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  • DIVINE MIGHT
    DIVINE MIGHT
    NATALIE HAYNES
    Get ready to meet the goddesses. In Divine Might, Natalie Haynes, the bestselling author of Stone Blind and Pandora's Jar, introduces us to the stories of the Greek goddesses. As fearsome, powerful and beloved as their male counterparts, it's time to look beyond the columns of a ruined temple to the awesome power within . . . We meet Hera, who, whilst most often known for ena...
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  • ROSEWATER
    ROSEWATER
    LIV LITTLE
    Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighbourhood gay bar. As Elsie tries to reconnect with her best friend Juliet, her fragile world spirals out of control. Can Elsie steady hersel...
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  • THE BEE STING
    THE BEE STING
    PAUL MURRAY
    WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME ...
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  • THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES
    THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES
    HISASHI KASHIWAI
    The first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is perfect for fans of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special resta...
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  • AMMA
    AMMA
    SARAID DE SILVA
    1951, Singapore. Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser. This event becomes the defining moment in the lives of Josephina, her daughter Sithara, and her granddaughter Annie. The effects cascade through generations as Annie sets out across the world to discover what happened to fracture her family. Set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and London, Amma is a novel ...
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  • CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
    CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
    NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
    FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' SUNDAY TIMES 'So good. This one is from the heart' STEPHEN KING *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR *LONGLISTED FOR THE TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 Ente...
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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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  • ENTER GHOST
    ENTER GHOST
    ISABELLA HAMMAD
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit he...
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  • PARADISE ROT
    PARADISE ROT
    JENNY HVAL
    "As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.”—Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickA lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman wh...
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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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  • THE INMATE
    THE INMATE
    FREIDA MCFADDEN
    A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars... As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendl...
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  • BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN
    BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN
    JESSICA KNOLL
    'Cleverly constructed [. . .] psychologically astute and written with flair.' - The Sunday Times 'A compelling, almost hypnotic read' - Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of None of This is True 'Bright Young Women is Jessica Knoll at her best: an unflinching and evocative novel' - Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me January 1978. Tallahas...
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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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  • CLYTEMNESTRA
    CLYTEMNESTRA
    COSTANZA CASATI
    Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent . . . meet Clytemnestra, the ancient world's most wronged woman . . . 'Vivid with fury, passion and strength, this is a fabulous myth retelling' JENNIFER SAINT 'A blaze of a novel, fiery and furious - and alight with murderous revenge' DAILY MAIL __________ She is born to a king but marries a tyrant. She watches helplessly as he sacri...
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  • GREAT SPANISH STORIES
    GREAT SPANISH STORIES
    VARIOUS.
    A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary...
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  • ATALANTA
    ATALANTA
    JENNIFER SAINT
    The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April 2021). 'Brilliantly evocative' Women & Home 'A spirited retelling' Times 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harper's Bazaa...
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  • THE MOST
    THE MOST
    JESSICA ANTHONY
    From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 A Barnes & Noble BEST BOOK of 2024 COSMOPOLITAN Novella of the Year 2024 'Clever, moving and unexpected. A ...
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  • SOMEWHERE ELSE
    SOMEWHERE ELSE
    JENNI DAICHES
    'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH About the bookRosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave b...
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  • WATER
    WATER
    JOHN BOYNE
    'One of the most assured novelists of his generation' Observer 'A master storyteller' Daily Express 'One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature' Colum McCann ___________ From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne comes a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. The first thing V...
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  • THE STRANGER'S CHILD
    THE STRANGER'S CHILD
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions ...
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  • BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the ma...
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  • REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    MONICA HEISEY
    The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Intoxicating ... heralds a really good author to watch' THE TIMES 'Hilarious and profound' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable' MARIAN KEYES 'Monica Heisey is a genius' NINA STIBBE One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt's Creek and...
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  • ONE NIGHT IN HARTSWOOD
    ONE NIGHT IN HARTSWOOD
    EMMA DENNY
    'A thrilling, heart-stealing historic romp and achingly romantic.' M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood 'A heartwarming tale of forbidden love that captured my heart from its opening page... Unputdownable.' Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York Oxford 1360 When his sister's betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arran...
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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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  • SPELLS FOR FORGETTING
    SPELLS FOR FORGETTING
    ADRIENNE YOUNG
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won't stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding."--JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true loveONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads Emery Blackwood's life changed forever the night...
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  • INANNA
    INANNA
    EMILY H. WILSON
    An enthralling and lyrical fantasy debut, and the first in an incredible new trilogy re-telling The Epic of Gilgamesh, perfect for readers of Madeline Miller's Circe and Jennifer Saint's Ariadne.A tale brimming with warring gods, rebellious humans, and the goddess of love caught between them whose destiny has the power to transform the shape of the world.Stories are sly things…...
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  • THE HUMANS
    THE HUMANS
    MATT HAIG
    'Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus' Guardian ...
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  • THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
    THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
    MAGGIE O'FARRELL
    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022) 'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be getting better and better' i newspaper 'Her narrative enchant...
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  • IT STARTS WITH US
    IT STARTS WITH US
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Multi-million copy bestselling author Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her firs...
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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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