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  • DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD
    DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD
    OLGA TOKARCZUK
    WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the comp...
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  • CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
    CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
    SAYAKA MURATA
    Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what t...
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  • GUAPA
    GUAPA
    SALEEM HADDAD
    "Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living amid the political and social upheaval of an unnamed Arab country. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The follo...
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  • DANCER FROM THE DANCE
    DANCER FROM THE DANCE
    ANDREW HOLLERAN
    'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert Everett Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for ...
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  • L.A. WOMAN
    L.A. WOMAN
    EVE BABITZ
    Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle, one with the promises of youth, the other with the fulfilment of nostalgia as they wend their way through the pink sunsets and t...
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  • THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
    THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    Holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path. It all begins with a father telling a story to his son on Christmas Eve. But this isn't your typical Christmas story. The father admits to his son that he's taken a life but he won't say whose--not yet. One week...
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  • THE NOTHING
    THE NOTHING
    HANIF KUREISHI
    One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a fêted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects...
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  • THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE
    THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE
    LISA SEE
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha p...
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  • DAYDREAM AND DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY
    DAYDREAM AND DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY
    CLARICE LISPECTOR
    'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavou...
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  • OUTLINE
    OUTLINE
    RACHEL CUSK
    A novel about writing and talking, self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form. ...
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  • TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE
    TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE
    JAMES BALDWIN
    Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerab...
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  • HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearni...
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  • THE SUBTLE KNIFE
    THE SUBTLE KNIFE
    PHILIP PULLMAN
    Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds... ...
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  • HEROES OF THE FRONTIER
    HEROES OF THE FRONTIER
    DAVE EGGERS
    THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'The mirror image of Eggers's brilliantly dystopian The Circle... [A] state of the nation novel, cleansing the spirit and lifting the heart' Guardian A hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it's time for the family vacation... Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a ...
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  • BOATHOUSE
    BOATHOUSE
    JON FOSSE
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse features an unnamed narrator who leads a hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Part stream-of-consciousness metafictive exercise, part gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle to revea...
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  • THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA
    THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA
    ISABEL ALLENDE
    INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE LOVER A captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our time Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her lover, European refugee and journalist Rolf Carlé, Eva answers his request for a story 'you have never told anyone before...
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  • THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR
    THE SPARSHOLT AFFAIR
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    "From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athle...
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  • PACHINKO
    PACHINKO
    MIN JIN LEE
    "In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Ja...
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  • THE NIGHTINGALE
    THE NIGHTINGALE
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom s...
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  • BEARTOWN
    BEARTOWN
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with Beartown--an instant New York Times bestseller--about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by th...
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  • MY GRANDMOTHER SENDS HER REGARDS AND APOLOGISES
    MY GRANDMOTHER SENDS HER REGARDS AND APOLOGISES
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    'A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief' Kirkus Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, this novel by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told the...
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  • HIGH-RISE
    HIGH-RISE
    J. G. BALLARD
    Now a major film: J. G. Ballard s compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos. Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Within the walls of an elegant forty-storey high-ri...
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  • THE BOOK OF TEA
    THE BOOK OF TEA
    KAKUZO OKAKURA
    'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celeb...
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  • A LITTLE LIFE
    A LITTLE LIFE
    HANYA YANAGIHARA
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEA Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoy...
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  • EILEEN
    EILEEN
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert ...
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  • BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE [BOOK CLUB]
    BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE [BOOK CLUB]
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    "Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She is not one to judge o...
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  • READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
    READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
    AZAR NAFISI
    For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they come to share th...
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  • AGUA VIVA
    AGUA VIVA
    CLARICE LISPECTOR
    In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent sponta...
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  • SPOILED BRATS
    SPOILED BRATS
    SIMON RICH
    Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in 'The Last Girlfriend on Earth', Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood - to Sell Out, the...
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  • THE INFATUATIONS
    THE INFATUATIONS
    JAVIER MARÍAS
    Every day, Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. And every day she watches a couple following the same routine. Then one day they aren't there. She comes across a photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street. When the woman returns with her children, who are then collected by a different man, a new light is shed on the death." ...
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