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A River Enchanted

A River Enchanted

Rebecca Ross

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This beautiful edition features a reversible dust jacket, digitally sprayed edges and designed endpapers. A sparkling debut fantasy with Celtic tones set on the magical isle of Cadence where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan. Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence. The capric...

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The Artist

The Artist

Lucy Steeds

"All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it. The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks Joseph: a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he entangles himself in the peculiar hou...

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The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Eugene O'neill

Into a waterfront bar, full of life's failures, subsisting solely on their dreams, comes Hickey with his urge to make them face the truth. This play, first staged in 1946, is written by the author of Anna Christie and Strange Interlude, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. ...

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Yours For The Season

Yours For The Season

Uzma Jalaluddin

For an ambitious attorney and a rising-star chef, a cross-cultural fake romance takes an unexpected detour in a heartwarming and funny novel by the author of Much Ado About Nada and Ayesha at Last. When Sameera Malik and Tom Cooke meet at a ho-hum holiday party, neither is looking for romance. Sameera's working ridiculous hours at her law firm and healing from heartache while n...

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Axel Scheffler's Nursery Rhymes

Axel Scheffler's Nursery Rhymes

Axel Scheffler

A gorgeous board book collection of much-loved nursery rhymes illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the bestselling team of The Gruffaloand Zog. Climb up the waterspout with Incy Wincy, help the king's men try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, dance along with the cat playing his fiddle and so much more! Brought to life with Axel Scheffler's stunning illustrations, this collec...

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A Stranger In The House

A Stranger In The House

Shari Lapena

'Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please...' FIONA BARTON Why would you run scared from a happy home? You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work. You're making dinner, looking forward to hearing about his day. That's the last thing you remember. You wake up in hospital, with no idea how you got there. They ...

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Amongst Our Weapons

Amongst Our Weapons

Ben Aaronovitch

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES There is a world hidden underneath this great city... The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and van...

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A Life's Work

A Life's Work

Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk's controversial, funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood. ...

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Horsie

Horsie

Dorothy Parker

What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labor pains. Acerbic, pithy and vibrant, Dorothy Parker's writings capture the dizzying decadence of Jazz Age New York. Though Parker refuses to be swept along- she gleefully deconstructs its hypocrisy...

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One Dark Window

One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig

'An evocative tale of romance, mystery and alluring monsters, told in beautifully lush prose' Lyndall Clipstone, author of Lakesedge ELSPETH NEEDS A MONSTER. THE MONSTER MIGHT BE HER. An ancient, mercurial spirit is trapped inside Elspeth Spindle's head - she calls him the Nightmare. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When El...

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Immortal

Immortal

Sue Lynn Tan

To win the God of War's favour was wise - to fall in love with him would ruin me 'Lush, deeply romantic, and endlessly enchanting. Sue Lynn Tan is a master of both fable-like whimsy and epic, sweeping adventure' --Ava Reid, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning 'Treacherously beautiful and dazzlingly romantic. This book will steal your breath and your heart...

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Syria

Syria

John Mchugo

Syria's descent into civil war has already claimed an estimated 200,000 lives while more than nine million people have fled their homes. This is now the greatest humanitarian and political crisis of the twenty-first century. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and considers why Syria's foundations as a nation h...

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Medical Milestones And Crazy Cures

Medical Milestones And Crazy Cures

Chris Van Tulleken / Xand Van Tulleken

Think you know your smallpox from your bubonic plague? What did the Ancient Egyptians treat with powdered ostrich egg? How did body snatchers help 19th-century medical students? Why did the Ancient Romans recommend drinking wee? Dive in and find out the answers to these questions and many others as Dr Chris and Dr Xand draw back the bed curtains of history to take you on a tour...

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The Man In The Iron Mask

The Man In The Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a ...

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Wild Houses

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024** 'Beautiful...brings to life an entire world' SALLY ROONEY 'Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel' SUNDAY TIMES * It's the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change - the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author. In Ballina, the simmering fe...

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Don't You Dare (Alternate Cover)

Don't You Dare (Alternate Cover)

Ce Ricci

It was never meant to be more than a dare.A party game. A dare. A single kiss.That's all it took to flip my world upside down.I've always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.I didn't think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.Now, I can't stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn't.My best friend.Aspen.His taste is branded in my...

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The Disappearance Of Emile Zola

The Disappearance Of Emile Zola

Michael Rosen

Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Émile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had been to defend a wrongly convicted man, in what became known as the Dreyfus Affair. Fleeing the French state with just hours to spare he ended up living in the suburbs of south London unable to speak a word of English. Michael Rosen brings to life the sleepy world...

