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The Little Women Letters

The Little Women Letters

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Such Devoted Sisters

Such Devoted Sisters

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Redback

Redback

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The Floating Feldmans

The Floating Feldmans

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Just Like You: Two opposites fall unexpectedly in love in this pin-sharp, brilliantly funny book from the bestselling author of About a Boy

Just Like You: Two opposites fall unexpectedly in love in this pin-sharp, brilliantly funny book from the bestselling author of About a Boy

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Love and Miss Communication: A Novel

Love and Miss Communication: A Novel

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Things She Would Have Said Herself

Things She Would Have Said Herself

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Temple of the Grail

Temple of the Grail

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Burning Eddy

Burning Eddy

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The Next Thing on My List

The Next Thing on My List

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Funny Ethnics

Funny Ethnics

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How Beautiful We Were

How Beautiful We Were

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Author: Imbolo Mbue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A formidable storyteller' - Jonathan Franzen Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story...
Love, Hope: An uplifting, life-affirming novel-in-letters about overcoming loneliness and finding happiness

Love, Hope: An uplifting, life-affirming novel-in-letters about overcoming loneliness and finding happiness

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Author: Juliet Ann Conlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An unexpected letter. An unlikely friendship. A chance to start again. Ever since she first picked up a violin, Hope...
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 231 Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life...
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: Hardback 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...
Sojourn

Sojourn

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Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture...
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...
The Red-Haired Woman

The Red-Haired Woman

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Author: Orhan Pamuk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Saturated with...
A Girl in Winter: 'Beautiful.' Nina Stibbe

A Girl in Winter: 'Beautiful.' Nina Stibbe

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Author: Philip Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book' Andrew MotionThis compelling story of Katherine Lind and...
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...
The Quarry

The Quarry

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Author: Ben Halls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Halls' stories show that even in zero-hour, austerity-battered Britain, the tenderness and warmth of human connection exists. The Quarry is, in...
God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

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Author: Arinze Ifeakandu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it...
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...
The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient

The Maidens: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Silent Patient

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Author: Alex Michaelides Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together...
The May Bride

The May Bride

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Author: Suzannah Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years, that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was...
The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think

The Daughters of Madurai: Heartwrenching yet ultimately uplifting, this incredible debut will make you think

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Author: Rajasree Variyar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 ''Oh my goodness. If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5 I would' 'One of those books that...
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...
Euphoria

Euphoria

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Author: Elin Cullhed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed...
Gone to the Forest

Gone to the Forest

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Author: Katie Kitamura Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel...
Frying Plantain

Frying Plantain

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Author: Zalika Reid-Benta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'This is the book I've been waiting to read my entire life on the diasporic Caribbean experience. The writing is sharp,...
Pleasantville

Pleasantville

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Author: Attica Locke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses...
Mona

Mona

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Author: Pola Oloixarac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In...
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...
Scattered All Over the Earth

Scattered All Over the Earth

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Author: Yoko Tawada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...
Bodies of Light

Bodies of Light

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Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Ally Moberley grows up surrounded by her father's decadent paintings and her mother's disapproval. When bitterness and tragedy divide her family,...
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...
White Houses

White Houses

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena...
Gifts

Gifts

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Author: Laura Barnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this' TELEGRAPH 'A gorgeous festive tale' DAILY MAIL 'The...
The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times

The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times

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Author: Sophie Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2023 'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur'...
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...
Divine Evil

Divine Evil

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Author: Nora Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Famed sculptor Clare Kimball has the art world at her feet. But her success can't help her escape the nightmares that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Lonely Man

A Lonely Man

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Author: Chris Power Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' - Sunday Times 'Gripping.' - Financial Times 'A delicate snare of a novel . Alluring...
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...
Babylon

Babylon

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Author: Victor Pelevin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 As a poet, Tatarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in...