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The Extra Man

The Extra Man

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Author: Jonathan Ames Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a...
The Animals In That Country

The Animals In That Country

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Author: Laura Jean McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION...
Corporal Hitlers Pistol

Corporal Hitlers Pistol

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA...
Showtime!

Showtime!

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Judy Nunn's latest bestselling novel will take you from the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of...
The Death of an Owl: From the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a witty tale of scandal and subterfuge

The Death of an Owl: From the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a witty tale of scandal and subterfuge

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Author: Paul Torday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into...
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their...
Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award

Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award

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Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in this new edition of Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter...
A Room Made of Leaves

A Room Made of Leaves

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Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a beautiful paperback edition What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John...
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin

The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin

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Author: Amanda Lohrey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A moving tale of grief, community and the possibility of starting over, by an award-winning Australian author. Erica Marsden's...
A Life Full of Holes

A Life Full of Holes

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Author: Larbi Layachi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a...
The Shadow List

The Shadow List

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Author: Todd Moss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary...
We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors

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Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A murderer's confession--devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable--which reveals a story of class, education, and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah...
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 206 Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the pageOn the 12th floor of...
Our Kind of Cruelty

Our Kind of Cruelty

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Author: Araminta Hall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "A searing, chilling sliver of perfection . . . May well turn out to be the year's best thriller."...
For a Little While

For a Little While

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Author: Rick Bass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
Beautiful

Beautiful

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Author: Massimo Cuomo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like...
Muscle

Muscle

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Author: Alan Trotter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the...
Your Deepest Fear: The darkest thriller you'll read this year

Your Deepest Fear: The darkest thriller you'll read this year

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Author: David Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A dark, shocking and relentlessly gripping thriller that will keep you up all night, for fans of Adrian McKinty's...
Happy Days of the Grump: The feel-good bestseller perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove

Happy Days of the Grump: The feel-good bestseller perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove

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Author: Tuomas Kyro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Everybody recognises the Grump, everybody knows a grump. And maybe there's a little grump in every one of us......
The Doll Funeral: from the bestselling, Costa-shortlisted author of The Girl in the Red Coat

The Doll Funeral: from the bestselling, Costa-shortlisted author of The Girl in the Red Coat

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Author: Kate Hamer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me...
She Would Be King

She Would Be King

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Author: Wayetu Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 "Wayetu Moore is an inspiration . . . her book is a gift" Imbolo Mbue "The book is unforgettable...
It All Falls Down: The truth doesn't always set you free

It All Falls Down: The truth doesn't always set you free

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Author: Sheena Kamal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Nora Watts is being hunted... When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father,...
Immigrant, Montana

Immigrant, Montana

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Author: Amitava Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's...
The Gunners

The Gunners

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What's the point in friends, if you can't share your secrets? The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang...
Capture or Kill

Capture or Kill

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Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Matt Logan is an MI5 agent for the British government. Working on the frontline of counter-terrorism in the UK...
Mouthpieces

Mouthpieces

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Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically...
Secrets of Happiness

Secrets of Happiness

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Author: Joan Silber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family - a...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 One of America's most original, truest voices' Salman Rushdie This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among...
The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'...
Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical novel. Hemingway's last major novel, set in...
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

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Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the...
Animal Farm

Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage...
The Emigrants

The Emigrants

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Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An innovative twentieth-century classic from a major European author At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives...
Beloved

Beloved

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Author: Toni Morrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things...
The Songlines

The Songlines

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Extraordinary - a remarkable and satisfying book' Observer Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The...
The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series

The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series

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Author: Iris Murdoch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A novel that offers uplifting lessons in love - now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series...
Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The novel Huxley considered to be his greatest achievement; an absorbing fusion of philosophical exploration and colourful narrative Sebastian...
In Watermelon Sugar

In Watermelon Sugar

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Author: The Estate of Richard Brautigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The Times 'A charming and...
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. If you loved BBC4's Hemingway,...
Blindness

Blindness

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Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation,...
High Fidelity

High Fidelity

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Author: Nick Hornby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 High Fidelity is Nick Hornby's hilarious and heart-breaking first novel bestseller Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five...
Good Eggs

Good Eggs

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Author: Rebecca Hardiman (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Meet the Gogartys; cantankerous gran Millie (whose eccentricities include a penchant for petty-theft and reckless driving); bitter downtrodden...
Home to Big Stone Gap

Home to Big Stone Gap

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Author: Adriana Trigiani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Utterly addictive' GLAMOUR If home is where the heart is, what happens when yours is torn in two? Big...
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...
All This Could Be Yours

All This Could Be Yours

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His...
The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians

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Author: Eimear McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH...
Silver Tears

Silver Tears

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Author: Camilla Lackberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A gripping new novel from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg She is safe... Faye...