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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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All The Lovers In The Night
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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a deeply moving story about a woman searching for meaning in contemporary Tokyo.
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The it girl
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The ‘deliciously dark and utterly addictive’ (Lucy Foley) thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware.Â
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The change
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‘This was one of those books that just keeps giving ? I cannot explain how much I loved this book ? It’s a thriller, it’s about friendships, it’s about finding your path, i...
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Lessons in chemistry
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastin...
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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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Miss Aldridge regrets
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‘A brilliant murder mystery with shades of Agatha Christie and The Great Gatsby . . . a glamorous and fun read’ Reader review ?????
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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 Painted Veil
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‘She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference’Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsati...
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All Your Perfects
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Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. But the one th...
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
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In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in ...
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Blue Ticket
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Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticke...
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American Dirt
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‘American Dirt’ explores the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border, a journey which thousands of migrants make each year. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yes...
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The authenticity project
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Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project – a small green notebook containing the truth about his life. Leaving the notebook on a ta...
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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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1984
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The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and ...
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**CHRISTINA DALCHER’S GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FEMLANDIA IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!**

‘Terrifyingly plausible’ Louise Candlish
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Such a fun age
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a se...
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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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Death in the East
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1922, India. Leaving Calcutta, Captain Sam Wyndham heads for the hills of Assam, to the ashram of a sainted monk where he hopes to conquer his opium addiction. But when he arrives, he sees a ghost ...
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Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
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‘Girl, Woman, Other’ follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, ...
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Smoke and ashes
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Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned...
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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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Robots and Empire
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Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science f...
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Handmaids Tale
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sicknes...
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It Ends With Us
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A bold, heart-wrenching story of love comingÂ at the ultimate priceÂ from the beloved No. 1Â New York Times and Sunday TimesÂ bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Now a majo...
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Go Set a Watchman
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This novel is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ some twenty years before. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary
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‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’. This is a lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real ...
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of ...
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Year of wonders
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.

A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary ye...
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