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Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Two years after earning a PhD from UCLA, the narrator of Liquid stand achingly far from the middle-class comfort promised by her education and the successes of her immigrant parents. Jokingly, her best...
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Algonquin Books
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2025-03-11
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'Anthony Quinn has found an ingenious way of shaping the story into a gripping work of fiction... a compelling mixture of crime story and character study' Sunday Times'A dark, unsettling, completely addictive mystery' Jonathan Coe'A beguiling real-life crime thriller'...
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Abacus
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2025-03-06
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets...
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Penguin
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2025-03-06
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE DARK ROOM AND A BOY IN WINTER'A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war . . . A brilliant piece of...
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Virago
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2025-03-06
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The darkly funny, moving debut novel from acclaimed Scottish author of Hings and HWFG, Chris McQueerSince dropping out of school three years ago with no qualifications, no pals, and no ambition, Jamie Skelton spends most of his days asleep and most of his nights...
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Wildfire
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2025-02-27
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A darkly funny, confronting debut novel about violence and vengeance - but also the story of a woman's journey to come back to herself after traumaSarah is a final year PhD student in southern California, caught in a landscape of extreme wealth and raging wildfires. She...
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Wildfire
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2025-02-25
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WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'So bracing, so strange and humane . . . I loved it.' SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTI‘Funny . . . All the people in this novel are alive.’ HIROMI KAWAKAMI, author of STRANGE WEATHER IN TOKYO‘Witty and sharp . . . I devoured it.’ NATALIE SUE,...
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Penguin
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2025-02-20
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In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second...
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Algonquin Books
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2025-02-18
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARLike a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from...
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Penguin
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2025-02-06
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A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogyButangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2025-02-04
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The Sister Bells Trilogy
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THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping, sinister folktale set in contemporary Cumbria for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Angela Carter, Daisy Johnson, Margaret Atwood and Julia Armfield 'A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose'GENEVIEVE...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-01-30
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'I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone—quite alone—in the world—the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy—joyous—'
The eponymous heroine of Mathilda narrates a tale of incestuous love from her...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-30
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'I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone—quite alone—in the world—the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy—joyous—'
The eponymous heroine of Mathilda narrates a tale of incestuous love from her...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-27
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"A modern classic" Observer"Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow KingEthiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of...
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Maclehose Press
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2025-01-16
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To the world, they were a scandal.To each other, an obsession. Lace up for a scorching summer read.‘Perfect if you’re a fan of Daisy Jones and the Six’ Cosmopolitan‘Brilliant… will keep you guessing until its very last page’ Jodi Picoult'A delight - I was completely...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-01-16
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‘A cult classic … A high and a comedown at once – a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour … wryly funny … it is also devastating’ The New YorkerAn unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own...
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Penguin
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2025-01-02
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'Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer' Ann PatchettThey were sisters and they would last past the end of time.Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-11-14
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'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice SzafranMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2024-10-24
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New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE'It is STUNNING and I simply sat and read it right through, and shall start again at once. I had no idea that she is such a...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2024-10-17
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