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  • ANYONE'S GHOST
    ANYONE'S GHOST
    AUGUST THOMPSON
    'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer' - Matt Berninger of The National 'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times 'Electric' - Vogue IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be - hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake's van on their last night together, th...
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  • NOSTALGIA
    NOSTALGIA
    AGNES ARNOLD-FORSTER
    'Absorbing' - The Guardian 'Illuminating' - Vogue 'Fascinating' - Pandora Sykes In Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it ...
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  • FOUR SQUARES
    FOUR SQUARES
    BOBBY FINGER
    From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered once in the '90s, and then again thirty years later.For Artie Anderson to truly live, he'll need to take a chance on himself. Again. In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie...
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  • A LITTLE TRICKERIE
    A LITTLE TRICKERIE
    ROSANNA PIKE
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Striking, darkly funny and heartfelt ... Grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go' Ferdia Lennon, author of Glorious Exploits 'Crisp, transportive, uplifting ... I loved it!' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'A bold, funny and imaginative journey through Tudor England ... A real treat' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whal...
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  • BAD HABIT
    BAD HABIT
    ALANA S. PORTERO
    'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK TIMES 'Sublime' ÉDOUARD LOUIS A SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid. An unna...
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  • PARADE
    PARADE
    RACHEL CUSK
    WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 'A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.' OBSERVER 'Thoughtful and true ... Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.' INDEPENDENT 'Cusk's most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.' THE CONVERSATION A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life,...
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  • ODYSSEY
    ODYSSEY
    STEPHEN FRY
    Troy has fallen. After 10 years of war, the Greeks make their way back to their own lands - but what homes now await them? Agamemnon must return to his wife Clytemnestra, who has been nursing her rage since he sacrificed their daughter to the gods for a favourable wind. Her revenge will know no bounds. Meanwhile, Odysseus has angered the god Poseidon and he is cursed to wander...
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  • ATMOSPHERE
    ATMOSPHERE
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    AN EPIC NOVEL SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE 1980S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS WE GO TO LIVE AND LOVE BEYOND OUR LIMITS. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists J...
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  • INTERMEZZO
    INTERMEZZO
    SALLY ROONEY
    THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION 'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tender, funny page-turner.' OBSERVER 'Co...
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  • LONG ISLAND
    LONG ISLAND
    COLM TÓIBÍN
    Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times. The love ...
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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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  • ALL FOURS
    ALL FOURS
    MIRANDA JULY
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE, READING...
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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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  • THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP
    THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP
    MAI MOCHIZUKI
    Your NEXT BIG READ if you love BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD 'Lose yourself in a world of talking cats with this cult bestseller' GLAMOUR 'Feel-good fiction for those needing a redirection' BOOKLIST NO.1 BESTSELLER TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGES Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop with no fixed location or hours appears only where and when it's needed. It's run by...
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  • CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED
    CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED
    JESSICA STANLEY
    'LIKELY TO BE ONE OF THE BIG LOVE STORIES OF 2025' THE SUNDAY TIMES, Books to Look Out for in 2025 'I DIDN'T WANT IT TO END' LIANE MORIARTY, internationally bestselling author of BIG LITTLE LIES 'AS WARM AS A DAVID NICHOLLS NOVEL' STYLIST 'JOYFUL . . . I LOVED IT!' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Books to Watch in 2025 'CLEVER, JOYFUL AND SO FUNNY' NINA STIBBE, author of LOVE, NINA 'DEEPLY ...
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  • MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE
    MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE
    ISABEL ALLENDE
    'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel Allende Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of ...
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  • CAUTERY
    CAUTERY
    LUCÍA LIJTMAER
    Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good--the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive, creative friends--but for all her supposed freedom, her unhappiness means she's not living up to her side of the bargain...
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  • HERE ONE MOMENT
    HERE ONE MOMENT
    LIANE MORIARTY
    THE THRILLING NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off the scale brilliant' Marian Keyes 'A master story teller . . . brilliant and satisfying' Bella Mackie 'You will devour this doorstop of a book' The Times, Book of the Month - On a plane bound for Sydney the unassuming woman from seat 4D walks dow...
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  • PRECIPICE
    PRECIPICE
    ROBERT HARRIS
    A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WAR. AN AFFAIR ON THE EDGE OF SCANDAL. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession' Sunday Times 'His most enthralling yet . . . a slam dunk of a plot . . . extraordinary' Nicholas Coleridge, Independent 'Gripping . . . Harris also has the John le Carré gift for showing how meetings can b...
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  • OPEN, HEAVEN
    OPEN, HEAVEN
    SEÁN HEWITT
    TWO BOYS MEET. EVERYTHING CHANGES. * A Guardian, Irish Times and BBC Book for 2025 * 'Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace' ANNE ENRIGHT 'I loved it... Beautiful' FERDIA LENNON On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tende...
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  • FUN AND GAMES
    FUN AND GAMES
    JOHN PATRICK MCHUGH
    An Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025 'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY 'Lively, bighearted ... an utter joy to read' COLIN BARRETT 'Truly gorgeous ... a writer of immense talent' MICHAEL MAGEE 'Funny and heartbreaking' FERDIA LENNON A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland, from the ...
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  • TRISTESSA
    TRISTESSA
    JACK KEROUAC
    Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'. ...
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  • THE DAEMON LOVER
    THE DAEMON LOVER
    SHIRLEY JACKSON
    It's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important. Sometimes, the person you think you love isn't who they seem. And sometimes, you can be your own deception. Spanning Shirley Jackson's entire career, these devilish tales of love, death, and despair show us how all that keeps us safe in sub...
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  • TRANSFORMATION
    TRANSFORMATION
    MARY SHELLEY
    'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him' His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange bodies, entwining their fates. Transformation...
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  • THE VOYAGE HOME
    THE VOYAGE HOME
    PAT BARKER
    After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine - war-wife - to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by...
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  • THE END CROWNS ALL
    THE END CROWNS ALL
    BEA FITZGERALD
    When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the bargain, she discovers just how very far she has to fall. No one believes her visions, which all seem to be of one girl - a girl who is going to start a war. Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love - but is finding it elusive. Now she must n...
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  • THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    LISA MEDVED
    Two women, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years ... A stunning art history thriller set around the life, times, and feuds of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. 'An inspired blend of history and suspense ... This wonderful debut novel will inhabit your dreams' Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and Return t...
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  • HERA
    HERA
    JENNIFER SAINT
    The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint. 'An exceptional achievement' ELODIE HARPER 'A very special novel' COSTANZA CASATI 'The essential mythological book of the decade' NIKITA GILL When Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronus, helps her broth...
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  • THE TWENTYSOMETHING TREATMENT
    THE TWENTYSOMETHING TREATMENT
    MEG JAY
    Most twentysomethings don't have disorders that need to be treated; they have problems that need to be solved. In the face of an unknown future and a challenging present, our twentysomethings are struggling. From the threat of climate change to worries about affording a home, it is no wonder that many are suffering with severe anxiety and depression. They are also, however, a...
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  • THE CAT WHO SAVED THE LIBRARY
    THE CAT WHO SAVED THE LIBRARY
    SOSUKE NATSUKAWA
    The must-have sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa's bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books - an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl and the power of books to make a difference in the world. Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home...
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