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    Sanctuary
    A young woman disappears into a world where the law does not reach. Abduction, violence, and trial, all unfold with terrible clarity and no relief. Nobody intervenes, no one answers, nothing is repaired. Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect. Institutions hold their shape but their force is gone. Power acts freely. Consequence...
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    Appointment in Samarra
    It begins with a drink thrown in a moment of anger—public, irreversible, and instantly understood. From that point on, everything closes in. Business relationships sour, social standing slips, money tightens, and the small evasions that once held life together stop working. What follows unfolds over just a few days, with a precision that makes every misstep feel both accidental and...
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  • Seek Immediate Shelter
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    Seek Immediate Shelter
    BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert. In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu's utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for...
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    Rangatira
    ‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te...
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  • Vulture
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    Vulture
    A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry. Vulture is a dark satire with real claws. ― The Independent A novel of honesty, humour and sadness told with great verve. ― Fergal Keane, author of The Madness Imagine Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag as a war correspondent and you'd get Sara, the cynical and raunchy...
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  • The Sisters of Hope Square
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    The Sisters of Hope Square
    From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All Blythe Carney ever wanted was to become a hotelier and run her family’s business, the Hope Square Hotel. But fate, and...
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  • The Sisters of Hope Square
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    The Sisters of Hope Square
    From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All Blythe Carney ever wanted was to become a hotelier and run her family’s business, the Hope Square Hotel. But fate, and...
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  • The Single Neighbour
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    The Single Neighbour
    The Single Neighbour is a cleverly observed and deeply authentic novel about a marriage in turmoil, and the power the past can have over our present. It's both arresting and engaging, with convincing characters and layers of intrigue as noted by Holly Miller. Tristan and Izzy are on the brink of marital breakdown. Sex has become less than perfunctory and...
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  • The Mulai
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    The Mulai
    An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to...
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    Out 13 Oct 2026
  • The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
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    The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
    UNSETTLING ~ WRY ~ TENDER An unusual and unforgettable take on what it means to be an outsider, an outcast, a misfit. Five thousand years after having escaped Crete, the Minotaur finds himself deep in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at Grub's Ribs. He leads a lonely life observing the haphazard...
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  • The Last Apartment in Istanbul
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    The Last Apartment in Istanbul
    I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved… Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his...
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  • The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest
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    The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest
    As dawn breaks, a woman prepares to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. A Japanese soldier resolutely obeys a command as precise as it is inexplicable. Two girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives. Enigmatic yet sharply...
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  • The Diary of a Nobody
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    The Diary of a Nobody
    Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, “the Laurels”, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in a City of London firm, begins to keep a diary. Over the next fifteen months, this diary will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations, as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and...
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    The Country Girls
    The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose—there's no one like Edna O'Brien. Anne Enright Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon. Megan Nolan We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places. Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who...
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  • Superstars
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    Superstars
    Paris, late 90s: at the centre of the city's queer techno scene, musician Louise lives in a haze of parties, drugs and hooking up. A group of women orbits her magnetic DJ ex-girlfriend Alex; as they bar hop, go to each other's sets and climb into each other's beds, Louise struggles to make rent and work on her own electronic...
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  • Suicide Blonde
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    Suicide Blonde
    FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATE A neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention. Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse, and meets Madison - Pig's daughter or lover or...
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  • Sugartown
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    Sugartown
    For fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwards. What do you do when you've ruined your own life? You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. But after her five-year...
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  • Peck & Peck
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    Peck & Peck
    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GLOBAL SENSATION LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY RETURNS . . . Peck & Peck tells the irresistible story of a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck. Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even...
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    Partita
    FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR "[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience" NEW YORK TIMES, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead) You've taken Demon to your hearts; prepare for another "emotionally raw, riotously entertaining" read as you meet Livia. Here's my question: How does a person step...
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  • Our Deadly Summer
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    Our Deadly Summer
    'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship … I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red 'Packed with...
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  • Our Deadly Summer
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    Our Deadly Summer
    'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship … I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red 'Packed with...
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  • Oddbody
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    Oddbody
    AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to 'purify' her mind, body and soul. Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating's stories...