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Lighter Than Air

Lighter Than Air

Matthew Clark Smith

Take to the skies with the beautifully told tale of Sophie Blanchard - a woman meant for the air - as she discovers the incomparable sensation of flight.Behold the story of Sophie Blanchard, an extraordinary woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, "balloonomania" has fiercely gripped the nat...

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Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly

Josh Silver

'This is an incredible book ... tough and raw and merciless but funny and kind at the same time.' Russell T. Davies, writer of It's a Sin A BBC must-read book of 2026 - 'Sharp, dark and humorous, it's a real nailbiter.' Anyone can write a bestseller. Here's how. GO GAY It's been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with w...

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The Caretaker

The Caretaker

Marcus Kliewer

Follow the Rites... Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new 'titan of the macabre and unsettling' (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater--and more dangerous--than she...

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Silvercloak

Silvercloak

L. K. Steven

Two decades ago, the Bloodmoons ruthlessly murdered Saffron's parents, destroying her idyllic childhood. Hellbent on revenge, she lied her way into the elite Silvercloak Academy of detectives with a single goal: find a way to bring the Bloodmoons to justice. But on the eve of her graduation, her deception is expose, and she's given only one option: go undercover and tear the B...

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Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly

Josh Silver

'Fruit Fly is savage and darkly hilarious. A pointed satire of publishing with flawed, fascinating characters.' Juno Dawson 'This is an incredible book ... tough and raw and merciless but funny and kind at the same time.' Russell T. Davies, writer of It's a Sin Anyone can write a bestseller. Here's how. GO GAY It's been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensa...

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Divergent Deluxe Limited Edition

Divergent Deluxe Limited Edition

Veronica Roth

An unmissable, hardcover deluxe limited edition of the first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series: the story that inspired a major motion picture and captivated millions of teen and adult readers worldwide. This collector's edition features a stunning, completely foiled case, shimmering unique endpapers, a metallic reimagined cover, gorgeous de...

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Chopsy

Chopsy

Maya Jordan

"A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her"--Michael SheenA sharply funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition to the limitations and systemic inequalities of a working-class woman's life. Underestimated and overlooked at each stage and age, Maya Jordan's ambition and r...

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Audition

Audition

Katie Kitamura

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year 'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You'll gulp this novel down in one in-breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital 'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I'm not sure there's anyone be...

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The Tempest Blade

The Tempest Blade

Danielle L. Jensen

In the searing finale to the iconic Bridge Kingdom series, the battle for Ithicana comes to an epic conclusion--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood. PRE-ORDER NOW. A fugitive on the run, Ahnna has one goal: return to Ithicana with warning of the greatest threat her homeland has ever faced. But the man who broke her heart is hunting at her hee...

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Playing Possum

Playing Possum

Susana Monsó

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us abo...

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Football Superstars: Real Madrid Rule

Football Superstars: Real Madrid Rule

Simon Mugford

If you're a true fan of Los Blancos, then you need this book! One of the greatest football clubs in history, Real Madrid CF have not only dominated Spanish football but have also achieved massive international success - winning a record number of European Cups, as well as FIFA Club World Cups, UEFA Super Cups, and La Liga titles. In this fun and fact-filled book about Real Madr...

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Sour Fruit

Sour Fruit

Ahana Virdi

'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb 'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End 'Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go' TOBI COVENTRY, author of He's the Devil Love can really eat you up Avni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex. Tende...

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Penguin Readers Level 4: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library (Elt Graded Reader)

Penguin Readers Level 4: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library (Elt Graded Reader)

Michiko Aoyama

This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. In this story, Sayuri Komachi is a librarian who recommends books and gives gifts to people. She helps them find what they are really looking for in life. The books and gifts are special for each person. They show t...

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On The Calculation Of Volume Iv

On The Calculation Of Volume Iv

Solvej Balle

Tara Selter is one of many. In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate. As more people cont...

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Chasing The Fire

Chasing The Fire

Paisley Hope

Laurel Creek's fire chief is good at putting out fires and keeping secrets, but the town sweetheart is determined to burn through his defenses in the blazing-hot finale to the Silver Pines Ranch series. He's the moth to her flame. Can they risk getting burned? The owner of a popular boutique, Olivia Sutton is the darling of Laurel Creek. While Olivia may be as sweet as the ba...

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She Didn't See It Coming

She Didn't See It Coming

Shari Lapena

The gripping new psychological thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Everyone Here Is Lying. *NOW AN INSTANT GLOBAL BESTSELLER!* 'Lapena's books are addictive!' FREIDA McFADDEN, #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. 'Stunning: fiendishly plotted with whiplash twists and turns' LUCY FOLEY, Sunday Times bestselling a...

