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  • AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW
    AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW
    ZOULFA KATOUH
    An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go.This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of Lemon Trees, it features never-before-seen moments between Salama and Kenan. _...
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  • YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
    YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY
    AKWAEKE EMEZI
    *A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A ZOELLA BOOK CLUB PICK 'This book filled me with excitement and possibilities.' Jenny Colgan 'Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.' @savidgereads 'Say hello to the book of the summer' @bettysbooksuk 'Fantastic .[Bokinfo]. ...
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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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  • CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
    CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
    COCO MELLORS
    For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. [Bokinfo]. ...
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  • KINK
    KINK
    R. O. KWON / GARTH GREENWELL
    'This anthology of literary fiction features an all-star ensemble' Cosmopolitan 'A reflective and must-read collection' Stylist Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors incl...
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  • TOKYO EXPRESS
    TOKYO EXPRESS
    SEICHO MATSUMOTO
    In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not...
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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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  • THE ARSONISTS' CITY
    THE ARSONISTS' CITY
    HALA ALYAN
    "Feels revolutionary in its freshness." --Entertainment Weekly "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It's the kind of book we are lucky to have." --Rumaan Alam A rich family story, a personal look at the legac...
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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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  • MILK FED
    MILK FED
    MELISSA BRODER
    Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam - by her sundaes and her bo...
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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 LINE OF BEAUTY
    THE LINE OF BEAUTY
    ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?' In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic...
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  • SECOND PLACE
    SECOND PLACE
    RACHEL CUSK
    A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between o...
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  • ANXIOUS PEOPLE
    ANXIOUS PEOPLE
    FREDRIK BACKMAN
    The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a major Netflix TV series 'A brilliant and comforting read' MATT HAIG 'Funny, compassionate and wise. An absolute joy' A.J. PEARCE'A surefooted insight into the absurdity, beauty and ache of life' GUARDIAN 'I laughed, I sobbed, I recommended it to literally everyone I know' BUZZFEED 'Captures the messy e...
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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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  • ALMOND
    ALMOND
    WON-PYUNG SOHN
    A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever. This story is, i...
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  • SWIMMING IN THE DARK
    SWIMMING IN THE DARK
    TOMASZ JEDROWSKI
    Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. ...
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  • WRITERS & LOVERS
    WRITERS & LOVERS
    LILY KING
    #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayEmma Roberts Belletrist Book Club PickA New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." --Curtis Sittenfeld An extraordinary new novel of art, l...
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  • THE THINGS WE'VE SEEN
    THE THINGS WE'VE SEEN
    AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO
    In The Things We've Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Simón, used as a Franquist concentration camp during the Spanish Civil War, and witnesses events which impel him on a wild goos...
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  • ELENA KNOWS
    ELENA KNOWS
    CLAUDIA PIÑEIRO
    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022 After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the s...
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  • THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
    THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
    JENKINS REID, TAYLOR
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." --Bustle From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six--an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her ...
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  • THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
    THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
    MATT HAIG
    "'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well liv...
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  • GHOSTS
    GHOSTS
    DOLLY ALDERTON
    A 21ST CENTURY LOVE STORY AND TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utter BRILLIANCE . . . I absolutely LOVED it!' Marian Keyes, bestselling author of GROWN UPS 'I loved it' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE __________________________________________________ Everything gets easier in your thirties, right? Though she has plenty to celebrate - successful career,...
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  • THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
    THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
    RICHARD OSMAN
    'Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so VERY funny' Marian Keyes 'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' Ian Rankin 'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' Mark Billingham 'A gripping read' Sunday Times THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING, MULTI MILLION COPY SELLING SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN ---------------------------------------------- In a peaceful retireme...
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  • MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; w...
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  • THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN
    THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN
    LISA SEE
    The beautiful novel of female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-fema...
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  • PERFUME
    PERFUME
    PATRICK SUSKIND
    'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes in France. Yet there is o...
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  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    TAYLOR JENKINS REID
    "Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things....
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  • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and...
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