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The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Novel

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Novel

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Outside the Lines

Outside the Lines

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Just After Sunset Collector's Set

Just After Sunset Collector's Set

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Pastures Nouveaux

Pastures Nouveaux

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It Could Happen to You

It Could Happen to You

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The Betrayals

The Betrayals

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LOSE YOURSELF IN THE MOST EPIC BOOK OF THE YEAR.'BEAUTIFUL' JOANNA CANNON'MESMERISING' ERIN KELLY'TOTALLY ADDICTIVE' JOANNA GLEN'SUMPTUOUS' OBSERVER'DIZZYINGLY WONDERFUL' THE TIMESWINNING WAS EVERYTHING...UNTIL IT DESTROYED THEM Two young men, Leo...
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

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From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories represents some of Margaret Atwood's most witty, wise short stories. Discover this sharp, funny short story...
The Notebook Trilogy

The Notebook Trilogy

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Penny Draws a Secret Adventure: Brilliant illustrated fiction series for tweens dealing with anxiety

Penny Draws a Secret Adventure: Brilliant illustrated fiction series for tweens dealing with anxiety

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Instructions

Instructions

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Nineteen Letters

Nineteen Letters

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Ten Thousand Saints

Ten Thousand Saints

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The Hottest State

The Hottest State

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A Burning: The most electrifying debut of 2021

A Burning: The most electrifying debut of 2021

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A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in...
The Invisible Ones

The Invisible Ones

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Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he had promised to find Rose Janko. Rose...
Clarke

Clarke

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'Clarke is illuminated with such wonderful, vivid characters. Rarely have I felt so deeply invested in a story - I loved this book so much. Throsby is a supremely gifted...
Got You Back

Got You Back

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Novel about a man cheating on his wife, and what happens when the two women find out about each other.Jane Fallon is the multi-award-winning television producer behind shows such as...
Piglet

Piglet

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A claustrophobic novel - like a pot boiling over - Piglet charts the gap between how people see themselves and want to be seen. Her life is so full, so...
We'll Prescribe You a Cat

We'll Prescribe You a Cat

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For fans of TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, SHE AND HER CAT and THE GOODBYE CAT - this huge international sensation with a touch of magical realism tells of mysterious clinic where...
Gold Fame Citrus

Gold Fame Citrus

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'A Mad Max world painted with a finer brush' Elle 'An unforgettable journey into a hauntingly imagined near-future' Ruth Ozeki'Set in a drought-ravaged Southern California trolled by scavengers, Gold Fame...
The Sleep Watcher: The luminous new novel from Costa-shortlisted author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

The Sleep Watcher: The luminous new novel from Costa-shortlisted

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'Affecting . . . both tense and tender'Sophie Mackintosh, Observer'Thoughtful . . . nuanced and powerful'SpectatorOne summer, sixteen-year-old Kit's life is upended by a strange sleeplessness. While her body lies...
Sin: By the author of DAMAGE, inspiration for the Netflix series OBSESSION

Sin: By the author of DAMAGE, inspiration for the Netflix series

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'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name was Elizabeth Ashbridge. And I even...
Six Days In Rome

Six Days In Rome

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'A stunning writer and a brilliant transporting experience' Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women and Animal'Sensorial as hell... An ode to funky wine labels, good taste, and true inspiration,...
The Visiting Privilege

The Visiting Privilege

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Joy Williams' peerless short stories are unlike anything else. Her uniquely devastating, emotionally acute, morbidly funny portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for three decades. Here,...
Pelican Girls

Pelican Girls

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'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child'A celebration of complicity and love among women' Pilar Quintana, shortlisted for the...
Testament: Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

Testament: Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

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'Captivating' Heather Morris 'Beautiful' Andrew Miller 'Hugely poignant' Independent 'Moving' Sunday TimesLonglisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Winner of the Harpers Bazaar...
Austral

Austral

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"A multilayered exploration of ideas . . . [A] masterly voyage of discovery" New York Times"Fonseca's most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date" JAVIER CERCAS"An exceptional and...
For The Good Times

For The Good Times

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Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn PrizeBelfast, 1970s: Sammy and his three friends live in an impoverished area of the city that has become the epicentre of a country seemingly intent...
Banyan Moon

Banyan Moon

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The perfect book club read FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat'This novel...
Days Like Today

Days Like Today

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In these five stories, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle...
Cassandra

Cassandra

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Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of terrible war, Troy has fallen to...
Flamingo: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, an exquisite novel of kindness and hope

Flamingo: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, an

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A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearlessIn the garden, there were three flamingos. Not real flamingos, but real emblems, real gateways to a time when life was...
The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep

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When journalist Benjamin Schulberg discovers a link between lawyer Jim Grant and a notorious Vietnam-era fugitive, the world that Jim has carefully built for himself and his daughter collapses. Still...
Aue

Aue

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WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL aue (verb)...
Peace Breaks Out

Peace Breaks Out

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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is 1945. When peace breaks out at...
Music For Torching

Music For Torching

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Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family...
A Room Called Earth

A Room Called Earth

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A brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores a young woman's magical, sensitive, and passionate inner world. A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives,...
The High House: Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award

The High House: Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award

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Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen.The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy...
The Fighter: Now filmed as Rumble Through the Dark

The Fighter: Now filmed as Rumble Through the Dark

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aEURO~ExceptionalaEURO (TM) aEURO" Crime Review on The FighterA crooked nose. Scar slices across his forehead. Jack Boucher, he whispered and he shook his head. You ainaEURO (TM)t nothing but a...
The End Of Alice

The End Of Alice

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The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year...
The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

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'This terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material. Sylvia Plath's attention had...
The House Next to the Factory: As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

The House Next to the Factory: As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

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The House Next to the Factoryshows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is humdrum...
Underworld

Underworld

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Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants....
A Feather on the Breath of God: from the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of THE FRIEND, with an introduction by Susan Choi

A Feather on the Breath of God: from the National Book Award-winning

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From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and...
Fly Already

Fly Already

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Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're...
Vox

Vox

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Vox is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible...
Tomorrow

Tomorrow

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Every year Elisabeth Danzinger - an unassuming yet resolute middle-aged woman - travels to the Danish island of Mn to spend one week at a lavish hotel called The Tamarisks,...
Into The Great Heart

Into The Great Heart

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From the author of The Singing Guru and Rumi: Tales to Live By comes the second book in the Sikh Founder series about Bhai Lehna's journey from being Guru Nanak's...