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  • Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted
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    Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted
    [A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it. Guardian Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibrant symbolism Irish Times Hearts will be healed and hearts broken, but no one will leave this festival as they arrived… Viv has turned heartbreak into spectacle: a one-night-only masked festival at a French château, marking the anniversary of...
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  • Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
    These four Stefan Zweig stories, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joane Fontaine. Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile...
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    Out 6 Oct 2026
  • The Morisaki Bookshop Series Box Set
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    The Morisaki Bookshop Series Box Set
    This boxset includes the bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and its sequel More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. A young woman, lost and heartbroken. Her eccentric, optimist uncle. His wife, with a mysterious secret. Here, in this ramshackle bookshop in the Jimbocho area of Tokyo, these three people will heal their hearts, find connection and overcome loneliness. Hidden away,...
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  • Tenderness
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    Tenderness
    'A story of love, liars and secrets . . . Shady, sexy, suspicious - perfect summer holiday reading' The Times, 2026 Must-Read round-up Shay was no longer in the cult, but still, it made her wedding guests nervous that she was bringing them to an island . . . Just a few months after leaving the mysterious and dangerous cult...
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  • Hey Man
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    Hey Man
    If all that follows reads like a love story, that's what it was... Hey Man is the story of Ian and Tommy, whose rich and tender friendship stretches across three fateful decades. Their story begins in 1989, when seventeen-year-old Dubliner Ian finds himself lodging with thirty-year-old actor Tommy in London. A summer of long nights and early mornings leaves an...
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  • Ham On Rye
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    Ham On Rye
    RAW ∼ REBELLIOUS ∼ VULGAR Bukowski's take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel. Lifelong misfit Henry Chinaski grows up downtrodden, stumbling through a world he has only ever known as hostile. Fights, failed romances and humiliations abound; Chinaski toughens up as he grows up, finding solace in books and in the bottle. Savagely funny and profoundly...
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  • Half Light
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    Half Light
    In this remarkable novel, Mahesh Rao gives voice to the forgotten and the ignored, and my lord, what a voice it is. Half Light is steeped to a sublime perfection, an astonishing literary achievement. Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope High in the mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide traps the guests and staff of a crumbling...
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  • Golgotha
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    Golgotha
    Two men, decades apart, are ensnared in the deadly search for a fabled treasure in the conclusion to Lavie Tidhar's epic and audacious Maror Trilogy. 1882, Jerusalem The foreigner. A man with no name, twin guns at his hips, a wide-brimmed hat on his head. A European exile in the backwaters of Ottoman Palestine, the foreigner is a bounty hunter...
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  • Ghost Month
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    Ghost Month
    'Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny' JOANNA CANNON'Darkly comic and deeply felt' GRACE FLAHIVE Full of wit, heart and charm, Ghost Month asks a timeless question: do we only value life when we are reminded that it will end? Perhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be...
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  • Florenzer
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    Florenzer
    "A dazzlingly prescient parable of ambition, greed, and wealth rattling even the firmest foundations. Like the fractured Italy leaping from its pages full of life and sound and smell, Florenzer churns at the quicksilver pace of creation itself." ― Isa Arsén, author of Shoot the Moon Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to...
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  • Exhibition
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    Exhibition
    Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost....
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  • Everything Will Swallow You
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    Everything Will Swallow You
    One of our very best authors ... Very funny, very moving novel — The New World Charming portrait of friendship and loneliness — Daily Mail Deeply comforting — Guardian Funny, inventive and beautifully heart-breaking — Irish Times Eric and Carl live in Dorset in a small white cottage under the shadow of a big cliff. Eric sells old records and...
    By Tom Cox
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  • Death in Venice
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    Death in Venice
    As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is struck by the arresting good looks of Tadzio, an aristocratic Polish youth of around fourteen who is sojourning there with his family. Gradually, what starts as...
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  • Dad Had a Bad Day
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    Dad Had a Bad Day
    Since losing his job, Ned's sole responsibility has been to look after his six-year-old son while his wife works. When he one day finds his old tennis racquet buried in the garage, he also unearths a part of his former self. On a whim, and without his wife's knowledge, Ned rejoins his former tennis club - and finds life outside...
