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  • INTERMEZZO
    ROONEY, SALLY
    Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi...
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  • PLAYGROUND
    POWERS, RICHARD
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive' PERCIVAL EVERETT'An extraordi...
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  • BAUMGARTNER
    AUSTER, PAUL
    And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began. 'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan'A writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality.' Don DeLilloThe life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his d...
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  • ORBITAL
    HARVEY, SAMANTHA
    **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'GUARDIAN'Stunning... An uplifting book'SUNDAY TIMESLife on our planet as you've never seen it beforeA team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of ...
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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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  • SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
    KEEGAN, CLAIRE
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHYA SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'...
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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 PARIS LIBRARY
    SKESLIEN CHARLES, JANET
    HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZISTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and libraries to change people's lives' JILL MANSELL'Heart-breaking and heart-lifting and always enchanting' RUTH HOGAN'An irresistible and utterly compelling novel that will appeal to bibli...
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  • A PASSAGE TO INDIA
    FORSTER, E.M.
    'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity' ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age. It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its...
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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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  • MRS DALLOWAY
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 SOUND AND THE FURY
    FAULKNER, WILLIAM
    The Sound and the Fury explora les relacions intenses i passionals d’una família, on l’egocentrisme és més important que l’amor. Una novel·la que tracta el tema de la falta d’amor en la societat americana. És considerada una de les obres literàries més importants de la literatura americana contemporània. ...
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  • THE HATE U GIVE
    THOMAS, ANGIE
    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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  • 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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  • CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
    ACIMAN, ANDRE
    WINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARDNominated for Four OscarsA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club PickAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at ...
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  • HANDMAIDS TALE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The TestamentsNOW AN AWARD-WINNING TV SERIES STARRING ELISABETH MOSSOffred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Comm...
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  • THE OUTSIDERS
    HINTON, S.E
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murdero...
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