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Trust in Public Life
In her essay ‘The Roots of Trust’, Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not an invention of the last 50 years, but a fea…
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An Astronomer in Love
Antoine Laurain
A story of two men, 250 years apart, who find themselves on separate quests to see the transit of Venus across the Sun
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
In 1838 Frederic Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live…
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The Wide World of Graffiti
A guide to the art, artists, and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves. This major co-publication w…
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Fresh Dirt from the Grave
Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science – this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet. In Fresh Dirt from the Grave ,…
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The Power of One
Blowing the Whistle on Facebook In the spring of 2021, when news outlets feasted on “the Facebook Files,” Frances Haugen went public as the…
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Suddenly at His Residence
A Kent Mystery Under the shadow of the ongoing blitz in London, the willful grandchildren of Sir Richard Marsh have descended upon Swanswate…
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Orpheus Builds A Girl
Heather Parry
A truly chilling modern Gothic, based on a true story of sexual obsession and evil masquerading as love.
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The Greatest Invention
A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because w…
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Constance
In the summer of 2006, a chance encounter on the London Underground finds eighteen-year-old Ali tagging along with a school friend and a mys…
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Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants
The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works. It was the usual set-up: way out of town, secretive directions to get there,…
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The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delic…
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Even If Everything Ends
Life goes on in the face of a climate crisis in this astonishing and unforgettable debut novel that follows four characters as they struggle…
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The Three Graces
When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom one night, it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, na…
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Milk Teeth
A girl grows up in the north-east of England, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented ro…
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This Beating Heart
At forty-three, Christina Lennox thought her future was settled: marriage to Ed, children, a house of their own. But this is not that future…
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Y/N
A novel Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant – a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol…
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Nonfiction
A novel Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile the mother – a novelist – attempt…
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The Royal Wardrobe
Why did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the Elizabethan era? What the hell happened to Charles II’s pubic hair wig? How di…
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The People Immortal
One of Grossman’s three great war novels – alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad. Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war’s first mo…
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Lenin Walked on the Moon
How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality. Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising s…
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Hungry Heart
A Story of Food and Love Award-winning food writer Clare Finney presents a moving, heartfelt exploration of the intertwining influences of f…
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The Draw of the Sea
Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the sea and the people whose livelihoods revolve ar…
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Undoctored
THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century – a frank, funny and furious look at the brutal realities of life…
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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
The diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. ‘Romano, I’d like to open a bookshop…
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Winter’s Gifts
The brand new novella in the Sunday Times #1 bestselling Rivers of London series. THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY ACROSS THE POND… When retired…
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Piccadilly
The Circus at the Heart of London There’s nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground s…
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of…
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A Chateau Under Siege
France’s favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the people he protects. The event of the Perigord…
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The Enigma of Room 622
It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. This anomaly piq…
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Ibiza Surprise
When Sarah Cassells, a British girl who has just completed her training as a chef, hears of her father’s violent death on Ibiza, she refuses…
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Hokey Pokey
February, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its six-storeyed facade, guests sip absinthe cock…
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The Russian Revolution
An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history – the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twent…
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Observations by Gaslight
Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes Discover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through the eyes of those who knew them best. From familiar…
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The Book About Everything
Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce’s Ulysses To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important…
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Nonviolence
An Idea Whose Time Has Come The history of humanity is dominated by violence – it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries. Drawing on th…
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The Plague
What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your co…
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
The Full Story The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. Boris Johnson was t…
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. But mamma…
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DOES WHAT YOU SEE CHANGE WHO YOU ARE? Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate…
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Ancestry
Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea … Naomi, a sev…
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Sojourn
An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves alo…
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Fight Night
You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she’s suspended from school, in the care o…
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Watch Us Dance
Morocco, 1968. As she stands at the window, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her, and all she has achieved. Looking out at her…
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Just By Looking at Him
Eliott is a TV writer with a perfect-penised boyfriend. He’s living the dream. But behind the glossy veneer he’s been papering over cracks,…
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Limelight
Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is ashamed of that craving. And after a life…
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The Choice
A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century. As a woman in th…
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Kairos
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attract…
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There’s Been a Little Incident
Molly Black has disappeared. She’s been running away since her parents died. But this time, or so says her note, she’s gone for good. There’…
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Bored Gay Werewolf
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He’s bee…
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A Bad Decade for Good People
A fiercely hopeful novel about family, sexuality, grief and how we as individuals can rediscover our political agency in the face of continu…
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The Cherry Robbers
The reclusive Sylvia Wren, one of the most important American artists of the past century, has been running from her past for sixty years. B…
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The Sick Bag Song
The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave’s 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out…
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Beyond Measure
The Hidden History of Measurement A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We me…
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Elsewhere
‘How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven’t already died in the earthquake and are just living in the a…
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The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Rare book dealer Lily Albrecht has been given a tip-off about The Book of the Most Precious Substance, rumoured to be the most powerful occu…
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Wading in Waist-High Water SIGNED COPY
The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes Since the release of their breakout debut in 2008, Fleet Foxes and their frontman, singer-songwriter Robin Pecknol…
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Bi
The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know…
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The Invention of Essex
The Making of an English County Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, consumer cu…
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Is Maths Real?
