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SINAN
SINAN
JOHN FREELY / AUGUSTO ROMANO BURELLI
Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age - when the Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art and this volume is a magnificent testament to the achievement of a man who stamped his imprint on an entire culture Beginning as a military engineer and designer of fortifications, he was appointed Chief Imperial A...
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A SCATTER OF LIGHT
A SCATTER OF LIGHT
MALINDA LO
'Beautifully rendered and instantly captivating. Malinda Lo writes queer desire like no other.' DIVA MAGAZINE 'Lo writes tenderly about the first buds of teenage desire amid a downtown hipster at scene.' DAILY MAIL 'Poignant, vivid and so beautifully written. I adored it.' LAURA KAY A Scatter of Light is a companion novel to the National Book Awards winner and New York Times...
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A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch ... This event is decisive in Bellori's life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the...
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I BEFORE E (EXCEPT AFTER C)
I BEFORE E (EXCEPT AFTER C)
JUDY PARKINSON
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2007 and a bestseller ever since, I Before E (Except after C) has continued to inform and entertain its many readers. Now available in paperback, this delightful gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for new readers and fans of the series alike. Offering reminders of mnemonics from our youth and containing countless more to hel...
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TIME IS A MOTHER
TIME IS A MOTHER
OCEAN VUONG
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 'Tender and heartbreaking' TIME 'Powerful' DUA LIPA In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED
ADAM RUTHERFORD
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. Since scientist...
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MR. MESSY
MR. MESSY
ROGER HARGREAVES
The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Messy was the messiest person you'd ever met in your whole life. He looked messy because he was messy in everything he did... The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect stor...
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FIGHT LIKE A GIRL: AN EMPOWERING SELF-DEFENCE GUIDE FOR ALL WOMEN
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL: AN EMPOWERING SELF-DEFENCE GUIDE FOR ALL WOMEN
DELLA O'SULLIVAN
'Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too - it may not look the same as your power, but it's there and I can claim it.' It should never be a woman's job to have to protect herself - but choosing to learn about self-defence can be incredibly liberating. Fight Like a Girl is a practical beginner's guide, in which wome...
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DEATH BRINGER
DEATH BRINGER
DEREK LANDY
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer. There's just one catch. There's a reason the Necromancers don't need her any more, and that's because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. That's a very, very bad thing. ...
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BELLIES
BELLIES
NICOLA DINAN
Discover the beautiful coming-of-age story about falling in-and-out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak. 'Smart, hilarious and deeply moving' Elliot Page, author of Pageboy 'Thoughtful, seductive, and entirely engrossing - Bellies is already a classic' Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot 'Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as a genuine literary talent, a gimlet...
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WORDS OF RADIANCE - PART ONE
WORDS OF RADIANCE - PART ONE
BRANDON SANDERSON
The natural heir to Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series hit No.1 in the US and No.2 in the UK with the hardback release of the massive second volume, WORDS OF RADIANCE. Split into two volumes for paperback this is Part One of that second volume. WORDS OF RADIANCE takes the reader even deeper into the lives of its characters as they fight for power, free...
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UNRULY
UNRULY
DAVID MITCHELL
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell - a funny man and skilled historian - tells stories that are interesting and fun. Here is Horrible Histories for grownups' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES 'Just fanta...
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HIGH WINDOWS
HIGH WINDOWS
PHILIP LARKIN
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death ...
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TINTIN, V.11 - LE SECRET DE LA LICORNE
TINTIN, V.11 - LE SECRET DE LA LICORNE
HERGÉ
Herg?'s classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children's books. These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old and new. Perfect for lovers of graphic novels, mysteries and historical adventures. The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn. When Tintin stumbles acr...
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THE LIFE OF MONSIEUR DE MOLIERE
THE LIFE OF MONSIEUR DE MOLIERE
MIKHAIL AFANASEVICH BULGAKOV
Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author's death, The Life of Monsieur de Molière charts the life of the French playwright, from his humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Molière and Bulgakov, and...
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FAEBOUND
FAEBOUND
SAARA EL-ARIFI
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER âe~Exquisite fantasy, with a complex, mysterious, and sumptuous world of elves, fae, and gloriously compelling romance âe" so enthralling, it has wrapped its magic around my heart and set it alightâe(tm) HANNAH KANER, bestselling author of Godkiller âe~A romantic fantasy of epic proportions, crackling with magic and passionâe(tm) SAMANTHA...
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OUT OF THE WOODS
OUT OF THE WOODS
HANNAH BONAM-YOUNG
'Absolute, utter perfection.' -- Chloe Liese, USA Today bestselling author of Only and Forever A married couple joins a week-long wilderness expedition to help them reconnect in this heartfelt companion novel to the viral TikTok sensation Out on a Limb. 'Absolute, utter perfection' Chloe Liese, bestselling author of Only and Forever A married couple joins a week-long wilderne...
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ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
OCEAN VUONG
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, ...
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WHY I AM A STOIC
WHY I AM A STOIC
SENECA
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks to the reader today with lucidity and warmth. Whether advising on how to live a good life, spend time alone or free oneself from fears of death, Seneca is the wise and compassionate ...
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THE LADY BANDIT
THE LADY BANDIT
EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, be...
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A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
ALBERT CAMUS
Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous 'Nuptials at Tipasa', one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would info...
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TRISTESSA
TRISTESSA
JACK KEROUAC
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'. ...
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REVENGE
REVENGE
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here encha...
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FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The Starry Night, the letters in this selection paint an intense personal narrative of his artistic development and creative process across the years. They reveal a man of great spi...
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ECCE HOMO
ECCE HOMO
DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
I am not a man, I am dynamite Weeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life's work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including 'Why I Am So Wise' and 'Why I Write Such Good Books', it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, stran...
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THE BROKEN NEST
THE BROKEN NEST
RABINDRANATH. TAGORE
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is lost. ...
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A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons. Arthur Schnitzler'...
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A MOMENT OF WAR
A MOMENT OF WAR
LAURIE LEE
In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; 'that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that id...
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STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
HERMANN HESSE
Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit... A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain and a bird guides a boy to another planet in this selection of dream-like and visionary fairy tales from the great German-Swiss...
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THE NEW DRESS
THE NEW DRESS
VIRGINIA WOOLF
'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."' In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beaut...
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THE BLAZING WORLD
THE BLAZING WORLD
MARGARET CAVENDISH
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security' In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leading to a utopian parallel universe, where gender roles, scientific orthodoxy and political norms had been razed to the ground. ...
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THE RICH BOY
THE RICH BOY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, 'The Rich Boy', whose opulent, haunting world paints a vivid portrait of the American elite. 'Absolution' offers a poignant glimpse into the soul of a young boy grappling with sin, whilst 'May Day' captures the whir...
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HOP-FROG
HOP-FROG
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is s...
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DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
DYLAN. THOMAS
Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality, decay, human weakness, and beckoning readers to 'rage, rage against the dying of the...
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UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN
UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN
ITALO CALVINO
I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ... The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun ...
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THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART
THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART
MARK LAWRENCE
The final volume in the The Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN and THE BOOK THAT BROKE THE WORLD. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, an...
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Secret Kingdoms Book Club

