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Southern Ruby

Southern Ruby

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The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller

The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda

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'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'Alive to the beauty and mystery of the natural world as well...
Entry Island: An edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't forget

Entry Island: An edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't forget

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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one...
One Girl Began

One Girl Began

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'A beautiful novel . . . reminds us that our streets are thick with history'ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN'Both moving and addictive'JOANNA BRISCOE'Terrific'FRANCES QUINNTHREE WOMEN. ONE BUILDING. 111 YEARS . . .East...
In Such Tremendous Heat: A Read With Jenna Pick

In Such Tremendous Heat: A Read With Jenna Pick

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'BRING ON THE DRAMA' Cosmopolitan Best New Book of July 2023The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick'I couldn't put it down' Alice Clark-Platts'Slick, agile, and utterly engrossing' Taiye SelasiBasking...
Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe

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'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet...
Mayflies: 'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton

Mayflies: 'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton

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Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC AND THE EGG

Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC [...]

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'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN   'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER   'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREY     The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and...
The Antarctica of Love

The Antarctica of Love

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"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times"Stridsberg writes with chilling poise" New York Times"A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me awestruck" KATE REED...
Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: the unmissable final instalment in the internationally bestselling series

Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: the unmissable [...]

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  THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS READERS WORLDWIDE. NOW, THE COFFEE SHOP DOORS WELCOME YOU HOME ONE LAST TIME...Kabul, August 2021Sunny Tedder is back...
The Honeystone Village Diaries: The charming, feelgood read for 2024

The Honeystone Village Diaries: The charming, feelgood read for 2024

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A mile outside the Cotswolds, everyone knows everyone in Honeystone, and for many years the villagers have lived quiet, steady lives. But a wind of change is here...    ...
Sands of Dune: Novellas from the world of Dune

Sands of Dune: Novellas from the world of Dune

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Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune...
Love Letters: From the author of Richard & Judy's 'Search for a Bestseller'

Love Letters: From the author of Richard & Judy's 'Search for a [...]

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'Funny, sweet and relatable, this is a real gem of a read' Heat'Heart-stirring and quirky' Peterborough TelegraphSome old love letters. A lonely teenager. A new beginning . . .Asta Fung...
The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and unforgettable coming of age story

The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne: the brand new and [...]

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A powerful love letter to youth from Sunday Times bestselling author of Little Wing.When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you...
The Flying Man

The Flying Man

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Meet Maqil - also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and...
Titanium Noir

Titanium Noir

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'Nick Harkaway novels are electric' Patrick Ness, author of A MONSTER CALLS'Cross-genre brilliance' William Gibson, author of AGENCY'Captivating from start to finish' The Big IssueCal Sounder is a detective working...
Home: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Home: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKJack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make...
A Good House for Children: Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

A Good House for Children: Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best [...]

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'In her beautifully written debut, Kate Collins gives the haunted house novel a refreshing renovation, while retaining a deliciously chilling atmosphere that fans of Shirley Jackson will love. I was...
The Boy Made of Snow

The Boy Made of Snow

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'A haunting and thrilling read' Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'Original and unsettling - and just a little bit heartbreaking' Rachel Rhys, author of Dangerous CrossingIn...
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

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'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...
A Death in Cornwall: The thrilling next novel from the bestselling author of THE COLLECTOR & PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, for fans of David Baldacci and Lee Child

A Death in Cornwall: The thrilling next novel from the bestselling author of THE COLLECTOR & PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, for fans of David Baldacci and Lee Child

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A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . .The #1 internationally bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in this action-packed tale...
The Conversion: From the author of the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning The Labyrinth

The Conversion: From the author of the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning The Labyrinth

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Virtually Christmas

Virtually Christmas

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Just a Mother

Just a Mother

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The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half...
Reasonable People: A sharply funny and relatable story about feuding families

Reasonable People: A sharply funny and relatable story about feuding families

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"I love Caroline Hulse's books. She has an amazing ability to take unlikeable characters and make me fall unexpectedly in love with them. Reasonable People is warm, thoughtful, clever -...
The Carrier

The Carrier

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The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE meets the HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER"I don't think I have read such a philosophical, knowledge-studded and realistic adventure...
Hush: The heartbreaking and life-affirming debut novel which tells the truth about motherhood

Hush: The heartbreaking and life-affirming debut novel which tells the truth about motherhood

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What if the thing you most wanted feels nothing like you expected?A gripping, beautifully written and taboo-busting debut novel about motherhood and female identity. After five exhilarating years in New...
Big Girl: A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely incredible' Candice Carty-Williams

Big Girl: A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely incredible' Candice Carty-Williams

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A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD*'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay...
Johannesburg

Johannesburg

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6 December 2013. It is a searing hot day in Johannesburg. Gin has returned to the city of her birth to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday. She...
Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Bourne Evolution

Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Bourne Evolution

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The Alarming Palsy of James Orr

The Alarming Palsy of James Orr

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Author: Tom LeeFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 119g, 160 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning...
Queen Bee

Queen Bee

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Author: Ciara GeraghtyFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 300g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'Bridget Jones meets menopause...sharp, funny and real' Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief...
The Midnight Feast

The Midnight Feast

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Author: Lucy FoleyFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 540g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024WELCOME TO THE MANOR THE PARTY'S ON FIRE Readers are devouring it:'Delicious and darkly glamorous' LISA...
Wild Beings

Wild Beings

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Author: Dorien Brouwers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 We are curious, strong, and fierce / We are creators, explorers, and seekers / We can climb, leap and run... We...
The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming.

The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming.

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Author: Katherine Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 PRE-ORDER THE INSTITUTE, THE NEW HIGH-CONCEPT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BY KATHERINE BRADLEY, OUT SPRING 2025. 'Frightening and timely, Bradley's The Sisterhood is...
The Meadow Girls: A heartwarming World War I saga

The Meadow Girls: A heartwarming World War I saga

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Author: Sheila Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga from the bestselling author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret. August 1914. Twelve-year-old...
Mia and the Lightcasters

Mia and the Lightcasters

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A Daughter's Gift

A Daughter's Gift

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Author: Mollie Walton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Author shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award 2023' for A Mother's War North Yorkshire, September 1940. It's...
Windmill Hill: a gripping mystery of hidden secrets and loyal friendships

Windmill Hill: a gripping mystery of hidden secrets and loyal friendships

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Author: Lucy AtkinsFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 600g, 368 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023'Rich in charm and surprises' GUARDIAN'A transporting and entertaining read' THE TIMES'A triumph. Funny, mysterious, moving...
Don't Look Back: An addictive destination thriller from the author of The Trial

Don't Look Back: An addictive destination thriller from the author of The Trial

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Author: Jo SpainFormat: Hardback, 166mm x 238mm, 620g, 400 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023Your dream island. The love of your life. A secret that changes everything . . .'I...
Beneath Dark Waters

Beneath Dark Waters

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay

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Author: J. K. Rowling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Wizarding World journey continues The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of...
Just Got Real

Just Got Real

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Author: Jane Fallon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Queen of the Revenge Comedy turns her eye to online dating in her hilarious sharp new novel Joni never thought...
No Man's Land

No Man's Land

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Austerlitz

Austerlitz

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Author: W. G. Sebald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time...
Eleven Hours

Eleven Hours

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Dark Homecoming

Dark Homecoming

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Eva Mallory's Husband Hunt

Eva Mallory's Husband Hunt

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Author: Katherine Dyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'One of my favourite books of this year... the romantic and passionate scenes are some of the best I have ever...