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The daylight gate
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Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches’ Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial a...
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Pine
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Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their ho...
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False Value: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with Ã©migrÃ© Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence S...
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Tales from the Cafe
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The second novel from the author of the phenomenon, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: more tales from Cafe Funiculi Funicula, where customers may travel back in time – if they obey the rule...
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The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
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When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With ‘The Testaments,’ the wait i...
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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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Agent Running in the Field
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the ...
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Dutch House: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020
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Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania taken on by his property developer father. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his b...
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Night Boat to Tangier
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It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has c...
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Machines Like Me
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Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers ...
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Queenie: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
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Queenie Jenkins can’t cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That’s definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there’s her b...
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Big Sky
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The return of Jackson Brodie, ex-military, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, now private investigator, ‘a hero for men and women alike’. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village...
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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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Pachinko
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Yeongdo, Korea 1911: A club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old beauty. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the f...
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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
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Okada is apparently a happy man – his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with ...
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Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
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He is a maths professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a head injury 17 years ago, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is a housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, ...
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Killing Commendatore
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The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of ‘1Q84’ and ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’, ‘Killing Co...
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Before The Coffee Gets Cold
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A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
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Where The Crawdads Sing
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How long can you protect your heart? For years, rumours of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase And...
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Newcomer: A Heartwarming, Feel Good Novel Perfect for the Easter Holidays!
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Cornwall is only a page away in this gorgeous, heartwarming novel – a wonderful read for the summer holidays!

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‘A warm, easy read...
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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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Lies Sleeping
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Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for many counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizar...
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I who have never known men
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Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there and only vague notions of their lives before. As the burn of electric li...
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Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
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Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from ...
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Western Wind
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Oakham, near Bruton, is a tiny village by a big river without a bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found. Was it murder, o...
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The daylight gate

Pine

False Value: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Tales from the Cafe

The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Agent Running in the Field

Dutch House: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020

Night Boat to Tangier

Machines Like Me

Queenie: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award

Big Sky

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

Pachinko

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

Killing Commendatore

Before The Coffee Gets Cold

Where The Crawdads Sing

Newcomer: A Heartwarming, Feel Good Novel Perfect for the Easter Holidays!

Cornwall is only a page away in this gorgeous, heartwarming novel – a wonderful read for the summer holidays!

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

Lies Sleeping

I who have never known men

Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

Western Wind

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