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The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller

The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller

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The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America

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The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty

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Author: Alan Hollinghurst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade...
Bring up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

Bring up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...
The Vegetarian: A Novel

The Vegetarian: A Novel

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Author: Han Kang (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners;...
Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

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Author, David W. Blight Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 912 **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

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Author: Katherine Boo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF...
Normal People

Normal People

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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity...
Lovely Bones: A Novel / Alice Sebold.

Lovely Bones: A Novel / Alice Sebold.

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"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is...
Bel Canto (The Perennial Collection)

Bel Canto (The Perennial Collection)

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The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of 'The Magician's Assistant', winner of the Orange Prize, repackaged and promoted as part of Perennial's fiction...
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories

Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories

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Elizabeth Strout's acclaimed novel Olive Kitteridge is now the basis for a HBO drama starring Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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THE FIRST BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe,...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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#1 New York Times Bestseller - New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21 st Century - The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill...
Lola In The Mirror

Lola In The Mirror

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Author: Trent DaltonBinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, GB, 2023Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling novel, Lola In The Mirror, chronicles the extraordinary journey of a young woman navigating...
Where is the Green Sheep? Celebration Book

Where is the Green Sheep? Celebration Book

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CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER! A special foiled edition of Mem Fox and Judy Horacek's wildly wonderful adventure in search of the green sheep. THE MILLION COPY...
Bel Canto: Annotated Edition

Bel Canto: Annotated Edition

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A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a...
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY

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WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 'Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

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History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long...
The Women: The Instant Number One Bestseller from the author of The

The Women: The Instant Number One Bestseller from the author of The

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An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture! "Utterly absorbing. Kristin Hannah is singular in her ability to tell unforgettable stories about some of the...
The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Hunger Games Trilogy

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Author: Suzanne CollinsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Scholastic, 2012Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSuzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy presents a gripping fusion of dystopian fiction...
We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin

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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005 Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian?s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher....
Stasiland

Stasiland

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Stasiland Insight Text Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in-depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and...
Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series

Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series

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Tie-in edition of the bestselling, Costa Award-winning novel; now a major four part BBC1 Drama series starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford and James McArdle. SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC1...
Still Life

Still Life

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME PICK 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton, author of Home Stretch 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author...
Breath

Breath

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Breath is set in a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war between north and south. The war may be over but people's memories are long and hatreds...
Question 7

Question 7

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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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#1 New York Times Bestseller - New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21 st Century - The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill...
Station Eleven

Station Eleven

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CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's...
The Song of Achilles: Dyslexia Friendly Edition

The Song of Achilles: Dyslexia Friendly Edition

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Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. **OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A...
Carpentaria

Carpentaria

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One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright's Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy...
Life Of Pi

Life Of Pi

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Since it won the 2002 Booker Prize, Life of Pi has gone on to sell nearly 2 million copies, it is the biggest selling winner of all time, and is...
The Book Thief

The Book Thief

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The extraordinary #1"New York Times"bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi...
The Road

The Road

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With an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no...
God in Search of Man: a Philosophy of Judaism

God in Search of Man: a Philosophy of Judaism

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Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume , Man Is Not Alone...
A Man Called Ove: The global bestselling phenomenon

A Man Called Ove: The global bestselling phenomenon

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The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for...
Boy Swallows Universe

Boy Swallows Universe

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*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* 'Electric' The Times 'Thrilling' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR...
Life Of Pi

Life Of Pi

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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from...
Station Eleven

Station Eleven

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Shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards Observer Thriller of the Month DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports...
The Road

The Road

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The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the...
The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

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First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are...
The Rosie Project

The Rosie Project

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The international bestselling romantic comedy "bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and...humor," ( Entertainment Weekly ) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love. The...
The Slap

The Slap

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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon,...
Middlesex

Middlesex

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY * A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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* Winner of the Costa First Novel Award * No.1 Sunday Times bestseller * Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo...
Death's End

Death's End

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The final instalment of China's best-selling, award-winning apocalyptic space opera trilogy that ranges from the 1960s to the heat death of the Universe. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction...
The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest

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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones . Imagine the universe as a forest,...