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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–39 (2)
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–39 (2)
ALEJANDRO DE QUESADA
This book offers an extensive overview of the myriad Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. The conflict was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. The study illustrates, textually and visually, how the Republican forces were initially varied in appearance and character. Loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejec...
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DICTATORS
DICTATORS
FRANK DIKÖTTER
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyr...
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THE DECAY OF LYING
THE DECAY OF LYING
OSCAR WILDE
In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde's goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its value...
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MED
MED
CLAUDIA RODEN
THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR FORTNUM AND MASON COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Claudia Roden channels the sun and warm glow of the Mediterranean. To read Claudia is to sit at her table, with everything, simply, as it should be.' - Yotam Ottolenghi 'I could not love this book more. A palpable instant classic, infused with wisdom, generosity and ...
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RECKLESS
RECKLESS
LAUREN ROBERTS
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES! Praise for Powerless: 'Nothing short of epic' Rosie Talbot, bestselling author of Sixteen Souls 'A thrilling fantasy with the most delicious slow-burn romance' M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood 'A masterpiece' Goodreads Reader Review 'Everyone needs to read it' TikTok Review 'The BEST book I've read' NetGall...
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WHITE NIGHTS
WHITE NIGHTS
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a...
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BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE
BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE
FREDRIK BACKMAN
A funny and uplifting tale of love, community and second chances from the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People See what readers are saying about Britt-Marie 'A truly delightful read. I highly recommend this book. If you loved Ove, you'll love Britt-Marie' Amazon reviewer, ? ? ? ? ? 'Beautiful book. I couldn't put it down. You can't help but...
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THE MOUNTAINS OF MADRID
THE MOUNTAINS OF MADRID
PHIL LAWLER / TIM PRICE
In this book, the third one in the Spanish Trails series, Phil Lawler and Tim Price present a range of walks in the mountain ranges to the north of Madrid. It will be surprising to many people to find mountains rising to over 2,400 metres (almost 8,000 feet) within one hour¿s drive of Spain¿s capital city. The mountains can in fact be clearly seen from the northern part of Madr...
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FLY AWAY
FLY AWAY
KRISTIN HANNAH
How do you hold yourself together when your world has fallen apart . . . Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They'd lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor, and now Tully was cast adrift - not knowing how she was going to survive. Kate's daughter, Marah...
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ULYSSES
ULYSSES
JAMES JOYCE
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive nov...
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STALIN'S NEMESIS
STALIN'S NEMESIS
BERTRAND M. PATENAUDE
Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, and a brilliant writer and orator. He was also a ruthless and authoritarian figure who could have become Lenins successor as ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time of the Second World War, he was a powerless exile in Mexico who had been refused entry to every country in Europe. Living in a villa borrowed fr...
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A HUNGER-ARTIST
A HUNGER-ARTIST
FRANZ KAFKA
The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and...
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A TIME OF BLOOD
A TIME OF BLOOD
JOHN GWYNNE
A Time of Blood, the second book in the Of Blood and Bone trilogy, is the spectacular sequel to A Time of Dread by John Gwynne. Defy the darkness. Defend the light . . . At the battle of Starstone Lake, Drem and his friends witnessed horrors they'll never forget. They saw magic warping men into beasts and a demon rise from the dead, creating something new and terrifying. So the...
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WENT TO LONDON, TOOK THE DOG: A DIARY
WENT TO LONDON, TOOK THE DOG: A DIARY
NINA STIBBE
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason 'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It's a break fro...
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THE PENINSULAR WAR
THE PENINSULAR WAR
J J HERRERO GIM NEZ / J. J. HERRERO GIMÉNEZ
The Peninsular War has been extensively studied by British historians for decades, even centuries, but the Spanish contribution to the conflict, which was fundamental to the defeat of Napoleon's armies, has been largely relegated to minor role. This book is an attempt to rebalance our understanding of the campaign in Iberia, written by a Spanish historian and translated into En...
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MILE HIGH
MILE HIGH
LIZ TOMFORDE
"You don't have to love your body every single day. That's unrealistic to expect, but I'll be here loving it for the days you can't." NEW EDITION OF THE WINDY CITY SERIES, FEATURING: ???New bonus content ???Updated cover design ???Series spine design ???Illustrated inside covers ZANDERS Chicago hockey isn't complete without me - everyone's favourite player to hate. I know my ...
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WHAT IS THE BIBLE?
WHAT IS THE BIBLE?
ROB BELL
The New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, using his inspired and inquisitive approach, focuses on the most widely read book of all time. He provides surprising insights and answers about how the Bible actually works as a source of faith and guidance, showing a brand-new way of reading this sacred text. Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When...
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FIVE LOSE DAD IN THE GARDEN CENTRE
FIVE LOSE DAD IN THE GARDEN CENTRE
BRUNO VINCENT
Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are keen to show Uncle Quentin what a jolly good chap he is. Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog as they celebrate Father's Day by taking Uncle Quentin to the l...
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The Booker Prize Shortlist 2025

