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The House at the Edge of Night

The House at the Edge of Night

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Next in Line (William Warwick Novels)

Next in Line (William Warwick Novels)

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The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses

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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...
N-W

N-W

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Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s...
The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk

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Author: Ira Levin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The women of Stepford are not all that they seem... All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent,...
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...
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...
The House of Impossible Beauties: 'Equal parts attitude, intelligence and eyeliner.' - Marlon James

The House of Impossible Beauties: 'Equal parts attitude, intelligence and eyeliner.' - Marlon James

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Author: Joseph Cassara Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ballroom scene of...
Catch 22

Catch 22

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Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity,...
Violets

Violets

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Author: Alex Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and...
Ten Days

Ten Days

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Author: Austin Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Austin Duffy's uniquely dry, laconic style adds a subversive and compelling charge to this moving and intense story of the relationship...
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....
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....
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...
A Million Little Pieces: A shocking exploration of addiction

A Million Little Pieces: A shocking exploration of addiction

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Author: James Frey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Released in 2019 as a major motion picture starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Juliette Lewis 'Inspirational and essential' Bret...
The Hummingbird's Daughter

The Hummingbird's Daughter

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Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Extraordinary . . . deeply felt and beautifully told' Observer It is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and...
The Hummingbird: 'Magnificent' (Guardian)

The Hummingbird: 'Magnificent' (Guardian)

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Author: Sandro Veronesi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging...
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...
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...
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...
Sight: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Sight: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

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Author: Jessie Greengrass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 'A stunning debut' Guardian In Jessie...
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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Author: Hank Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 If you came across an absolutely remarkable thing at 3 a.m. in New York City, would you walk away . ....
If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

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Author: Judy Chicurel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Katie has been hanging around Comanche Street for three years and there are still times when it feels like she is...
Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe

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Author: Samuel Fisher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turning of the...
Barcelona Dreaming

Barcelona Dreaming

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Author: Rupert Thomson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked...
Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like Ôsomething on the bottom of someoneÕs shoe, and not even someone interestingÕ....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fevre Dream

Fevre Dream

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Author: George R.R. Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true - he has built the Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever...
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,...
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...
American Gods

American Gods

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Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS 'To give him...
Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys

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Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND COMPANION NOVEL TO AMERICAN GODS. 'Neil could never have known that he was writing...
The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 2

The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 2

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Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. In an abandoned mansion at...
This One Sky Day: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022

This One Sky Day: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022

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Author: Leone Ross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things...
The Long Shadow: By Celia Fremlin, Author of Uncle Paul

The Long Shadow: By Celia Fremlin, Author of Uncle Paul

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Author: Celia Fremlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Jolted from sleep by the ringing of the telephone, Imogen fumbles through the dark, empty house to answer it. At first,...
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...
Meanwhile in Dopamine City: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020

Meanwhile in Dopamine City: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020

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Author: DBC Pierre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Dopamine City is the story of Lonny Cush, sanitation worker and single parent, kind-hearted and red-blooded, who is trying his best...
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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Author: Chibundu Onuzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
The Book of Mother: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

The Book of Mother: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

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Author: Violaine Huisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a...
The Wedding

The Wedding

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Author: Dorothy West Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region,...
Room

Room

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Author: Emma Donoghue Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little...
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...
My Absolute Darling

My Absolute Darling

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Author: Gabriel Tallent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The...