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New and recommended adventure and western fiction
Updated February 9, 2024
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Northern spy
Berry, Flynn
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A delicate truth
Le Carré, John
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose- to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors- an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is...
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The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi : a novel
Chakraborty, S. A.
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Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's quest to seize a final chance at glory... A pirate of infamy and one of the...
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The boy from the woods
Coben, Harlan
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Sharpe's assassin : Richard Sharpe and the occupation of Paris, 1815
Cornwell, Bernard
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SHARPE IS BACK. The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter,...
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Lucky Red : a novel
Cravens, Claudia
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A feminist coming-of-age story from a debut author - playful, feminist historical fiction forreaders of Sarah Waters, Charles Portis and Anna North.
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Haven : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
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Winter work
Fesperman, Dan
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An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets being kept hidden just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. BERLIN, 1990. On a chilly early morning walk, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbour, fellow Stasi officer Lothar, lying dead with a bullet...
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Never
Follett, Ken
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Expertly researched, visionary in scale and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from international No. 1 bestseller Ken Follett, NEVER is more than a thriller. It imagines a scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you transfixed until the final page . . . A stolen US...
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Alias Emma : a novel
Glass, Ava
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Emma Makepeace is about to spend the longest night in her life. She's on her first operation with a shadowy organisation known only as 'The Agency', assigned to track down and save an innocent man wanted by the Russian government All Emma has to do is bring him in to...
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Sierra six
Greaney, Mark
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An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series. Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security...
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The Apollo murders : a novel
Hadfield, Chris
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hadfield 'An exciting...
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The great alone
Hannah, Kristin
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Set against the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, from the bestselling author of The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah. The New York Times number one bestseller.
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The lost man
Harper, Jane
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A shadow intelligence
Harris, Oliver
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'Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I'm loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel' Ian Rankin The intelligence service puts two years and over £100k into the training of new field officers. You're shown how to steal cars, strip...
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The Guide A novel
Heller, Peter.
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The secret hours
Herron, Mick
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The removed : a novel
Hobson, Brandon
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"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy Orange, author of There There ...
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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels Dangerous Damsels Series, Book 1
Holton, India.
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Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to the prestigious Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary society - as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells. These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing all before tea time. But when...
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A hero born
Jin, Yong
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THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD..ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has...
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The fervor : a novel
Katsu, Alma
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Sal
Kitson, Mick
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A rich, wild and heartwarming debut novel about the end of childhood, the strength of a sister's love and the power of nature to heal even the deepest wounds.
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Devoted
Koontz, Dean R.
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Whalefall : a novel
Kraus, Daniel
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The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.
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The mountain story
Lansens, Lori.
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Migrations A Novel
McConaghy, Charlotte.
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'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic...
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The North water : a novel
McGuire, Ian.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters,...
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Gods of jade and shadow
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
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'This is historical fantasy at its best' S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass Inspired by Mexican folklore, Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical, wildly imaginative coming-of-age tale for fans of Katherine...
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Drowning : the rescue of Flight 1421 : a novel
Newman, T. J.
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Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman - whose first book Falling was an instant international bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021 - returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into...
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Outlawed : a novel
North, Anna
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My father's house
O'Connor, Joseph
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The Glass Kingdom a novel
Osborne, Lawrence
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A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'a modern Graham Greene' (Sunday Times) 'Bangkok is the star of this accomplished novel. Its denizens are aliens to themselves, glittering on the...
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Maude Horton's glorious revenge
Pook, Lizzie
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Starter villain
Scalzi, John
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'Laugh-out-loud funny, intricately plotted and big-hearted' - SFX Warning: supervillain in training. Risk of world domination. Locus and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi brings us Starter Villain, a turbo-charged tale of a family...
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Great Circle A novel
Shipstead, Maggie.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR A Book of the Year for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, New...
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The cellist : a novel
Silva, Daniel
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Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of espionage and suspense featuring art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon. ...
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Legacy of war
Smith, Wilbur A.
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A brand-new Courtney Series adventure.
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Termination shock : a novel
Stephenson, Neal
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change 'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times 'His most visionary, and timely, book yet' Chicago Review of Books 'Absorbing speculative fiction'...
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The lamplighters
Stonex, Emma
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The Sunday Times Bestseller 'The Lamplighters is a whodunnit, horror novel, ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one.' - Guardian Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse,...
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The Lincoln highway
Towles, Amor
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THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER ...
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Winter Counts A Novel
Weiden, David Heska Wanbli.
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WINNER OF THE ANTHONY, BARRY, THRILLER, LEFTY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Harrowing and heartfelt, assured and highly accomplished. One of the standout thrillers of the year' CHRIS WHITAKER If you have a problem, if no one else can help, there...
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Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARRACK OBAMA READING PICK A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN
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All the white spaces : a novel
Wilkes, Ally
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A vivid ghost story exploring identity, gender and selfhood, set against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights and Michelle Paver's Thin Air. In the wake of the First...
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Our woman in Moscow : a novel
Williams, Beatriz
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Don't miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in Cold War espionage In 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a...
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