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    Boy A
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY COLIN WALSH, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KALA 'A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas' - Sarah Waters His new name is Jack. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To...
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  • Bone In The Throat
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    Bone In The Throat
    Blistering ~ Macabre ~ Irreverent Legendary chef Anthony Bourdain's crude culinary noir classic. When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's failing restaurant in Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. Between the chef's smack habit and a murder in the kitchen, Tommy finds that nothing he learned at...
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  • Black Male
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    Black Male
    A powerful, unsettling, universal novel about love and identity. "As far back as I remember, I was never taught to love. Truth be told, things haven't really progressed since." So begins the nameless protagonist's journal. An anthropologist from Senegal, thirty-three years of age (half of which spent in France), he doesn't know how to love, or who to be. Various...
    By Elgas
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  • Best Friends
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    Best Friends
    June cleans houses. Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. After lives spent picking up the pieces, he's not romantic material, and she's not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with other people at the age of 70 plus, they are unlikely companions, even more unlikely friends. Ray looks a...
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  • A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing
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    A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing
    Exquisitely written and utterly compelling - SUSAN BARKER The soul of a stylish mystery and the pace of an old-fashioned thriller - MOHAMMED HANIF Elegant, edgy and cinematic - EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY Anna has never met anyone like the enigmatic Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar, in the Japanese city of Osaka. While Anna teaches bored students by...
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    All Us Saints
    All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” – Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family...
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  • Aftertaste
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    Aftertaste
    Deliciously evocative, bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart – Elizabeth Day Kostya is working as a dishwasher when he discovers something extraordinary. The strange tastes that have flooded his mouth without warning since his father's death – aftertastes – are being sent by spirits seeking closure. Through his cooking, Kostya can help them find it. Maura is a psychic...
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  • A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
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    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
    Let Christmas live in your heart all year long with this luxe edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas to all! This timeless collection has warmed hearts for generations, and now you can pass it down to the next in this heirloom-quality volume. On Christmas Eve, cold-hearted, greedy Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted with his...
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  • Weepers
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    Weepers
    Ed is a weeper: a card-carrying member of an eccentric union who is hired to cry at funerals, wakes, and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country, have weathered so much death and disaster that the so-called normals have gone numb. Still, years of mourning can wear...
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  • To the Hermitage
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    To the Hermitage
    To the Hermitage tells two tales: a contemporary story of our narrator, a novelist, who has been invited to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project, and one set two hundred years earlier in which Bradbury brilliantly recreates Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and enlighten the mind of...
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  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
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    The Thirty-Nine Steps
    A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been adapted for stage and screen multiple times, including Alfred Hitchcock's famous film adaptation. ‘Ordinary fellow’ Richard Hannay returns home one night and is horrified to find a dead body. He recognises the murdered man as his...
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  • The Rouse
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    The Rouse
    From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise... Their answers may lie...
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  • The Reader on the 6.27
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    The Reader on the 6.27
    The beloved French bestseller by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27, shows how books truly are the answer to all life's problems. Parisian book pulping plant worker Guylain struggles to get the most out of his days, growing tired of the monotony of his life. His only joy comes from the spontaneity of his performances aboard the 6.27 metro,...
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  • The Memory Keeper
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    The Memory Keeper
    Sometimes ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference . . . Meet Gracie. At mid-life, she's fed up with her unhappy marriage and humdrum career, so when a new housing estate threatens to sever the last connection to her late father, the oak tree he planted as a child, she decides to take a stand—only, Gracie has never stood up...
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  • Summer Island
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    Summer Island
    From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, Summer Island is a poignant, warm and tender novel about a mother and daughter: the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since...
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  • Salutation Road
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    Salutation Road
    An Esquire Best Book of the Summer (2025) 'Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful' - Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize 2025 shortlisted author of Fundamentally 'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West 'We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection...
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  • Ply
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    Ply
    Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the vibrant downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through can be dangerous. She is right to be wary. But soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her...
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  • Please Enjoy Your Stay
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    Please Enjoy Your Stay
    A gripping page-turner you'll want to stay up all night to finish. - Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin's murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lies in this...