  • FLESH
    FLESH
    DAVID SZALAY
    'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey 'Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn't f**k around' Gary Stevenson 'So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls 'How do I get out of a reading slump? This is the book to do that' Rhianna Dhillon, BBC Radio 4 Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hung...
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  • THE LAND IN WINTER
    THE LAND IN WINTER
    ANDREW MILLER
    ? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ? ? Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ? ? Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ? 'One of the best writers at work today' TELEGRAPH 'Has an uncanny beauty and depth... A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind' GUARDIAN 'Money, class, love...
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  • THE REST OF OUR LIVES
    THE REST OF OUR LIVES
    BENJAMIN MARKOVITS
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 An Observer 'Novel to look out for in 2025' and an FT 'Best Summer Read' 'Moving, smart and life-affirming.' OBSERVER 'Why aren't all novels like this?' THE CRITIC 'A triumphant twist on the great American road novel.' GUARDIAN 'So funny, wise and knowing.' CLARE CHAMBERS What's left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward...
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  • AUDITION
    AUDITION
    KATIE KITAMURA
    A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025 'An original' RACHEL KUSHNER 'Gorgeously disquieting' HERNAN DIAZ 'One of our most brilliant writers' LAUREN GROFF One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love ...
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  • THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY
    THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY
    KIRAN DESAI
    When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her ...
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  • FLASHLIGHT
    FLASHLIGHT
    SUSAN CHOI
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood 'A rich generational saga that teems with intelligence' Financial Times The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime One evening, ten-year-o...
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CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO
CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO
MATT DINNIMAN
*** PRE-ORDER THE SECOND BOOK IN THE GRIPPING AND EPIC DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES *** GREETINGS, CRAWLERS! THE TRAINING LEVELS HAVE CONCLUDED. THE GAMES MAY TRULY BEGIN. Now on the third floor of the dungeon, Carl and Princess Donut must fight harder than ever. They've already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. T...
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DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL
MATT DINNIMAN
***PRE-ORDER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE GRIPPING AND EPIC DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES *** THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the s...
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PROJECT HAIL MARY
PROJECT HAIL MARY
ANDY WEIR
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARACK OBAMA READING PICK SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN 'Weir's finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who...
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DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE
DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE
MAUREEN JOHNSON
An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller! From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself, now available in paperback. The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot eno...
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FEAST ON YOUR LIFE
FEAST ON YOUR LIFE
TAMAR ADLER
From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day."Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when we feel full is available to all of us," says writer Tamar Adler. Adler found relief and ease in spending a year recording inst...
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FALLEN STARS
FALLEN STARS
IMANI ERRIU
THE ELECTRIFYING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER HEAVENLY BODIES 'The Heavenly Bodies series officially has me in a chokehold' Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars 'It wouldn't be a surprise if this follows in the hallowed halls of Sarah J Maas' iNews 'A deeply romantic quest beyond death... impossible to put down' Shalini Abeysekara, This Monster of Mine *********...
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A HISTORIAN IN GAZA
A HISTORIAN IN GAZA
JEAN-PIERRE FILIU / CYNTHIA SCHOCH / TRISTA SELOUS
'The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I've travelled, has ceased to exist.' Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land's people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattere...
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HUSBAND OF THE YEAR
HUSBAND OF THE YEAR
M. A. WARDELL
PRE-ORDER THE FINAL BOOK IN THE TEACHERS IN LOVE QUARTET NOW! *** "M.A. Wardell's stories are sweetness and spice wrapped into a big warm hug." Alice Oseman, author of Heartstopper HUSBAND OF THE YEAR brings us back to Olan and Marvin as they finally tie the knot and say 'I do' in front of beloved characters from the series. But the journey down the aisle is never simple, a...
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DADDY ISSUES
DADDY ISSUES
KATE GOLDBECK
"Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!"—Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisA jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a single dad becomes her new neighbor and unexpectedly sets her life—and her heart—into motion in this modern love st...
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THE BOND THAT BURNS [HB SPECIAL EDITION]
THE BOND THAT BURNS [HB SPECIAL EDITION]
BRIAR BOLEYN
***Stunning hardback features include foil on board, designed endpapers and sprayed edges.*** It's THE hottest romantasy sensation that EVERYONE is talking about! What do you get if you mix Fourth Wing with Zodiac Academy, a dash of Arthurian legend, and lots and lots of vampires? Welcome to Bloodwing Academy. Expect magic. Expect competition. Expect blood. ?????? The reader ...
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I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED
I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED
JENNETTE MCCURDY
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCu...
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I, MEDUSA
I, MEDUSA
AYANA GRAY
From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine.The first edition hardcover will feature stunning sprayed edges, a premium dust jacket with foil, and a gorgeous custom-stamped case—while supplies last!"Ayana Gray brings her fresh...
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A MIDNIGHT PASTRY SHOP CALLED HWAWOLDANG
A MIDNIGHT PASTRY SHOP CALLED HWAWOLDANG
LEE ONHWA
*Available to pre-order now* A dessert from the Hwawoldang is a ticket to a new life . . . 'I adored this book . . rich, emotional and engaging' ***** Reader Review 'Amazingly beautiful and just what I needed at this point in my life' ***** Reader Review 'Heart-warming and full of gratitude and happiness. I loved it. And the Korean pastries all sounded delicious' ***** Read...
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LIGHTS OUT (SPECIAL EDITION HARDCOVER)
LIGHTS OUT (SPECIAL EDITION HARDCOVER)
NAVESSA ALLEN
A special edition hardback of the New York Times bestselling, viral TikTok sensation - now with sprayed edges and gorgeous exclusive endpapers! I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it. Trauma nurse Aly escapes her hard-working days by thirsting after masked men online. To her, no...
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ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS
ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS
JEANETTE WINTERSON
An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps ...
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DADDY ISSUES
DADDY ISSUES
KATE GOLDBECK
???? If you loved Problematic Summer Romance and Wild Card, you'll LOVE Daddy Issues - this sweet and spicy age-gap single dad romance is bound to be your next obsession!???? Sam doesn't take much interest in Nick, a surprisingly cute single dad, when he first moves in next door. After all, she's 26, working a dead-end waitressing job, navigating a situationship that's both to...
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EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
HEATHER FAWCETT
'A charmingly whimsical delight. . . Five dazzling, gladdening stars' India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels The third instalment in the enchanting light academia Emily Wilde books, about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves, from Sunday Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett. Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faerie...
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THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW
THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW
JAMES ISLINGTON
The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened-with what I fear is coming-I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything-and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself ...
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Secret Kingdoms Book Club

