Narrative theme: Interior life

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Atalanta
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When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and rai...
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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, to find an answer to the question: what would you do if you could go back? For fans...
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Really good, actually
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The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller

An Observer Best Debut of the Year

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Lucy by the sea
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In March 2020 Lucy’s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, ex...
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Lolita
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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous mag...
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Fight club
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Fight Club – a place where young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers can fight each other barehanded – is the invention of Tyler Durden, a dark, anarchic genius who plans...
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Light in August
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Joe Christmas, a man doomed, deracinated and alone, wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his god-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pu...
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Coming Up for Air
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By turns comic and melancholy, Orwell’s fourth novel – published in 1939 to critical and commercial acclaim by Victor Gollancz – is Wellsian in its exploration of the frustrations...
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Briefly, a delicious life
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When George Sand and FrÃ©dÃ©ric 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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The winners
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The breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, l...
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Stone blind
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Natalie Haynes, Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships, brings life to the infamous myth of Medusa with a heartbreaking, feminist retelling unlike any other.
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The it girl
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The compulsive new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware.Â
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Our wives under the sea
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A haunting and moving debut novel about love, loss and grief – about what life there is the deep ocean and what happens when we go looking for it.
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Careering
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Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, Imogen dreams of any job. Writing her blog around double shifts at the pub is neither fulfilling her creatively nor ...
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The Cossacks
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Olenin, a wealthy, orphaned, ‘superfluous man’ from Moscow joins the Russian army and travels to the Causasus – Russia’s equivalent of America’s Wild West. There, he d...
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The Blind Owl
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Sadegh Hedayat’s most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale in which the reader is drawn into his hallucinatory and pained world, with recurr...
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Mrs Dalloway
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‘The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames’In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute deta...
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The Enchanted April
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s much-loved novel about four women sharing a castle in the Italian Riviera.
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The Gardener
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Artist, Hassie Day, and her sister, Margot, buy a rambling, run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alon...
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How to Kill Your Family
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN

‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES
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The Lamplighters
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Inspired by true events, The Lamplighters is the story of three men who vanish from a remote lighthouse. Twenty years later, the mystery of their disappearance still haunts the heartbroken w...
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American Psycho
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An international bestseller and true modern classic, American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
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Blood Meridian
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A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
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Ariadne
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As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace....
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The Betrayals
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*PRE-ORDER BRIDGET COLLINS’ STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE SILENCE FACTORY, NOW*

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