MINA'S MATCHBOX
MINA'S MATCHBOX
YOKO OGAWA
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unf...
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FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE
FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE
ANGELA Y. DAVIS
In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of...
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A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL
A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL
REBECCA SOLNIT
A New York Times Notable BookChosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune“A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters” —The New York Times Book Review“Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a su...
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THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
MARJAN KAMALI
'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love - this novel has everything' Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes From the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, ...
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ENTER GHOST
ENTER GHOST
ISABELLA HAMMAD
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit he...
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PALESTINE +100
PALESTINE +100
BASMA GHALAYINI
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolati...
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THE SECRET HISTORY
THE SECRET HISTORY
DONNA TARTT
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction' The Times'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure' GuardianUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group...
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KAIROS
KAIROS
JENNY ERPENBECK
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 attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, pun...
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BORN ON A BLUE DAY
BORN ON A BLUE DAY
DANIEL TAMMET
'Born On A Blue Day' is a fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome. ...
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Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Shortlist

  • GOOD GIRL
    GOOD GIRL
    ARIA ABER
    A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery 'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A must-read ... Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh' Guardian 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berl...
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  • THE PERSIANS
    THE PERSIANS
    SANAM MAHLOUDJI
    'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Mesmerising' MONICA ALI 'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN 'Funny and profound' TASH AW 'Wonderful' MARIAN KEYES A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down Meet the women of the Valiat...
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  • TELL ME EVERYTHING
    TELL ME EVERYTHING
    ELIZABETH STROUT
    It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and re...
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  • THE SAFEKEEP
    THE SAFEKEEP
    YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN
    'A razor-sharp, perfectly plotted debut novel... This book is worth your time and your patience' Sunday Times 'Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy' Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'A house is a precious thing...' An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, ...
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  • ALL FOURS
    ALL FOURS
    MIRANDA JULY
    A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. ...
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  • FUNDAMENTALLY
    FUNDAMENTALLY
    NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
    'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues. Sara is a precocious a...
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Exploring Historical Fiction
26/04/2025 20:00

Exploring Historical Fiction

Panel discussion

From Madrid to Heaven with Leslie Croxford
10/05/2025 20:00

From Madrid to Heaven with Leslie Croxford

From Madrid to Heaven with Leslie Croxford

Live – A Thousand Lives - with Parisa Salahshourian
17/05/2025 20:00

Live – A Thousand Lives - with Parisa Salahshourian

Live – A Thousand Lives - with Parisa Salahshourian

Book signing with Elena Armas
25/05/2025 14:00

Book signing with Elena Armas

Renowned Romance Author Elena Armas will be here for an open Book-signing from 2.00pm