ENTER GHOST
ENTER GHOST
ISABELLA HAMMAD
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit he...
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THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK
THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK
JAMIL JAN KOCHAI
A finalist for the National Book Award - a luminous new collection of stories from a young writer with 'a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers' (New York Times) **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION** **NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ATLANTIC** PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai b...
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KAIROS
KAIROS
JENNY ERPENBECK
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, pun...
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A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL
A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL
REBECCA SOLNIT
A New York Times Notable BookChosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune"A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" —The New York Times Book Review"Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a su...
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THE SECRET HISTORY
THE SECRET HISTORY
DONNA TARTT
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction' The Times'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure' GuardianUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group...
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BORN ON A BLUE DAY
BORN ON A BLUE DAY
DANIEL TAMMET
'Born On A Blue Day' is a fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome. ...
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LEXICON
LEXICON
MAX BARRY
Two years ago, something terrible was unleashed in an Australian mining town called Broken Hill. Thousands died. Few people know what really happened. Emily Ruff is one of them. She belongs to an elite organisation of 'poets': masters of manipulation who use language to warp others to their will. She was one of their most promising recruits until she made a catastrophic mistake...
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MINA'S MATCHBOX
MINA'S MATCHBOX
YOKO OGAWA
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unf...
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THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
MARJAN KAMALI
'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love - this novel has everything' Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes From the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, ...
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THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
FRANTZ FANON
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earthmade him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and fi...
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PACHINKO
PACHINKO
MIN JIN LEE
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK ...
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THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
OCEAN VUONG
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION A Most Anticipated Book in Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times Style, BBC, GQ, New York Times and AnOther Desperate college dropout Hai is ready to make a devastating choice until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes the course of his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chanc...
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PALESTINE +100
PALESTINE +100
BASMA GHALAYINI
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolati...
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BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL
BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL
V. E. SCHWAB
From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into. Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, a...
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BLINDNESS
BLINDNESS
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not know what to make of the phenomenon - and soon goes blind himself. The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions t...
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THE PRINCESS BRIDE
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken. ...
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THE GOLDFINCH
THE GOLDFINCH
DONNA TARTT
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that ...
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OF ANTS AND DINOSAURS
OF ANTS AND DINOSAURS
CIXIN LIU
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile co...
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Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Shortlist

  • GOOD GIRL
    GOOD GIRL
    ARIA ABER
    A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery 'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A must-read ... Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh' Guardian 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berl...
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    21,25 €

  • THE PERSIANS
    THE PERSIANS
    SANAM MAHLOUDJI
    'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Mesmerising' MONICA ALI 'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN 'Funny and profound' TASH AW 'Wonderful' MARIAN KEYES A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down Meet the women of the Valiat...
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  • FUNDAMENTALLY
    FUNDAMENTALLY
    NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
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Untangle the SWAP
06/12/2025 20:00

Untangle the SWAP

A Secret History of the New Cold War with Drew Hinshaw
Book-Signing Event with Giles Tremlett
12/12/2025 19:00

Book-Signing Event with Giles Tremlett

Request your slot at 7.00pm, 7.15pm or 7.30pm

Madrid – defiance and generosity
15/01/2026 20:00

Madrid – defiance and generosity

Explore our shared history with Luke Stegemann
Something is stuck in my Tummy
17/01/2026 20:00

Something is stuck in my Tummy

Explore the role of storytelling with children with Carol Read