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Updated April 18, 2023
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Our missing hearts : a novel
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE PANDORA BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hottest book for THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, VOGUE, STYLIST, TIME MAGAZINE, EVENING STANDARD, THE I and THE IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY.
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Yong, Ed
Paper Book
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT, GUARDIAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction**...
The candy house : a novel
Egan, Jennifer
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no...
Either/or
Batuman, Elif
Paper Book
In 1996, Selin, the bookish, language-obsessed daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives at Harvard University for her second year. Having spent the summer teaching English in the Hungarian countryside while obsessing over her crush, Ivan, Selin is determined to untangle from her unrequited...
The rabbit hutch
Gunty, Tess
Paper Book
  DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT, THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINE Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022 ...
If I survive you
Escoffery, Jonathan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE 'Dazzling' GUARDIAN 'Blistering' THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS 'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT ...
Lessons
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron...
Lessons in chemistry
Garmus, Bonnie
Paper Book
Discover the must-read Sunday TimesandNew York Timesbestseller, the perfect uplifting summer read, now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. 'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times 'A page...
Young Mungo : a novel
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
Selected as one of The Oprah Daily's Best Books of 2022From Booker-prizewinner Douglas Stuart an extraordinary, page-turning second novel, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.Born under different stars,...
Free : a child and a country at the end of history
Ypi, Lea
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD* Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in...
How to read now : essays
Castillo, Elaine
Paper Book
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.
In the shadow of the mountain : a memoir of courage
Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia
Paper Book
Last call at the Hotel Imperial : the reporters who took on a world at war
Cohen, Deborah
Paper Book
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators...
Book lovers
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date beforethey find...
Honey and spice : a novel
Babalola, Bolu
Paper Book
⭐ A REESE'S BOOK CLUB AND TIKTOK BOOK CLUB PICK ⭐ The fresh, utterly addictive rom-com you've been waiting for - from Sunday Times bestselling author Bolu Babalola. 'A triumph' BETH O'LEARY 'Hilarious, hot and heartfelt'...
Part of your world
Jimenez, Abby
Paper Book
'Jimenez is a true talent' Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry....
Trust
Díaz, Hernán
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 - Vulture, AV Club, Lithub, Oprah Daily, Goodreads A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, TRUST is a novel that challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s,...
All the seas of the world
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
'Kay is a genius' Brandon Sanderson/font> Returning to the near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature 'quarter turn...
The maker of swans : a novel
O'Donnell, Paraic
Paper Book
Amid the fading grandeur of a country estate, Clara lives in the care of Mr Crowe, a man of many mysterious gifts, and his faithful manservant, Eustace. Free from rules and lessons, she inhabits a silent world of her own. She has her books, and her secret places. Mr Crowe was once the...
Nettle & Bone
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
**Winner, Hugo Awards 2023, Best Novel** **Shortlisted, SFWA Nebula Awards 2022, Best Novel** A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award...
A restless truth
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, romance and adventure. A Restless Truth by Freya Marske is the thrilling follow-up to A Marvellous Light. Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She'd hoped for plenty of it...
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Zevin, Gabrielle
Paper Book
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'Exhilarating, timely and emotive' GUARDIAN 'I devoured it. So enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH 'Love, friendship and betrayal...gorgeous' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ------------------------------------ ...
Little sister : a novel
Lodge, Gytha
Paper Book
Detective Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace and quiet, when a teenage girl wanders out of the wood. She's striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She's also covered in blood. Jonah quickly discovers that Keely and her sister, Nina, disappeared from a children...
You made a fool of death with your beauty : a novel
Emezi, Akwaeke
Paper Book
An unforgettable romance that will set Summer 2022 ablaze
Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD

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