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  • New Skin
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    New Skin
    Horror, crime, and coming-of-age genres collide wildly in Sarah Wang's inventive and brilliant debut novel - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and The Four Spent the Day Together When Linli Feng returns home to LA after three years' absence she is aghast at what she finds. Her mother, Fanny, is unrecognisable. In her endless quest to achieve the...
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  • Eating People is Wrong
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    Eating People is Wrong
    Stuart Treece, a forty-year-old professor and head of English, now rather set in his ways (Hannibal Lecter is not on his syllabus), is made to feel somewhat alien by his encounters with a younger generation whose values are decidedly at odds with his own. In this witty tragi-comedy, the hero's attempts to come to terms with his new situation are...
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  • Among Friends
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    Among Friends
    A hard diamond of a novel... I have not stopped thinking of it since - Coco Mellors Every sentence keeps you hanging in the air, waiting for the next punch to the gut - Miranda Cowley Heller Packs a huge emotional punch. I couldn't put it down - Daily Mail A living thing... A huge achievement - Financial Times Perfect...
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  • Vanity Fair
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    Vanity Fair
    In Vanity Fair, two young women—sharp-witted Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley—navigate love, war, and society's hypocrisies in a world where charm and cunning often outweigh virtue. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray's masterpiece exposes the moral emptiness of Victorian England with biting humour and unforgettable characters. First published in 1847, this enduring classic remains one of...
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    Persuasion
    Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell hints that there is a better match to be found. Now eight years later, Anne's family has been forced to retrench and move to Bath. But while visiting her married sister, Anne meets Captain Wentworth again, who is now a wealthy...
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  • Middlemarch
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    Middlemarch
    This deluxe hardback edition presents George Eliot's enduring classic, Middlemarch, featuring stunning cover embossing and printed page edges. Described by some as the greatest novel in the English Language, Middlemarch paints a captivating portrait of provincial life at the time of the Industrial Revolution. The story follows the idealistic Dorothea Brooke and the pioneering Tertius Lydgate and their disastrous marriages...
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  • Emma
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    Emma
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    Rua
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  • Woman of Genius
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    Woman of Genius
    Immerse yourself in a brief encounter with Simone de Beauvoir, the pioneering feminist and existentialist thinker, in this pair of stories about two very different sisters and one disappointing man. Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them. Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a 'man...
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  • White Rabbits/Down Below
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    White Rabbits/Down Below
    Playful, sharp and fantastical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist. In 1940, Leonora Carrington — a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist — was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined...
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  • When the Museum is Closed
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    When Rika accepts an unusual part-time job at the museum, she never expects to fall in love with Venus herself, in the joyful new novel from the author of Japanese cult hit Diary of a Void. When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love. Rika has been tasked with talking to Venus,...
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  • We Were Forbidden
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    We Were Forbidden
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  • We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
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    We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
    The lives of three teenage girls are torn apart by a secret in this gut-punch of a novel set in Doncaster in the early noughties—for fans of Eliza Clark and Megan Nolan. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize From the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 'It feels...
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  • Well, That Escalated Quickly
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    The laugh-out-loud, painfully relatable new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, about the myth of having it all, and how snap decisions can lead to big changes... Meet Fran. This is her to-do list: buy milk get promoted book dentist swerve PTA meeting practice gratitude be a better friend stop crying in Morrisons rescue relationship organise life stop keeping...
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    The new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron: a sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America's best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso. From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl....
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  • Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)
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    Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with J.G. Ballard, sci-fi's psychedelic pioneer, and this short collection of his most mesmerising and mind-blowing stories from his invented desert dystopia: Vermillion Sands. Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue...
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  • Things: A Story of the Sixties
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    Things: A Story of the Sixties
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  • The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
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    The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
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  • The Song of Stork and Dromedary
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    Inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, this masterful, multi-award-winning book — acclaimed as the best Dutch novel published this century — pulls readers into a narrative that redefines time itself. In the early 1800s, in Yorkshire, Eliza May Drayden and her sisters live far from the public eye, devoted to their shared love of reading and writing...
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    The Scrapbook
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