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The Aviary Gate
Katie Hickman
The Aviary Gate is a tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets. Lush, magical and utterly absorbing, it is a masterful novel from one of our most acclaimed autho...
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The Declaration
Gemma Malley
Anna Covey is a ‘Surplus’. She should not have been born. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. ...
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A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
Isabel Losada
A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World is about the question ‘What can one person do to make a difference?’ Isabel Losada, acting as ‘Everywoman’ decides to take on the challenge regarding the destr...
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The Last Empress
Anchee Min
In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both ...
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Friday Nights
Joanna Trollope
The latest bestseller from Joanna Trollope
With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern friendship....
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Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband,...
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Miss Webster and Chérif
Patricia Duncker
A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britain's finest novelists
Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Force...
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So Many Ways to Begin
Jon McGregor
The searing and moving new novel by the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
So Many Ways To Begin is about mothers, childhood, secrets, memo...
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The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock's moving and compelling memoir of her marriage to John Thaw. Includes a new introduction by Maureen Lipman.
When John Thaw, the star of The Sweeney, Inspector Morse ...
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Restless
William Boyd
The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war...
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Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood
The classic story of torturous friendship. With an introduction by Ali Smith
Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood ...
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Sleep With Me
Joanna Briscoe
A story of compulsion, desire, darkness and ambivalence, Sleep With Me moves towards a breathtaking climax. It confirms Joanna Briscoe as a major literary talent.
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The Highest Tide
Jim Lynch
A Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice for 2006
A poignant coming-of-age story and a gripping novel of natural wonder.
"If you reach the last page without having laughed out loud ...
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Small Steps
Louis Sachar
The sequel to international bestseller Holes
Upon returning to Austin from Camp Green Lake, Armpit set five goals for himself. Five small steps to help him return to normal life. ...
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Second Honeymoon
Joanna Trollope
Her latest number one bestseller
'Utterly absorbing, constantly surprising, and often extremely funny' Independent...
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Empress Orchid
Anchee Min
A Richard and Judy Book Club Choice for 2006
To rescue her family from poverty, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor’s wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking con...
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Divided Kingdom
Rupert Thomson
The new novel from the author of The Book of Revelation
‘A hyper-real hallucination lit by sumptuous prose and fuelled by a prodigal gift for atmosphere and suspense’ Independen...
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Port Mungo
Patrick McGrath
The astonishing new novel from Patrick McGrath, author of Asylum
‘Gothic elements have been woven into a story of delicacy and not a little humour. The result is that literary rari...
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Aloft
Chang-rae Lee
From a master storyteller comes an unforgettable family drama and a stunning twenty-first century American novel
‘Chang-rae Lee’s third novel utterly fulfils his promise as a writer … the stor...
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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen
A BBC Page Turner
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the acci...
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The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
A BBC Page Turner
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. She is shy and introspective, the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, and can’t shake the feeling of being ...
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
'A devastating, masterful and painfully honest story ' Daily Telegraph
One chilly Afghan winter’s day in 1975 Amir witnesses a dreadful act that irrevocably changes both his life and the...
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The Promise of Happiness
Justin Cartwright
A Richard and Judy Book Club Choice for 2005
'Extraordinarily bold ... This is a funny, angry moving novel ... brilliant' Independent
The Judds are an ordinary f...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Longlisted for the Man/Booker Prize for Fiction 2004
Enter the dazzling world of nineteenth century magicians fighting Napoleon's advancing army — and fighting between themselves.
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Our Lady of the Forest
David Guterson
From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars
‘One of the most exciting and thoughtful novels I’ve read this year … wonderful’ Daily Mail
Ann Holmes seems an unli...
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