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An Untamed State

An Untamed State

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Author: Roxane Gay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti s richest sons, she has...
A Feather on the Breath of God

A Feather on the Breath of God

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Author: Sigrid Nunez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing...
Platform Seven

Platform Seven

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Author: Louise Doughty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November...
The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

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Author: Timur Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful...
Mr Cadmus

Mr Cadmus

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...
Gallant (C-format Australia)

Gallant (C-format Australia)

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Number one New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab spins a dark, original tale about our world - full of life - a world that mirrors it - haunted by...
The Palace of Eros

The Palace of Eros

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WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD 'A brilliant and luminous writer' Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly...
Butcher

Butcher

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'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN'Delightfully disturbing' iNEWS'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and...
Smoulder: Anita Blake 29

Smoulder: Anita Blake 29

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'I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination' DIANA GABALDONAnita Blake, Vampire Hunter, goes up against an ancient evil set on destroying all she holds dear in the...
The Painter's Daughters: The award-winning debut novel selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club

The Painter's Daughters: The award-winning debut novel selected [...]

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THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLER SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUBWINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL COMPETITION'Beautifully written . . . I raced through it' HILARY MANTEL'As exquisitely and...
The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

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'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett'...
The Killing Game (Carson Ryder, Book 9)

The Killing Game (Carson Ryder, Book 9)

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Detective Carson Ryder's reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta, constructing his crimes to hit Carson's weak spot. He's coming to get...
Clairmont: The sensuous hidden story of the greatest muse of the Romantic period

Clairmont: The sensuous hidden story of the greatest muse of the Romantic period

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Author: Lesley McDowellFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 236mm, 640g, 400 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2024**The spellbinding, bold new retelling of the story of Lord Byron and the Shelleys, from...
Murder in Autumn: A Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery

Murder in Autumn: A Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery

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Author: Lesley CookmanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 202g, 288 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023The deliciously twisty twenty-fourth novel in the much-loved Libby Sarjeant series by Lesley Cookman. Libby...
The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

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Author: Alice WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 240g, 272 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED...
Hell Bent: The instant Sunday Times bestselling global sensation from the author of The Familiar

Hell Bent: The instant Sunday Times bestselling global sensation from the author of The Familiar

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Author: Leigh Bardugo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO NINTH HOUSE THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2023 __________________ Wealth....
The Ojja-Wojja

The Ojja-Wojja

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Author: Magdalene Visaggio Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The first in a new graphic novel series from indie comic stars Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge is a coming-of-age story...
The Maid (A Molly the Maid mystery, Book 1)

The Maid (A Molly the Maid mystery, Book 1)

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Author: Nita Prose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *Molly the maid returns . . . Nita Prose's brand new novel, THE MYSTERY GUEST, is available to pre-order now!* _________________________________________________________________...
Golden Child: Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019

Golden Child: Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019

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Author: Claire Adam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD It's dark now; the bats are...
The Riders

The Riders

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Below Deck

Below Deck

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Cloud Atlas: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Cloud Atlas: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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The Luminaries

The Luminaries

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44 Scotland Street

44 Scotland Street

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Close Quarters: Introduced by Helen Castor

Close Quarters: Introduced by Helen Castor

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Author: William Golding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world. A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled...
Jessica

Jessica

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Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park

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The Distant Hours

The Distant Hours

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The House of Hidden Mothers

The House of Hidden Mothers

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Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...
Mister Pip

Mister Pip

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The Girl Who Couldn't Stop Arguing

The Girl Who Couldn't Stop Arguing

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Author: Melissa Kite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Madison Flight refuses to be born for five days. She comes out eventually kicking, screaming, and scarred for life by forceps...
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize

Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize

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Hazards of Time Travel

Hazards of Time Travel

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society 'Unrelentingly disturbing'...
The Great Fire

The Great Fire

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The Passage of Love

The Passage of Love

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Americanah

Americanah

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some...
Handle with Care

Handle with Care

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Secrets of the Tides

Secrets of the Tides

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Author: Hannah Richell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are...
House Rules

House Rules

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In/Half

In/Half

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Author: Jasmin B. Frelih Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 It's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network. In this post-Internet world, three...
Youngblood Hawke

Youngblood Hawke

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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Hailed as a tremendous novel, full of wisdom and pain by the Los Angeles Times, Youngblood Hawke is Pulitzer Prize winner Herman...
A Book of American Martyrs

A Book of American Martyrs

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 "Oates' American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country...Martyrs is a...
Selection Day

Selection Day

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Author: Aravind Adiga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "The most exciting novelist writing in English today" A. N. Wilson Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at...
Isobel's Wedding: A bride-to-be's worst nightmare...

Isobel's Wedding: A bride-to-be's worst nightmare...

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Author: Sheila O'Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In ISOBEL'S WEDDING from no. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan, Isobel faces every bride-to-be's worst nightmare. Not to be...
Dream Count

Dream Count

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Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
Nocilla Trilogy

Nocilla Trilogy

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A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy - made up of the novels Nocilla Dream , Nocilla Experience and Nocilla Lab - is a project for...
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins

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Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, ersula, have started their...
When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story of secrets, family and betrayal . . .

When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story

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  At night, in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, carrying warning of visitors at her gate . . . Huda, a secretary...