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Tayari Jones
Paper Book
THE SPELLBINDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE * 'This is Tayari Jones's very best work.' ANN PATCHETT, author of Tom Lake ...
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Vigil: A Novel
George Saunders
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'The first must-read book of the year' Vogue 'Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age' Independent 'One of America's most distinguished and original writers'...
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Paper Book
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an...
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A Far-Flung Life
M. L. Stedman
THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER By the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans The 'Australian Gone with the Wind' - a breathtaking epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia - about resilience, family...
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The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Paper Book
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight...
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Brawler
Lauren Groff
Paper Book
THE LATEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX 'Brawler captures a towering talent.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Groff conjures a whole world in each brilliant story.' CLAIRE FULLER 'You'll walk...
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Departure(s)
Julian Barnes
Paper Book
Departure(s) is a work of fiction - but that doesn't mean it's not true. 'An elegant, thoughtful final book' THE TIMES 'His "last book" ... proves one of his best' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Metafictional, moving, unmistakably Barnes'...
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The News from Dublin
Colm TóibÃn
Paper Book
In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves....
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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Paper Book
Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature 'Set to be a standout novel of 2026 ... Brutal, funny and brilliantly told' Patrick Gale, Guardian 'All the makings of a classic'<...
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Good People
Patmeena Sabit
Paper Book
CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN 'SHARP,...
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A Better Life: A Novel
Lionel Shriver
'A superb satirical novelist' WASHINGTON POST In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant - who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. 'An incendiary provocateur'...
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Flashlight
Susan Choi
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime... 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises...
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What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Paper Book
'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times 2014- A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119- The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who...
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Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel
Ann Packer
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'One of those rare books that once you've finished, comes with you for life' RACHEL JOYCE 'A moving book ... I was enraptured by it' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book' ANDREW SEAN GREER ...
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Helm
Sarah Hall
Paper Book
The wondrous, elemental new novel from a 'writer of show-stopping genius' - about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.
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Pick a Color
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2025 A TLS AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class. 'I live in a world of...
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Seven
Joanna Kavenna
Paper Book
As heard on BBC R4s Start the Week, 'hilarious, insightful and supremely intelligent writing' 'What a writer.' ALI SMITH 'Endlessly inventive' THE TIMES 'Thoroughly pleasurable' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'One of the most brilliant British writers...
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John of John
Douglas Stuart
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From Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John. Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love...
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Queen Esther
John Irving
Paper Book
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti...
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Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
Paper Book
'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'I LOVED IT . . . Masterfully and totally realised' PANDORA SYKES 'The most wildly original book of the year' ...
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The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
Paper Book
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, STYLIST, NEW STATESMAN, BUSTLE, LITHUB, W MAGAZINE AND OUR CULTUREDAKOTA JOHNSON BOOK CLUB PICKTHE SHIFT BY SAM BAKER BOOK CLUB PICKTwo parents. Happily married. Just not to each other.When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small...
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