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'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.'Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him...
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Penguin
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2016-06-02
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A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE Soon to be a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston. It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on...
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Penguin
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2016-06-02
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FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORTrapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-26
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FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOROnce upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-26
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FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORAfter a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney. Hunted by the police, her face stares back at her on the unremitting 24/7...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-26
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FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORMathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-26
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEA dazzling literary debut about three lives colliding in 80s downtown New YorkOn the eve of 1980, downtown New York is the centre of the universe. Here are the artistes and the socialites, the dealers,...
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Penguin
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2016-05-26
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***THE NOVEL OF THE HIT INDIE FILM***'If, like me, you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman's Love & Friendship' The Times'Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect' New York Times'Lady Susan remains...
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John Murray
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2016-05-19
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'Oh, she'll turn up all right. Somewhere or other. Trouble is, we won't know where to look.'Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Anna Durrant's acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so reliable, so helpful, she has neglected what duties remain to her after...
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Penguin
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2016-05-19
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'Seated at a café table, in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice, he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.'George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam. When Putnam dies George...
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Penguin
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2016-05-19
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'I have reached the age when a woman begins to perceive that she is growing into the person whom she least plans to resemble: her mother.'Nadine has always wanted her daughter Maud to be married and off her hands. When the two women are staying at Nadine's sister's...
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Penguin
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2016-05-19
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'Fiction taught her all she knew of life, taught her to interpret the lives of others.'Dorothea May has had a reclusive life, particularly since the death of her husband Henry some fifteen years ago. Genteel, faint-hearted and solitary, her closest relatives are Henry's...
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Penguin
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2016-05-19
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Forty years old and suddenly motherless, Blanca is left shocked and rudderless by the death of the most important person in her life. To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, a change of scenery, and sex....
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-12
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1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is...
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Maclehose Press
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2016-05-05
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Read this funny, sharp, delicately woven story of two women’s complicated relationship set in post-apartheid South Africa.Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb....
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-05
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An unforgettable tale of slavery in the American SouthOnce I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them. Ginny lives on her husband’s pig farm ninety miles from nowhere. Far from the paradise she was promised, this is a bleak place and her husband, Linus,...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-05-05
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ALL IS VANITY is the second novel by Christina Schwarz, the acclaimed author of number-one bestseller DROWNING RUTH. 'A page-turner' New York Times Book ReviewAs they reach their mid-thirties, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood, begin to chafe at their...
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Review
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2016-04-07
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THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH 'Increasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years' Evening StandardNine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-04-07
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The setting is October 1879.The stage is New Georgetown, West Virginia.A mysterious figure by the name of 'The Maker' has entered this small community and, almost immediately upon doing so, started entering the minds of the townsfolk.Townsfolk who are as curious asThe...
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Riverrun
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2016-03-31
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The second volume in the acclaimedThe Wind from the Plain trilogy Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal was an unsurpassed storyteller who brought to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-03-24
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