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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most...
The French Art of War

The French Art of War

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Author: Alexis Jenni (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I...
The Heart of Winter: Escape to a winter wedding in a beautiful country house at Christmas

The Heart of Winter: Escape to a winter wedding in a beautiful country house at Christmas

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Author: Emma Hannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Cosy up with The Heart of Winter by bestselling author Emma Hannigan and escape with this warm, magical novel...
The Chimes

The Chimes

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Author: Anna Smaill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A HIGHLY ORIGINAL DYSTOPIAN MASTERPIECE" --Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March "FOR ALL THE POETRY AND LYRICISM, THE CHIMES...
Ballistics

Ballistics

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Author: D. W. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 ___________________ Selected as one of The Waterstones Eleven, for the best fiction debuts of 2013, Ballistics is a...
The Rector's Daughter

The Rector's Daughter

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Author: F.M. Mayor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here...
Everything About You: Discover this year's most cutting-edge thriller

Everything About You: Discover this year's most cutting-edge thriller

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Author: Heather Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Black Mirror meets Gone Girl' Rosamund Lupton, Richard and Judy and Sunday Times bestseller 'Amazing, creepy, twisty and clever'...
The Song Collector

The Song Collector

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Author: Natasha Solomons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Fox, as the celebrated composer Harry Fox-Talbot is known, wants to be left in peace. His beloved wife has...
The Valentine House

The Valentine House

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Author: Emma Henderson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their...
At the Wolf's Table: A Novel

At the Wolf's Table: A Novel

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Author: Rosella Postorino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Germany, 1943. Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband, Gregor, is far away, fighting on the front lines of...
The Universe versus Alex Woods

The Universe versus Alex Woods

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Author: Gavin Extence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 This novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Alex Woods - born to a clairvoyant mother and a phantom father, victim of...
Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

Dial A For Aunties (Aunties, Book 1)

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Author: Jesse Sutanto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 'Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 304 They vow to make it a day to remember... The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial...
Silver Bullets

Silver Bullets

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Author: Elmer Mendoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 It's just another day at the office for Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta: abandoned by the woman he loves, demoralized...
Burial Society: A Novel

Burial Society: A Novel

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Author: Nina Sadowsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A woman running from a dark past stumbles upon a tangled nest of seductions and family secrets in this psychological thriller...
Friend Request

Friend Request

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Author: Laura Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller...
If You Leave Me: A Novel

If You Leave Me: A Novel

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Author: Crystal Hana Kim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 "An immersive, heartbreaking story about war, passion, and the road not taken." - People "One of the most beautiful and...
Safe Haven

Safe Haven

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Author: Nicholas Sparks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must...
Word: A Novel

Word: A Novel

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Author: Coerte V.W. Felske Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Heyward Hoon is a young screenwriter whose work consistently falls in the honourable category of good-but-not-commercial-enough. About the...
Hotel in Amsterdam

Hotel in Amsterdam

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Author: John Osborne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Six London friends, whose lives and work are overshadowed by a demanding film producer, flee the country for a...
The New World

The New World

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Author: Chris Adrian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What does love feel like beyond death? Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim,...
Kimberly's Capital Punishment

Kimberly's Capital Punishment

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Author: Richard Milward Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Kimberly Clark was born to the sound of cackling witches in 1984. Having moved to London to follow her...
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer,...
The Return of Norah Wells: THE FEEL-GOOD MUST-READ FOR 2018

The Return of Norah Wells: THE FEEL-GOOD MUST-READ FOR 2018

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Author: Virginia Macgregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One ordinary morning, Norah Wells walked out of her house on Willoughby Street and never looked back. Six years...
Shtum

Shtum

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Author: Jem Lester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project 'A...
The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame

The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame

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Author: Sarvat Hasin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Heartbreaking, beautiful, epic. I loved it.' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The Mercies What does it mean to be adored? Aida...
Impossible

Impossible

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Author: Sarah Lotz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Discover the love story of the year 'It's the book we all need right now' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'Warm, funny,...
Safe and Sound

Safe and Sound

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Author: Philippa East Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Don't miss Philippa East's gripping and suspenseful new novel, I'LL NEVER TELL, available to pre-order now! 'Tense' Araminta Hall...
Painted in Blood

Painted in Blood

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Author: Ilaria Tuti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of...
Stig of the Dump

Stig of the Dump

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Author: Clive King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Clive King's Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic. It is the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man...
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family 'A shining delight...
The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

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Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and...
The Year I met you

The Year I met you

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Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Jasmine loves two things: her sister and her work. And when her work is taken away she has no idea...
Return to the Italian Quarter

Return to the Italian Quarter

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Author: Domenica De Rosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A fascinating account of Italian life, written with skill and insight' Katie Fforde Sophie is only a quarter...
The Start of Summer

The Start of Summer

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Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Walsh writes with a warmth and humour about the disparate lives of four new mothers over one summer in...
One of the Family: the must-read, suspenseful novel you won't be able to put down!

One of the Family: the must-read, suspenseful novel you won't be able to put down!

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Author: Sadie Pearse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping and unputdownable read that will make you question just how far you would go to protect your...
The Crossed Out Notebook

The Crossed Out Notebook

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Author: Nicolas Giacobone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This stylish debut novel by an Oscar-winning Argentine screenwriter (he co-wrote BIRDMAN) is a suspenseful, darkly funny exploration of...
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019

This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019

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Author: Niven Govinden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book'...
Every Colour of You: The gorgeous, heart-warming love story readers can't stop talking about

Every Colour of You: The gorgeous, heart-warming love story readers can't stop talking about

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Author: Amelia Mandeville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 How can one person change everything? 'It truly broke my heart and put it back together again' Reader review...
The Testimony of Alys Twist

The Testimony of Alys Twist

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Author: Suzannah Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill....
With or Without You: A Novel

With or Without You: A Novel

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Author: Caroline Leavitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free." -People "With or Without...
Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A soulful and wild tribute to Kerouac's final road trip, new to Penguin Modern Classics Desolation Angels is the...
Five Steps to Happy: An uplifting novel based on a true story

Five Steps to Happy: An uplifting novel based on a true story

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Author: Ella Dove Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 AS SEEN ON ITV'S LORRAINE 'An up-lit treasure' Red magazine Life can change in a heartbeat... When struggling actress...
Privilege: A smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class set on a college campus

Privilege: A smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class set on a college campus

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Author: Mary Adkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Carter University: "The Harvard of the South." Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school...
Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

Three Single Wives: The devilishly twisty, breathlessly addictive must-read thriller

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Author: Gina LaManna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Up there with BIG LITTLE LIES and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' Claire Allan 'Divinely original . . . this rollicking tale...
Neon in Daylight

Neon in Daylight

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Author: Hermione Hoby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed...
The Art of the Body

The Art of the Body

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Author: Alex Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A bold, unflinching debut' GUARDIAN 'Brutal, tender, philosophical, visceral, complex and so well written' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH Maintaining one...
Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love and loneliness

Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love and loneliness

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Author: Kate Russo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life's most disconcerting feelings Bennett Driscoll is...