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Electric Shamans At The Festival Of The Sun

Electric Shamans At The Festival Of The Sun

Mónica Ojeda

The ear is the organ of fear. It is a door to that which is not of this world. Leaving behind the dread and decay of the city, Noa and her best friend, Nicole, travel up into the Andes, headed for Solar Noise: an eight-day festival that takes place in the infinite expanse of the páramo. Nestled on the side of a volcano, it is a world of mysticism, shamanism and underground m...

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The Doorman

The Doorman

Chris Pavone

'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD 'The kind of novel that wins book awards.' STEPHEN KING A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone's favourite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City's world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite. ...

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Empire Of Ai

Empire Of Ai

Karen Hao

Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Shortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI When long...

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Women's Prize for Fiction 2026

Flashlight

Flashlight

Susan Choi

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean emigre, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned. The disappearance of Louisa's ...

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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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A Guardian And a Thief
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The Others

The Others

Sheena Kalayil

Secrets, lies and love as the DDR collapses. It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from Mozambique, Lolita is a medical student from India, and Theo is an East Berliner who dreams of being a writer.When Armando and Lolita make a...

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Heart The Lover

Heart The Lover

Lily King

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent'Beautifully written ...

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The Correspondent

The Correspondent

Virginia Evans

In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp- stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word. But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she's led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at ...

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Gloria Don't Speak
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Paradiso 17

Paradiso 17

Hannah Lillith Assadi

'Miraculous' OMAR EL AKKAD 'Stunning' MAAZA MENGISTE 'Heartbreakingly urgent' JUSTIN TORRES 'Quite astonishing' JOY WILLIAMS 'Read it, read it, read it' RABIH ALAMEDDINE The intimate, sweeping tale of one man's restless search for home, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope. A New Arab most anticipated book of 2026. All his ...

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The Best Of Everything
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A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

Alice Evelyn Yang

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disa...

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Dominion

Dominion

Addie E. Citchens

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Wild Dark Shore

Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte Mcconaghy

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT'Spellbinding' Washington Post'A wildly talented writer' EMILY ST JOHN MANDELA family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world's largest seed bank. As Shearwa...

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Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Rozie Kelly

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Moderation

Moderation

Elaine Castillo

'Moderation is a novel that refuses to do things by halves. It is a piercing, laser-precise exploration of big tech... breathtakingly funny...and a highly charged, passionate and tender love story. A wonderful book.' Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, f...

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Secret Kingdoms Book Club

The Stationery Shop Of Tehran

The Stationery Shop Of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. And when Mr. Fakhri introduces her to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman, with his burning pass...

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Swimming In The Dark

Swimming In The Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. ...

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Our Missing Hearts

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

An instant New York Times bestseller - A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 - Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, and more - A Reese's Book Club Pick From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother's unshakeable love. "It's impossib...

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The Knight And The Moth

The Knight And The Moth

Rachel Gillig

'Dreamy prose, characters so vibrant they breathe on the page, a romance that smoulders, and a spellbinding world to get lost in. Prepare to meet your next obsession' Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals From New York Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced...

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The Compound

The Compound

Aisling Rawle

"Lily--a bored, beautiful twenty-something--wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like fo...

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Top Secret

Top Secret

Sarina Bowen / Elle Kennedy

A new paperback edition of the instant USA Today bestseller! Contains the bonus epilogue, too!LobsterShorts, 21. Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF.LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants...a threesome.SinnerThree: Then you've come to the right hookup app.LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy?SinnerThree: All the...

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Humankind

Humankind

Rutger Bregman

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind mak...

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Children Of Time

Children Of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne dis...

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Lessons In Chemistry

Lessons In Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Stylist, TLS, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, New York Times Notable, India Knight, Hay Festival and many others 'Sparky, ri...

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Babel

Babel

R. F Kuang

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Razor-sharp' DAILY MAIL 'An ingenious fantasy about empire' GUARDIAN Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spir...

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Spanish History Selection

A Brief History Of Spain

A Brief History Of Spain

Jeremy Black

A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme fr...

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Espana: a Brief History Of Spain

Espana: a Brief History Of Spain

Giles Tremlett

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and sty...

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Isabella Of Castile

Isabella Of Castile

Giles Tremlett

1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...

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The Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Inquisition

Henry Kamen

"In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences...

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Richelieu And Olivares

Richelieu And Olivares

J. H. Elliott

Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu...

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The Penguin History Of Modern Spain

The Penguin History Of Modern Spain

Nigel Townson

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...

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Explore the life and influence of Lucie Dumas
25/04/2026 - 20:00

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Leaven - Watch the World go Dark
21/05/2026 - 20:00 - Secret Kingdoms

Leaven - Watch the World go Dark

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Come of age with a Southern Chameleon
05/06/2026 - 20:00 - Secret Kingdoms

Come of age with a Southern Chameleon

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