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  • BAUMGARTNER
    AUSTER, PAUL
    A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers. The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence.But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in...
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  • GOOD MATERIAL
    ALDERTON, DOLLY
    'Made me laugh while punching me in the gut. Loved this book' AISLING BEA'This is the greatest. You'll cry and laugh.I read it though the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'I award it 13/10 on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn't write it)' MARIAN KEYES---Every relationship has one beginning.This one has two endings.Andy loves Jen. Je...
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  • LUCY BY THE SEA
    STROUT, ELIZABETH
    'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us'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, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a ...
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  • THE RABBIT HUTCH
    GUNTY, TESS
    Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover PrizeAn Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022 'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' ObserverVacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's ...
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  • HELLO BEAUTIFUL
    NAPOLITANO, ANN
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decadesMeet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the "rocket" of the family - she always has a destination in mind ...
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  • ASSEMBLY
    BROWN, NATASHA
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021'Subtle, elegant, scorching' Vogue'Virtuosic, exquisite, achingly unique' Guardian'I'm full of the hope, on reading it, that this is the kind of book that doesn't just mark the moment ...
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  • ELIZABETH FINCH
    BARNES, JULIAN
    We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.She will change the way you see the world.'The task of the present is to correct our understanding of the past. And that task becomes the more urgent when the past cannot be corrected.'Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration - always rigorous, always thoug...
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  • THE MAGICIAN
    TOIBIN, COLM
    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the...
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  • FREE LOVE
    HADLEY, TESSA
    'Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer. She just 'gets' people, their flaws, their ignoble impulses, the transcendent moments... she is wonderful.' Marian KeyesDiscover the compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London from the bestselling author of Late in the Day.1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, t...
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  • A LITTLE LIFE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
    CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards 2016 Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015 The million-copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the lim...
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  • THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS
    WILLIAMS, PIP
    'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself... Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day, she sees a slip of paper co...
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  • THE POWER OF THE DOG
    THOMAS SAVAGE
    **NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS**Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century America. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder.Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess...
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  • FROM BLOOD AND ASH
    JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
    Captivating and action-packed, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laura Thalassa.A Maiden...Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting ...
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  • AMERICANAH
    CIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    Lagos, mitjans dels anys 90. En el marc de la dictadura militar i en una Nigèria que ofereix poc o cap futur, Ifemelu i Obinze, dos adolescents atípics, s’enamoren apassionadament. Com gran part de la seva generació saben que abans o després hauran d’abandonar el país. Obinze ha somiat sempre de viure als Estats Units, però és Ifemeli qui aconsegueix el visat per viure a Brookl...
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  • THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
    HADDON,MARK
    Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more h...
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  • CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
    ROONEY, SALLY
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi...
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  • NORMAL PEOPLE
    ROONEY, SALLY
    Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first ...
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  • THINGS FALL APART
    ACHEBE, CHINUA
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he ...
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  • THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
    CISNEROS, SANDRA
    The bestselling coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world from the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventi...
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  • ATONEMENT
    MCEWAN, IAN
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE 2017 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARHOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Eli...
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  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5
    VONNEGUT, KURT
    'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.' George SaundersPrisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse Five...
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  • OUR SOULS AT NIGHT
    HARUF, KENT
    “Our Souls at Night”, l’última novel·la de Kent Haruf, que va escriure just abans de morir, és plena de lluminositat. Addie i Louis han sigut veïns durant molts anys, però ara estan sols: les seves cases estan gairebé buides i els seus fills han marxat lluny. Quan Addie visita a Louis una nit, li fa una proposta moltpeculiar: dormir una nit junts, només per compartir converses ...
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  • THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    STEINBECK, JOHN
    Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted...
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  • ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
    KESEY, KEN
    Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen.Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon Sta...
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  • BROOKLYN
    TOIBIN, COLM
    Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom.It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first t...
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  • THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
    LESSING, DORIS
    The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for...
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  • THE HATE U GIVE
    ANGIE THOMAS
    Starr és una noia negra de 16 anys de classe mitjana, amb amics i parella blanca. La seva plàcida i poc conflictiva vida s’acaba quan presencia l’assassinat d’un amic seu, Khalil, un noi negre de la mateixa edat, que anava desarmat, a mans d’un policia blanc. Starr vol que es faci justícia, però els seus dos mons entren en col·lisió i comença a rebre amenaces i pressions des de...
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  • THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
    WILDE, OSCAR
    “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “El retrat de Dorian Gray”, és la novel·la més famosa del autor irlandès Oscar Wilde. És la història del jove Dorian que, influït pel cinisme del seu amic Lord Henry, qui l’aparta del sensat pintor que els presenta, arriba a desitjar el fet de conservar l’aspecte de joventut més que cap altra cosa, fins al punt que la seva ànima pacta amb el diable...
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  • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: PART 1 DREAMS AND DUST DREAMS AND DUST: BOOK 5 OF A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
    MARTIN, GEORGE R R
    HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series.'Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing' Sunday TimesIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging f...
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  • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: PART 2 AFTER THE FEAST AFTER THE FEAST: BOOK 5 OF A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
    MARTIN, GEORGE R R
    HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series.'Vivid, rich, multi-layered and utterly addictive' Daily Express.The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance....
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