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  • GOD OF RUIN
    GOD OF RUIN
    RINA KENT
    Discover the standalone dark mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation. 'This book was a masterpiece' ***** Reader review 'I couldn't put it down, definitely recommend and the spice omg' ***** Reader review 'Dark and delicious' ***** Reader review 'BookTok did not disappoint' ***** Reader review ______________________________________ Mia So...
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  • THE FAVOURITES
    THE FAVOURITES
    LAYNE FARGO
    To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. 'Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones and the Six . . . As brilliantly choreographed as a gold-medal performance' JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He wasn't. My first love was figure skating. Katarina Shaw has always known she's destined to become an Olympic skater. When she mee...
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  • THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
    THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
    MICAH NEMEREVER
    A compulsively readable debut novel about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. 'An utterly captivating fever dream of a novel.' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it's with the hope of moving past the recent death of his ...
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  • A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS
    A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS
    DYLIN HARDCASTLE
    1972. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, Australia, two teenage girls must each make a choice: to act upon their desires or suppress them? To live an openly queer life or to try desperately not to? Over the following three decades, these girls grow into women and live out their decisions, always almost crossing paths at pivotal moments. In an era that spans Australia's first...
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  • GOOD GIRL
    GOOD GIRL
    ARIA ABER
    **Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025** 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' Guardi...
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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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  • ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I
    ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I
    SOLVEJ BALLE
    'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff ** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** ** A NEW YORKER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR ** It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When...
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  • ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME II
    ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME II
    SOLVEJ BALLE
    ** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** 'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgård 'Miraculous.' The Cut 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz 'Wonderful.' K Patrick 'A total explosion: a new dimension.' Nicole Krauss The second volume of the landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time. I was sure that through careful listening you could solve any problem that might arise. If you really ...
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  • DJINNS
    DJINNS
    FATMA AYDEMIR
    For thirty years, Huseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul a new centre for his loved ones and a place for him to retire. But just as this future is in reach, Huseyin's tired heart gives up. His family rush to him, travel...
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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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  • OUR EVENINGS
    OUR EVENINGS
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thir...
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  • TREMOR
    TREMOR
    TEJU COLE
    This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature. Praise for Open City:'Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this nove...
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  • TELL ME EVERYTHING
    TELL ME EVERYTHING
    ELIZABETH STROUT
    It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and re...
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  • SMALL RAIN
    SMALL RAIN
    GARTH GREENWELL
    'A marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm TóibínA medical crisis brings one man close to death - and to love, art, and beauty - in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into th...
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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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  • BEWILDERMENT
    BEWILDERMENT
    RICHARD POWERS
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR 'Extraordinary' New York Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Heartfelt' Guardian Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Ro...
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  • ANYONE'S GHOST
    ANYONE'S GHOST
    AUGUST THOMPSON
    'It should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' - Crack 'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt Berninger of The National 'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set ...
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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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  • ORBITAL
    ORBITAL
    SAMANTHA HARVEY
    Life on our planet as you've never seen it before 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch ...
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  • MORE DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    MORE DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    SATOSHI YAGISAWA
    In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crowd the shelves an...
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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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  • THE FRAUD
    THE FRAUD
    ZADIE SMITH
    Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily Express SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 LONGLI...
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  • WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE
    WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE
    SHIRLEY JACKSON
    Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their fat...
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  • ONE LOVE
    ONE LOVE
    MATT CAIN
    Two men. Twenty years of friendship. One love. 'Lovely, funny, kind and truthful . . . I was expecting a simple will-they-won't-they, but it's wiser than that . . . challenging who we are, and why, and how we can change' Russell T. Davies 'A great eye-opening and heart-warming read' Fabulous 'A rich, funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest portrayal of friendship, love and e...
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  • PERFUME AND PAIN
    PERFUME AND PAIN
    ANNA DORN
    “Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.Having recently moved both herself and ...
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  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    JENNY ERPENBECK
    "Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos--an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fif...
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  • PROPHET SONG
    PROPHET SONG
    PAUL LYNCH
    'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on...
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  • YELLOWFACE
    YELLOWFACE
    REBECCA F. KUANG
    The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer 'Provocative' Mail on Sunday THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT'S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opp...
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  • THUNDERHEAD
    THUNDERHEAD
    MIRANDA DARLING
    'Darkly funny, astute, timely' Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep 'Powerful, restless, irresistible' Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up...
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