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  • HUNCHBACK
    HUNCHBACK
    SAOU ICHIKAWA
    'A must-read debut. Funny and frank, this book lingers in the mind long after you turn the final page' BBC Books of 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on ...
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  • THE HYPOCRITE
    THE HYPOCRITE
    JO HAMYA
    A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, THE DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND THE ATLANTIC 'Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A slippery, excellent exploration of sexual politics, creative appropriation, and family dynamics . . . It ...
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  • INSPECTOR IMANISHI INVESTIGATES
    INSPECTOR IMANISHI INVESTIGATES
    SEICHO MATSUMOTO
    'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child 'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating window into 1960s Japan' Paula Hawkins A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rai...
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  • WANDERING STARS
    WANDERING STARS
    TOMMY ORANGE
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK 2024 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations Colorado, 1864. Star, a young...
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  • THE DREAM HOTEL
    THE DREAM HOTEL
    LAILA LALAMI
    'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future ... An elegant meditation on identity, motherhood, and what we sacrifice, unthinkingly, for the sake of convenience' JENNIFER EGAN 'Extraordinary ... More than just a political warning; the book is an exploration of the psyche itself, the strange ungovernable forces of fate and emotion that make us human' RUMAAN AL...
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  • DREAM COUNT
    DREAM COUNT
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    A sweeping story about four women whose lives are shaped by love, longing, and pain. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in the US who is unlucky in love and coping with the pandemic on her own. Zikora, is a successful lawyer living in Washington DC who finds herself, unexpectedly, a heartbroken single mother. Omelogor is a scholar researching pornography for a Master's...
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  • FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
    FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
    AVA REID
    FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LADY MACBETH AND A STUDY IN DROWNING 'There's one thing about Ava Reid; she doesn't miss.' Sasha Peyton Smith 'You'll start saving space on your shelf for Ava Reid.' Kendare Blake --------- The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks ever...
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  • DREAM COUNT
    DREAM COUNT
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN A publishing event ten years in the making - a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists - the story of four women and their loves, longings and desires. '...
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  • BLUE SISTERS
    BLUE SISTERS
    COCO MELLORS
    'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE 'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR 'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN ...
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  • THE ARTIST
    THE ARTIST
    LUCY STEEDS
    'A blaze of a book, poetic, passionate and quietly powerful' Daily Mail 'The year's most lauded debut novelist . . . A sultry, headily perfumed portrait of monstrous male egos and oppressed overlooked women . . . The Artist uncovers its secrets by stealth' Telegraph 'Dextrous and powerful . . . a hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment' Guardian 'The Art...
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  • 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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  • FALL INTO TEMPTATION
    FALL INTO TEMPTATION
    LUCY SCORE
    From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over "Your kids are great," he said, changing the subject. "Don't be sweet. I can't resist sweet," Gianna warned him. "Your kids are monsters, and I hate your face." Beckett Pierce is the most eligible bachelor in the nosiest small town in upstate New York. But after his last girlfriend handcuff...
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  • THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS
    THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS
    HARUKI MURAKAMI
    Haruki Murakami's highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • THE POLE AND OTHER STORIES
    THE POLE AND OTHER STORIES
    J. M. COETZEE
    A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she...
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  • JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL. 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL. 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    SUSANNA CLARKE
    1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Stra...
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  • WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
    WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP
    HWANG BO-REUM
    WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading' iPaperThere was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a...
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  • PRIVATE RITES
    PRIVATE RITES
    JULIA ARMFIELD
    'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'Hauntingly good' iNEWS 'A must read' GLAMOUR 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There's no way to bury a body in earth w...
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  • BLUE SISTERS
    BLUE SISTERS
    COCO MELLORS
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawye...
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  • IN MEMORIAM
    IN MEMORIAM
    ALICE WINN
    GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage PortraitA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR“In Memoriam is the s...
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  • HELLO BEAUTIFUL
    HELLO BEAUTIFUL
    ANN NAPOLITANO
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! 'BEAUTIFUL, PERCEPTIVE, WISTFUL' Miranda Cowley Heller 'ANN NAPOLITANO'S WRITING IS ASTONISHING' Marian Keyes 'RADIANT AND BRILLIANTLY CRAFTED' New York Times ------------------------------------ Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls brin...
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  • BIRNAM WOOD
    BIRNAM WOOD
    ELEANOR CATTON
    Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For...
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  • SAHA
    SAHA
    CHO NAM-JOO
    From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in Sout...
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  • TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
    TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
    GABRIELLE ZEVIN
    THE BOOK EVERYONE LOVES: 'I loved this book' JOJO MOYES 'One of the best books I've ever read' JOHN GREEN 'The book that everyone should read' PANDORA SYKES, Stylist Live 'One of the few I really like a lot this year' JAMES PATTERSON This is not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back...
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  • DEAR DOLLY
    DEAR DOLLY
    DOLLY ALDERTON
    Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the p...
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  • DEMON COPPERHEAD
    DEMON COPPERHEAD
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpe...
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  • FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD
    FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD
    ELLE COSIMANO
    'I absolutely adored it!' ? ? ? ? ? 'These books are a blast!' ? ? ? ? ? 'My all-time favourite book character' ? ? ? ? ? Meet Finlay Donovan: - Single mum - Floundering crime writer - Accidental hit-woman Ever since she was overheard talking about her new book - and someone got the wrong end of the stick - she's been busier than ever, living the life of murder and mayhem usu...
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  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    SYLVIA PLATH
    One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Rebaï's beautifully atmospheric artwork. ...
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  • DEAD LIONS
    DEAD LIONS
    MICK HERRON
    *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following ...
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  • NEVADA
    NEVADA
    IMOGEN BINNIE
    Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters. After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the Pacific, embarking on her version of the Great ...
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  • THE SINGAPORE GRIP
    THE SINGAPORE GRIP
    J. G. FARRELL
    A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties,cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it ...
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