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Queen Bee

Queen Bee

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Author: Ciara Geraghty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 She's earned her stripes. But the hive's misbehaving . . . Insomnia How do I have three extra adult males -...
The Return of the Young Prince

The Return of the Young Prince

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Author: A.G. Roemmers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A beautiful tribute to the international bestseller The Little Prince, with specially commissioned illustrations by the award-winning artist Pietari...
The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1

The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Graeme Simsion Format: Paperback...
The Octopus Man

The Octopus Man

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Author: Jasper Gibson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Astonishing' Stephen Fry 'Exceptional' Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning SHUGGIE BAIN 'Now is the time for this book' DBC...
The Sicilian

The Sicilian

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Author: Mario Puzo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to...
Something to Live For: 'Charming, humorous and life-affirming tale about human kindness' BBC

Something to Live For: 'Charming, humorous and life-affirming tale about human kindness' BBC

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Author: Richard Roper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Curl up with the page-turning story full of heart that has readers raving, about Andrew, who has forgotten how to live,...
Games and Rituals

Games and Rituals

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Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Superb' THE TIMES 'Joyous' THE OBSERVER The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of...
Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth

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Author: Antoine Wilson (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A struggling author is stuck at the airport, his flight endlessly delayed. As he stares at the departure...
The May Bride

The May Bride

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Author: Suzannah Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol...
Something New Under the Sun

Something New Under the Sun

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Author: Alexandra Kleeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Magnificent and stunning' Jeff VanderMeer 'An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless' Olivia Sudjic 'Expertly conjures California noir filtered through...
Cold Mountain: Hachette Essentials

Cold Mountain: Hachette Essentials

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Author: Charles Frazier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly...
Here I Am

Here I Am

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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer (University of Ottowa) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A monumental novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,...
The Porpoise

The Porpoise

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Author: Mark Haddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Old myths are broken, and a new voyage begins -- the major new novel from one of our most...
Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, Book 2)

Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, Book 2)

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Author: Jesse Sutanto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 They vow to make it a day to remember... The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For...
The Christmas Swap

The Christmas Swap

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Author: Sandy Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 "This was truly the Christmas romance of my dreams" 5 , Reader review Will all three women have their...
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

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Author: Sylvia Nasar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 558 The author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes the reader on a journey of discovery--how the greatest invention of...
All Our Shimmering Skies: the next bestselling novel from the author of Boy Swallows Universe

All Our Shimmering Skies

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Gone Tomorrow: (Jack Reacher 13)

Gone Tomorrow: (Jack Reacher 13)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Jack Reacher faces his most implacable enemy yet, in the double number one bestseller Lee Child. Enhances his status...
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...
Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 By addictive bestseller Lee Child, the brand new, action-packed, high-tension Jack Reacher thriller, which sees Reacher, at the end...
The Dry

The Dry

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The Giver of Stars: Fall in love with the enchanting 2020 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Me Before You

The Giver of Stars: Fall in love with the enchanting 2020 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Me Before You

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Author: Jojo Moyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and Still Me...
The Good Samaritan: An unputdownable page-turner with a heart-wrenching twist

The Good Samaritan: An unputdownable page-turner with a heart-wrenching twist

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Author: C J Parsons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Most spellbinding psychological thriller of the year! I swear I forgot to breathe in parts!' 5* review 'This is the...
Snow Country

Snow Country

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Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...
Eden

Eden

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Author: Candice Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Australian author Candice Fox has taken the crime-writing world by storm in the last few years and become a...
The Playground

The Playground

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Author: Julia Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Eve is starting again. Newly single, unemployed and with a baby daughter, she joins the local mums trying to...
How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

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Author: Carys Bray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a...
Perfume

Perfume

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Author: Patrick Suskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
So Happy For You

So Happy For You

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Author: Celia Laskey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller of 2022. 'A firecracker of a book' Micah Nemerever, author...
Postscript

Postscript

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You. The PS, I Love You Club. These are...
Valentine

Valentine

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Author: Elizabeth Wetmore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense...
Bad Fruit

Bad Fruit

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Author: Ella King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . . 'Unforgettable' RED - 'Memorable' OBSERVER - 'A family overflowing with secrets' LOUISE HARE...
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

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Author: Boris Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition. From the...
Armageddon in Retrospect

Armageddon in Retrospect

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death-a fitting tribute to the author, and an...
Crossroads

Crossroads

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Set in a historical moment of moral crisis,...
The High House

The High House

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Author: Jessie Greengrass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high...
Our Man In Havana

Our Man In Havana

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Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics...
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Elena Ferrante Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under...
The Undoing

The Undoing

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Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Get ready for The Undoing, soon to be the most talked about TV of 2020. From the creators...
Dog Park

Dog Park

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Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger...
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Author: Joan Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A reinvigoration of the iconic Australian classic that captivated generations of readers, featuring stylish new cover art and a...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

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Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie...
The Slave: A Novel

The Slave: A Novel

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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 311 Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high...
The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh

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Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...
Pan

Pan

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Author: Knut Hamsun Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 159 Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a...
A History of Loneliness

A History of Loneliness

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Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church...