How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What’s the point of alg…
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Love in a Time of Hate
Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 1930s Europe – as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great…
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More Fiya
A New Collection of Black British Poetry In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exc…
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The Fire People
A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of who…
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O’Hagan, i…
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullsh*t
What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon offsets when…
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How to Read Now
How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importanc…
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Bismarck’s War
The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had…
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On Women
A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag On Women brings together Susan Sontag’s m…
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The Football Book
This is the ultimate guide for any football fan who wants to know everything about the “beautiful game” – from World Cup winners to football…
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A Private Spy
The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020 John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters – written to rea…
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Radical Love
Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions. B…
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The Sanctuary
Sanctuary Rock is a perfect place. A remote island, owned by a wealthy philanthropist who is building a brand-new world on the ruins of the…
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Blue Machine
How the Ocean Shapes Our World All of the Earth’s ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight – a blue mach…
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Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep But We Don’t Mind
A Jewish woman has been having unnatural thoughts about the softness of another woman’s skin. A feminist arranges to meet her online troll….
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Sister Of Mine
The Grayson sisters are trouble. Everyone in their small town knows it. But no-one can know of the secret that binds them together. Hattie i…
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The Awakening
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret #31)
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Summer
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Chess
A Novel Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest…
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Babylon Revisited
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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The Imitation of the Rose
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Calypso in London
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Nabokov’s Dozen
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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The Fall
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Falling Animals
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong’s deb…
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Because I don’t know what you mean and what you don’t – SIGNED COPY
From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billbo…
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Devil Dogs
First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic t…
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Regenesis
Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our foo…
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Serious Money
Walking Plutocratic London London is a plutocrat’s paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from tr…
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Why Empires Fall
Rome, America and the Future of the West Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the tur…
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A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3
From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world’s first kno…
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This Book Will Make You Feel Better
100 Pages to Boost Your Mood A pocketful of sunshine for those moments when life just feels like too much, this book is bursting with happin…
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Letters for the Ages
The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and inti…
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Monsters
A Fan’s Dilemma A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we…
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Comfort and Joy
Irresistible Pleasures from a Vegetarian Kitchen Vegetables are the soul of the kitchen. Comfort and Joy is a fresh take on vegetarian and v…
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The Great Defiance
How the world took on the British Empire ‘The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a g…
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Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the Fren…
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Murder By Natural Causes
This is an intelligent thriller introducing a brilliant anti-heroine whose actions grip the reader right from the first page. Cilla is a 22-…
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Praying Mantis
ISOLATION Harith Athreya is taking a well-earned break at a boutique hotel in the Himalayan foothills. But his holiday is swiftly cut short…
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Good Pop, Bad Pop – SIGNED COPY
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us…
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Wish I Was Here
‘Late style is when the people who have all your life jumped in front of you waving their arms – No! Careful! – jump out one more time to en…
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Dance of the Photons
Einstein, Entanglement and Quantum Teleportation A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong…
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City of Lions
Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during…
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Here Comes the Fun
A Year of Making Merry ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH? Ben Aitken wasn’t. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to chan…
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Is This OK?
