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‘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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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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Rule Britannia
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Du Maurier brings us a tale of a future where England has entered into political, military and economic union with the United States, only to find it is beginning to look like a takeover bid by the...
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Atonement
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Atonement is the novel for which Ian McEwan will always be remembered. Enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, class and England, at its centre is a profound and profoundly moving ...
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Giovanni’s room
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Tackling the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love, this novel tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, ...
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PMC Wide Sargasso Sea & Notes
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This is Jean Rhys’ powerful and compassionate story of the first Mrs Rochester, haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother, she is trapped in a marriage with a man who...
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Trainspotting
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‘Trainspotting’ is hilarious, and profane, riddled with drugs, drunks and bad behaviour and rich with flawed characters. The interwoven stories of a group of friends and junkies, it is ...
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