Biographical fiction

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  The secret Christmas

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  The Puritan parliament has outlawed the celebration of Christmas, but when a theatre troupe begging alms turns up at Measham H...

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  The woman who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel

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  “A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring?An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman.” New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor

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  What does it feel like?

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  Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the l...

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  Night Side of the River

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  Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know everything about our world. But we know not...

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  The Sorrow of War

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  Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, ‘The Sorrow of War’ is revered as the ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ for our era’. Kien&...

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  A child’s Christmas in Wales & other stories and poems

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  A selection of the very best poems and stories by Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

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  The last dream

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  A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar. ‘The Last Dream’ brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archi...

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  The cauldron

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  This is a novel, although the battle and many of the incidents described in the book are true. Unless you have experienced war, it is impossible to imagine its grim reality. But ‘The Cauldron...

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  Diva

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  In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beau...

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  Weirdo

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  Deep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life after Sophie had finally stopped thinking a...

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  Night wherever we go

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  Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023

  ‘A hugely impressive debut’ SARAH WATERS

  ‘[A] haunting and mo...

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  The maiden

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  Based on the real life trial and execution of Lady Nimmo in seventeenth century Edinburgh, this is a gripping, feminist debut historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls and Sara Collins.

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  My father’s house

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  September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war’s outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O’Flaherty, dedicates himself to hel...

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  Briefly, a delicious life

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  When George Sand and Frédéric Chopin arrive at a monastery in Mallorca, the resident ghost, Blanca, falls head-over-heels in love with George – this striking woman in a man’s clot...

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  Shrines of gaiety

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  1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign ...

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  Elizabeth Finch

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  Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration – always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their ...

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  Songs in Ursa Major

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  Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid & A Star is Born, get swept away to the summer of love with this unforgettable, escapist hit?

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  The Magician

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  ‘The Magician’ tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, che...

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  Kim Jiyoung, born 1982

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  Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male te...

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  On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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  ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family&#...

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  Lark Rise To Candleford

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  A captivating evocation of rural life at the turn of the 19th century, presented in a beautiful collector’s edition with an introduction from Bill Gallagher, writer of the BBC television adap...

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  Daisy Jones and The Six: Read the hit novel everyone’s talking about

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  Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in...

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  Swan Song: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019

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  They told him everything. He told everyone else. Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean...

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  World War Z

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  Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the ten-year fight against the horde, World War Z brings the finest traditions of journalism to bear on what is surely the m...

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