One Woman’s Search For Connection Online Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a…
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Pride and Prejudice
A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. F…
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Sense and Sensibility
A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. F…
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Greek Myths
Gods and Goddesses The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives inte…
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Greek Myths
Heroes and Heroines Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the advent…
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Good Husbands
Jess, Priyanka and Stephanie are all happily married to men they think they know inside out. Then each woman receives a letter accusing her…
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Salvage This World
There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the hurricane-ravaged bot…
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Perilous Times
IN PERILOUS TIMES LIKE THESE, THE REALM DOESN’T JUST NEED A HERO. IT NEEDS A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR. Sir Kay and his fellow knights awake…
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Psyche and Eros
A stunning, exciting and hotly-anticipated feminist retelling of one of the greatest love stories in Greek mythology! The greatest love stor…
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Orwell
The New Life Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western…
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Mister, Mister
Idiot, poet, jihadist, son. Who is Yahya Bas? An exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and unbelonging from the prizewinning author o…
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Command
How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War Al Murray’s passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has alway…
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Psalms For The End Of The World
It’s 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie…
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1923
The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one…
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X Marks the Spot
The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries Uncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the…
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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome
Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine) When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Ty…
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Windmill Hill
One night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director causes an international scandal that wrecks Astrid’s glittering stage career,…
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The Ruins
COME FOR THE DECADENCE. LIVE THE NIGHTMARE. STAY FOR THE REVENGE. . . Summer, 1985: Ruby has stayed at the chateau with her family every sum…
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Bonjour Tristesse
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a s…
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Death in Midsummer
Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan’s greatest writers show the pull be…
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The Library of Babel
Staff Pick Borges’s influence on magic-realism is well documented but the way in which the Argentinian master’s stories combine fantasy and…
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The Bushido Code
Words of Wisdom from Japan’s Greatest Samurai A collection of inspiring essays and aphorisms from Japan’s leading warriors Samurai warrior l…
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Botaniphoria
A Cabinet of Botanical Curiosities Take a fresh look at the world through the lens of a self-confessed nature-obsessed artist. Asuka Hishiki…
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Queer Footprints
A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hi…
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The Swimmers
Chloe Lane
Erin’s mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old s…
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Holy Ghosts
Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny A couple witnesses a ghostly procession from centuries past; a tourist confesses her sins to a p…
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Goodbye Eastern Europe
An Intimate History of a Divided Land Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to mind a ju…
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Hard Lying
Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919 Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, h…
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Brazilian Adventure
It began with an advertisement in the agony column of The Times: Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascerta…
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The Perfect Golden Circle
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic…
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The Covenant of Water
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener…
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The Great Crashes
Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial histo…
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Remembrance Sunday
Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon – an Irish architect – experiences a seizure, his first in al…
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Quietly Hostile
This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn’t know anything. After fleeing Chicago to quarantine at home in Michigan, Irby finds herself…
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Sleeping on Islands
A Life in Poetry Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighte…
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Spies in Canaan
Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one d…
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Are You Really OK?
Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency We are not OK… I’ve been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last dec…
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Ways of Life
Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists In this first biography of the Kettle’s Yard artists, Laura Freeman reveals the life of a visionary wh…
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Fyneshade
Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade’s dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and silent servants. But not I. For they have fa…
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The House of Doors
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a so…
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The Rooster House
A Ukrainian Family Memoir A riveting and deeply moving memoir about four generations of a Ukrainian family. In the Ukrainian city of Poltava…
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Ghost Girl, Banana
A stunning, powerful debut novel about the choices we make and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers. 1966: S…
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Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity A bold new interpretation of why technology has all too often benefited elites – a…
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Hurricane Season
The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is…
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who we…
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Chimera
Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her shi…
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Seahurst
Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father’s summer h…
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River Thames Dockland Heritage
Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend London’s docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the n…
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Whispering Walls
First World War Graffiti The soldiers of the First World War left a little-known legacy in forgotten caves along the Western Front: thousand…
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England in the Age of Dickens
1812-70 Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the…
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Fatherland
A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly…
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The Village Hall Vendetta
There’s a fine art to murder… The Lake District: stunning scenery, charming towns and … murder most wicked? The people of Penrith are de…
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There Is Nothing for You Here
Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportu…
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Lapvona
Welcome to Lapvona. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself at the centre…
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The Cassandra Complex
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes…
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Liminal
A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin’s legendary club scene – a skillfully told novel about the fragility of life. Berlin, Goerlitzer P…
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The Three of Us
Wife. Husband. Best friend. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion? A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husba…
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Verge
The day Rowena Murray was born, 250 starlings fell like stones from the sky. Ever since, she has been marked by Death. First the visions; th…
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The Age of Cats
From the Savannah to Your Sofa The past, present and future of the world’s most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologi…
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The Universe
The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Dia…
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Will You Read This, Please?
