astounding. Heart-breaking but hopeful, and a...
Requiem For Harlem: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 4 - 'A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature'

Requiem For Harlem: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 4 - 'A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature'

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Author: Henry Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It...
Before We Say Goodbye: The addictive, heart-wrenching novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Before We Say Goodbye: The addictive, heart-wrenching novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Louise Candlish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Sometimes second chances are the most dangerous of all. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE 'A master of...
Red Mist: The ultra-authentic and gripping action thriller

Red Mist: The ultra-authentic and gripping action thriller

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 MALLORY IS BACK You've heard his true story - now go deeper into Ant Middleton's world with his ultra-authentic thriller series....
Adele

Adele

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Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of Lullaby 'Riveting.' - Evening Standard 'Explosive.' - Mail on Sunday 'Thrilling.' - Sunday Times 'A must-read.'...
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...
An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

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Author: Buki Papillon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking...
Dual Citizens: Shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2019

Dual Citizens: Shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2019

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Author: Alix Ohlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters....
Getting Over Mr Right

Getting Over Mr Right

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Author: Chrissie Manby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Have you ever had your heart broken? How did you get over it? Did a tub of ice cream cheer you...
Please Forgive Me

Please Forgive Me

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Author: Melissa Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Have you ever dreamed of running away? Of just leaving the past behind you? Leonie has done just that. She s...
Gods In Alabama: 'Dark, moving and very addictive' (Heat)

Gods In Alabama: 'Dark, moving and very addictive' (Heat)

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Author: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Lena Fleet goes to college, she makes three promises to God: she will stop fornicating with every boy she meets;...
The Butterfly Lampshade

The Butterfly Lampshade

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Author: Aimee Bender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of...
Towards Asmara

Towards Asmara

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Alter Ego

Alter Ego

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The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick for summer 2019

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick for summer 2019

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The Other Side of the Stars

The Other Side of the Stars

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Bluethroat Morning

Bluethroat Morning

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To Love, Honour And Betray

To Love, Honour And Betray

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Picture This

Picture This

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Imperium

Imperium

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The Fame Game

The Fame Game

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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the...
The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. Discover this...
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...
This Is Yesterday

This Is Yesterday

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Author: Rose Ruane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'This Is Yesterday is a song for the outsiders, a hymn to the suburban misfits. Here the tensions and oddness of...
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

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Author: Kenneth Grahame Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

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Author: Shehan Karunatilaka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa...
The Secret Life of Bees: The stunning multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey; poignant, uplifting and unforgettable

The Secret Life of Bees: The stunning multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey; poignant, uplifting and unforgettable

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Author: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own...
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...
The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape...
The Artist's Portrait

The Artist's Portrait

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Author: Julie Keys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020 'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor,...
Peaces

Peaces

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Author: Helen Oyeyemi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them...
Groundskeeping: 'An extraordinary debut' ANN PATCHETT

Groundskeeping: 'An extraordinary debut' ANN PATCHETT

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Author: Lee Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Cole's nimble debut combines elements of Southern fiction, the campus novel, and youthful romance.' ? Publishers Weekly 'This is the strongest...
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...
Essays in Love

Essays in Love

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Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Why do we fall in love - and why do we break up? Written in the style of a novel,...
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...
Burntcoat

Burntcoat

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Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Dark and brilliant.' - SARAH MOSS 'A masterpience.' - DAISY JOHNSON 'Extraordinary.' - SARAH PERRY In the bedroom above her...
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...
Akram's War: a novel of one young Muslim's journey to radicalization

Akram's War: a novel of one young Muslim's journey to radicalization

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Author: Nadim Safdar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time and place where he is supposed to detonate...
A Perfectly Good Man

A Perfectly Good Man

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Author: Patrick Gale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Devastatingly moving and full of psychological insight, A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN is a warm, humane Cornish novel from the bestselling author...
Letter from a Stranger

Letter from a Stranger

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Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Captivating and evocative, Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul...
A Loving, Faithful Animal

A Loving, Faithful Animal

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Author: Josephine Rowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature. New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious...
The Doll Funeral

The Doll Funeral

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Author: Kate Hamer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me what to...