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The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero

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Author: Paulus Hochgatterer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 "This is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth" New European "This tense novella builds to a...
Think of Me

Think of Me

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Author: Frances Liardet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must...
Back To You

Back To You

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Author: Tammy Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What happens when a couple are torn apart just at the moment when they fall in love? When Finn...
Tiger: shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

Tiger: shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

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Author: Polly Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 **The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of LARCHFIELD** 'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian 'Grabbed me by...
Darke Matter: A Novel

Darke Matter: A Novel

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 James Darke helped his beloved wife, Suzanne, die. And now he is holed up in his house waiting for his daughter,...
Darke Matter: A Novel

Darke Matter: A Novel

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Its snarky hero is a joy', a Times and Sunday Times Novel of the Year, 2020 'Clever, witty and...
Five Hundred Miles From You: the most joyful, life-affirming novel of the year

Five Hundred Miles From You: the most joyful, life-affirming novel of the year

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Author: Jenny Colgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express 'A sheer delight from start to finish' Sophie Kinsella ___________________________________ They...
An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

An Ordinary Wonder: Heartbreaking and charming coming-of-age fiction about love, loss and taking chances

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Author: Buki Papillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!......
Shadow's End

Shadow's End

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Author: Thea Harrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For Beluviel, consort to the Elven High Lord, and Graydon, gryphon and First Sentinel of the Wyr, even the...
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

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Author: Okechukwu Nzelu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 'A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness' Andrew McMillan 'Smart,...
Astroturf

Astroturf

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Author: Matthew Sperling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved Matthew Sperling's sly, subversive novel, a wickedly funny tale of how to come out on top in...
Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

Diamond Hill: Totally unputdownable and evocative literary fiction

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Author: Kit Fan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering...
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the...
Dark Horses: One of Oprah Magazine's 'Most Anticipated Books' this year

Dark Horses: One of Oprah Magazine's 'Most Anticipated Books' this year

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Author: Susan Mihalic Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Fifteen year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and out. Both...
The House on Fripp Island

The House on Fripp Island

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Brilliant' - The Times 'An absorbing summer read' - Mail on Sunday 'Gripping' - Sunday Times 'A skilful domestic...
Just the Plague

Just the Plague

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Author: Polly Gannon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report...
Red Crosses

Red Crosses

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Author: Sasha Filipenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment...
The Great Mistake

The Great Mistake

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Author: Jonathan Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903....
Em & Me

Em & Me

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Author: Beth Morrey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Glorious!' CLARE POOLEY 'Compelling' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Beautiful, uplifting and deeply moving' FREYA SAMPSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author...
Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel

Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel

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Author: Amir Ahmadi Arian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern...
Plume

Plume

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Author: Will Wiles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles...
The Imperfect Art of Caring

The Imperfect Art of Caring

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Author: Jessica Ryn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 One small act can make a big difference Violet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or...
Blonde

Blonde

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A sweeping, mesmerising novel of the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century. Joyce Carol...
All of You Every Single One

All of You Every Single One

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Author: Beatrice Hitchman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'I know,' he says, 'too much. You'll learn to be too much, too.' Then, gently, 'I think it might help.' When...
Madame Zero

Madame Zero

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Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes - rural, industrial,...
My Everything: the uplifting #1 bestseller

My Everything: the uplifting #1 bestseller

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Author: Katie Marsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 On the day Hannah is finally going to tell her husband of five and a half years that she...
The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In the spring of 1943, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day...
Fullalove

Fullalove

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Author: Gordon Burn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift...
The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Kurdish refugee Selim ends up in a small town in Germany, he believes he is finally safe, until...
The Child

The Child

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Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is...
Revolutionaries

Revolutionaries

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Author: Joshua Furst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the Year Fred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous...
Signs for Lost Children

Signs for Lost Children

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Author: Sarah Moss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In this companion novel to Bodies of Light, Ally's husband Tom leaves, only weeks into their marriage, to build...
White Elephant LP

White Elephant LP

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Author: Julie Langsdorf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans...
Here Goes Nothing

Here Goes Nothing

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Author: Steve Toltz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The virtuoso new novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted A Fraction of the Whole. 'Nobody was ever thinking...
Ceremony of Innocence

Ceremony of Innocence

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Neem has been investigating the secretive business of the wealthy Wilcox Smiths in Bahrain. When she goes missing, presumed dead,...
Trust Exercise

Trust Exercise

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Author: Susan Choi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'An alchemical work that blends truth and art into a heady, addictive brew' Atlantic Sarah and David are in...
A Beast in Paradise

A Beast in Paradise

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Author: Cecile Coulon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Emilienne's life is Paradise, her isolated farm at the end of a winding path. After the sudden death of...
The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous expose...
This Storm: A novel

This Storm: A novel

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Author: James Ellroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master. It is January, 1942. Torrential...
The Birthday Girl

The Birthday Girl

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Author: Melissa De La Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza comes a return to adult fiction, centered...
Berta Isla: A novel

Berta Isla: A novel

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances--at...
The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs

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Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the...
Those Who Knew

Those Who Knew

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Author: Idra Novey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple *...
The Death of Comrade President

The Death of Comrade President

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Author: Alain Mabanckou Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline...
The Coward

The Coward

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Author: Jarred McGinnis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Question: What's worse than being in a wheelchair? Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair. After a car accident Jarred discovers...
Zed

Zed

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Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, CEO of Beetle, has become one of the world's most powerful...
Femlandia

Femlandia

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Author: Christina Dalcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of VOX and Q 'A compelling, fast paced read.' Guardian 'The...
Outrageous Horizon

Outrageous Horizon

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Author: Adrien Bosc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 March 1941. A converted cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the...