How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful collection of twelve storie…
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I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was
Dear Reader, Checking into a mental clinic wasn’t exactly on my radar in 2022. Writing about it wasn’t either. But here we are. I spent a li…
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Illegitimate Authority
Facing the Challenges of Our Time In these incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to…
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Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the…
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God Is An Octopus
Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature…
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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is…
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Come to This Court and Cry
Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials To probe the past is to submit the memory of one’s ancestors to a certain kind of trial. In thi…
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A Visible Man
Why look back when you can look forward? Why look in when you can look out? Where’s the next evolution? I throw everything into my work, but…
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The Ghost Theatre
TO LOVE IS TO FALL . . . On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the f…
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But What Can I Do?
Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It ‘Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.’ Our politics i…
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1945
Victory in the West March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp…
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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing… Leadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the co…
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The Bleeding Tree
A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. I…
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Rum Affair
Tina Rossi, the world’s leading coloratura soprano, has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival, but in reality to meet h…
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The Known Unknowns
The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling popular science writer Lawrence Krauss expl…
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The Unbreakables
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself bac…
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Tutankhamun’s Trumpet
The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian b…
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Western Lane
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been…
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Pearl
Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the…
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The Sweet Remnants of Summer
Our favourite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged i…
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Henry VIII
The Heart and the Crown Six wives. One King. You know their stories. Now it’s time to hear his. The magnificent new Tudor novel from the aut…
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The Bewitching
A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys. Alice Samuel might be old a…
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Take My Hand
Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to hel…
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Foodology
A food-lover’s guide to digestive health and happiness Written by a gastroenterologist and award-winning food writer, Foodology offers a uni…
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Privilege
‘I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the book would…
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Music in the Dark
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn’t recog…
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Nailing It
A collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedian’s life that defined him – more in a for worse than for bette…
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Sherpa
Stories of Life and Death from the Guardians of Everest Changing the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who liv…
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Honey
Recipes From a Beekeeper’s Kitchen A sticky celebration of honey from bloom to plate, with 80 inspiring recipes straight from a beekeeper’s…
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A Spectre, Haunting
On the Communist Manifesto China Mieville’s brilliant reading of the modern world’s most controversial and enduring political document: The…
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This is Not Miami
Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories – spiralling from real events -…
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Tiny Pieces of Enid
Enid isn’t clear about much these days. But she does feel a strong affinity with Olivia, a regular visitor to her dementia home in a small c…
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Pomegranates & Artichokes
Recipes and memories of a journey from Iran to Italy When Iranian writer and food photographer Saghar Setareh moved to Italy at the age of 2…
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Venom
The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad, the self-proclaimed medium of The Sacred M…
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he wi…
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Uncle Dynamite
Poor Pongo Twistleton must endure his sixty-year-old Uncle Fred once a year. But this year, mischievous Uncle Fred has gone too far. While P…
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August Blue
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. ‘If she was my double and I was hers, was…
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Darling
A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Lind…
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Ruth & Pen
Dublin, 7 October 2019: One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to…
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Soldier Sailor
A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire. Well, Sailor. Here we ar…
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder
Welcome to a magical world of music, friendship and rivalry … In a small coastal town just a stone’s throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano…
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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
It’s hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won’t leave you alone… Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sa…
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Thirst for Salt
Adrift during the summer after she finishes college, a young woman takes a holiday with her mother in the rugged Australian coastal town of…
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Queer Life, Queer Love
The Second Anthology The anthology will be published in May 2023, just ahead of Pride. Containing 30 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fict…
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The Night Interns
Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the night shift must care for – and keep aliv…
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Chrysalis
An unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman’s metamorphosis into an online phenomenon. She is watched by E…
