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  • I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI
    I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI
    BAEK SEHEE
    THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' RedPSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media di...
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  • BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE
    BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE
    NELL STEVENS
    Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 'Wildly seductive' - Sarah Waters 'Exquisite' - New York Times 'Deeply enjoyable' - Daily Telegraph Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a story about breaking convention, and about love - secret, forbidden, unrequited. Blanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love - instantly and devotedly - with celebrated nov...
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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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  • 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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  • LAPVONA
    LAPVONA
    OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
    An Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don't w...
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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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  • HEART BONES
    HEART BONES
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds. After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn S...
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  • TO PARADISE
    TO PARADISE
    HANYA YANAGIHARA
    The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A LITTLE LIFE To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Yanagihara's understanding of our desire to protect those we love - partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensues when we can...
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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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  • SNOW COUNTRY
    SNOW COUNTRY
    YASUNARI KAWABATA
    "If the ending is doomed at the beginning of the encounter, will you still pursue the snowflakes falling in your heart in vain?" Kawabata Yasunari's beautiful masterpiece carved over 13 years Nobel Prize for Literature, the first person in Japanese literature, Kawabata Literature A masterpiece that is second to none Liu Ziqian, a famous Japanese literary translator, uses conden...
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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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  • I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI
    I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI
    BAEK SEHEE
    THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLERTRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' RedPSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at ...
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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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  • CRYING IN H MART
    CRYING IN H MART
    MICHELLE ZAUNER
    One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss, which brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had ...
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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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  • THE FOUR WINDS
    THE FOUR WINDS
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    'A powerful, stirring, wind-swept tale set in Depression-era America that makes your heart break and soar in equal measure.' - Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library The Four Winds, an instant New York Times number one bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, is a deeply moving story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter,...
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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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  • REMINDERS OF HIM
    REMINDERS OF HIM
    COLLEEN HOOVER
    A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuil...
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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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  • BREASTS AND EGGS
    BREASTS AND EGGS
    MIEKO KAWAKAMI
    'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Maki...
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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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  • THE WHALE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
    THE WHALE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
    JOHN IRONMONGER
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Financial Times 'A tremendously enjoyable book' Independent on Sunday 'Bloody brilliant' Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House It all began with the whale. When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the vi...
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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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  • KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982
    KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982
    NAM-JU CHO
    The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. A GUARDIAN 'ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR 2020' A RED MAGAZINE 'CAN...
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  • THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    THE SONG OF ACHILLES
    MADELINE MILLER
    **OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD****A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has be...
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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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