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Weather
An obligatory note of hope, in a world going to hell Lizzie Benson, a part-time librarian, is already overwhelmed with the crises of daily l…
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A History of Burning
One family’s search for a better life: an immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko. India, 18…
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A Vision of the World
Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes. The first fully-authorised selected short stories from ‘one of the great write…
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First Blood
The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his childhood…
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Acts of Service
If sex is a truth-teller, Eve-a young, queer woman in Brooklyn-is looking for answers. On an evening when she is feeling particularly impuls…
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Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Flatmates? Friends? Or something else entirely? Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They’ve also just slept together,…
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The Funeral Cryer
An Yu’s Braised Pork meets Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman’s mid-life re-awakening in contempo…
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Service
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth? When Hannah learns that famed chef Danie…
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George V
Never a Dull Moment The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen’s grandparents and creators of…
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Small Island
12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain Can the questions over Britain’s future be answered by maps of our past? What is Britain? How di…
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The Middle Kingdoms
A New History of Central Europe Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience – of mutual borrowings, i…
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Size
How It Explains the World The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. E…
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Money Men
A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth This is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech da…
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Renee has made it: she’s in the final four. But is she dying to win? Renee should be thrilled to have been chosen as one of the final four c…
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Termush
Staff Pick A sparse, disquieting dystopia, precisely layered with mundanity, paranoia and indolence. The day we came up from the shelters fo…
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Just Sayin’
My Life In Words The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world’s greatest children’s writers, and an empowering and inspiring account o…
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Bonny & Read
Rebels. Pirates. Women. Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run – from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of…
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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming facades….
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Mountains Of The Mind
A History Of A Fascination Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we w…
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The Seaside
England’s Love Affair A vivid journey around England’s great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they re…
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Putin
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western…
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The Paper Man
A sweeping and unforgettable interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences. 1980s Cork. Jac…
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Transformer
The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death For decades, biology has been dominated by information – the power of genes. Yet there is no difference…
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The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each ce…
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7 Rules of Power
Surprising – But True – Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career If you want to ‘change lives, change organizations, change…
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Murder in a Heatwave
Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nig…
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The North African Cookbook
A collection of 445 exciting and accessible recipes that celebrate North Africa’s vibrant and diverse food culture. Life in North Africa hea…
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Coward
Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himsel…
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The Medici Murders
Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains s…
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The Cameraman
Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister’s wedding in Rome. But this will be an unus…
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The Slow Road to Tehran
A Revelatory Bike Ride Through Europe and the Middle East by Rebecca Lowe One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-alteri…
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365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year)
Discover LGBTQ+ history one day at a time A fun and fascinating compendium of LGBTQ+ icons, one for every day of the year, and a celebration…
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The Dominican Kitchen
Homestyle Recipes That Celebrate the Flavors, Traditions, and Culture of the Dominican Republic In The Dominican Kitchen, Vanessa Mota, crea…
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The Windmill Murders
Hettie and Tilly are summoned to a mysterious tea party hosted by Tillys long-lost great-aunts. The ancient windmill they live in is not wha…
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Confidence in 40 Images
The Art of Self-belief An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confide…
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Devotion
From the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Devotion is a stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a…
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Haven
In seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him – young Trian and o…
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Grimmish
Pain was Joe Grim’s self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. He rarely won a fight, but in the early decades of the twentieth c…
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Recipes to Reconnect
Food and conversations to re-establish the relationship between nature, food and self We have lost touch with the planet that feeds us and i…
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The Schoolhouse
Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and…
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Adventures in Philosophy with Kids A funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and why the smallest people have the answers to the biggest q…
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Politics: A Survivor’s Guide
How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: f…
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