Contemporary lifestyle fiction
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Queen of Clubs
Book SynopsisThe Queen of Thieves is back! Queen of Clubs is the second in Beezy Marsh?s thrilling UK historical series about a ring of all-female gangsters in 1950s London.London, 1957:After rising up against gangland?s queen, Alice Diamond, formerly downtrodden Nell is living the perfect life of crime. Far from the East End slums where she was raised, she?s now an accomplished professional thief by day?lifting luxury goods from high-end department stores?and a glamorous nightclub owner after dark. Dressed in stolen silks and furs, Nell cuts a dazzling figure in the dimly lit clubs where she calls the shots. But a betrayal and botched robbery suddenly reverse Nell?s fortunes...and her old rival Alice is hell-bent on taking her down.Nightclub dancer Zoe is finally earning a living after escaping a poverty-stricken childhood. She?d rather work for Nell than set scores for Alice. But the life of luxury Zoe craves comes at a terrible price. When a vicious gang tightens its grip on Soho, all three women realize it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Where They Lie
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Legend of Meneka
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£14.07
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lucy Foley Boxed Set
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£41.25
HarperCollins The Fall of Gondolin
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£18.04
Penguin Putnam Inc American Indian Trickster Tales
Book SynopsisOf all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends.American Indian Trickster Tales includes more than one hundred stories from sixty tribes--many recorded from living storytellers—which are illustrated with lively and evocative drawings. These entertaining tales can be read aloud and enjoyed by readers of any age, and will entrance folklorists, anthropologists, lovers of Native American literature, and fans of both Joseph Campbell and the Brothers G
£13.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm A New English
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£18.00
Penguin Putnam Inc The Expatriates
Book SynopsisTHE INSPIRATION FOR EXPATS—AN ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN—NOW STREAMING ON PRIME VIDEO “Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you’ll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down.”—Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians From the New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a searing novel of marriage, motherhood, and the search for connection far from home. In the glittering city of Hong Kong, expats arrive daily for myriad reasons—to find or lose themselves in a foreign place, and to forget or remake themselves far from home. Amidst this hothouse atmosphere, a tragic incident causes three American women’s lives to collide in ways that will rewrite every assumption of their privileged world: Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, once again finds herself compromised an
£14.80
Penguin Putnam Inc The 13 Clocks penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Book SynopsisA giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has frozen time, for he is afraid that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of the Princess—the only warm hand in the castle. To thwart that fate, he sets impossible tasks for Saralinda’s suitors. But when the bold Prince Zorn of Zorna arrives, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and helped by the enigmatic Golux, the cold Duke may at last have met his match. Since it was first published in 1950, James Thurber’s sublimely whimsical fairy tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled has delighted readers of all ages. It is p
£15.20
Penguin Putnam Inc Modern Gods
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£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Swing Time
Book Synopsis“Smith’s thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives.” —O, The Oprah Magazine“A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith’s] most ambitious work yet.” —EsquireA New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAn ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abrup
£17.10
Penguin Putnam Inc There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her
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Penguin Putnam Inc Sky Burial Penguin Drop Caps
Book SynopsisFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a 'B' for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, and a 'C' for Willa Cather's <
£22.50
Penguin Putnam Inc Silver Bay
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£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc Adèle
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£13.60
Penguin Putnam Inc The House Swap
Book SynopsisA fantastic thriller--dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it. -Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight LineShe may not know exactly who is in her house. But she knows why they are there. Be careful who you let in…A house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a crumbling marriage, a long-buried affair, and the fatal consequences that unfold When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap--from their city apartment to a house in a leafy, upscale London suburb--they jump at the chance for a week away from home, their son, and the tensions that have pushed their marriage to the brink.As the couple settles in, the old problems that permeate their marriage--his unhealthy behaviors, her indiscretions--start bubbling to the surface. But while they attempt to mend their relationship, their neighbor, an intense young woman, is showing a little too much interest in the
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc A Room Called Earth A Novel
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£14.45
Penguin Putnam Inc Jillian
Book SynopsisThe sublimely awkward and hilarious (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award 5 Under 35-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me--now in a new editionTwenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist''s receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan''s bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. Megan and Jillian''s lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian''s case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Sanditon and Other Stories
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£12.60
Penguin Putnam Inc The Whale Rider
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£18.38
Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd Shiva Purana Vol. 1
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£22.09
Random House USA Inc The Color Master
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with hair the color of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard; a woman plays out a fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life; an ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children; and two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In each of The Color Master's fifteen remarkable stories, Aimee Bender holds a funhouse mirror up to reality, proving, once again, that she is one of the most intelligent and imaginative writers of our time.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Saints for All Occasions Vintage Contemporaries
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.This year’s best book about family. —Ron Charles, The Washington PostNora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan—a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if oppor
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Mulholland Books Black Wolf
Book SynopsisA 'masterful' and 'riveting' thriller about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union—and the path of a killer who shouldn’t exist (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author).She never forgets a face. He never forgets his prey. It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents—none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret; she is a “super recognizer,” someone who never forgets a face. But no training could prepare her for the reality of life undercover, and for the streets of Minsk, where women have been disappearing. Soviet law enforcement is firm: murder is a capitalist disease. But could a serial killer be at work? Especially if he knew no one was watching? As Mel searches for answers, she catches the eye of an entirely different kind of threat: the elusive and petrifying “Black Wolf,” head of the KGB. Filled with insider details from the author’s own time working under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense, Black Wolf is a riveting new spy thriller from an Edgar-nominated crime writer, and a biting exploration of the divide between two nations, two masterminds, and two roles played by a woman pushed to her breaking point, where she’ll learn that you can only ever trust one person: yourself.
£23.20
Little Brown and Company The Horsewoman
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£27.75
Little Brown and Company Reasons to Be Cheerful
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£20.80
Orbit The Stardust Thief
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£999.99
Little Brown and Company All Is Beauty Now
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£20.80
Little Brown and Company Lion Lamb
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£24.00
Little Brown and Company Holmes Marple Poe
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£27.00
Little Brown and Company 12 Months to Live
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£27.00
Back Bay Books Kingdomtide
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£14.44
Little Brown and Company One Day I Shall Astonish the World
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£21.60
Back Bay Books What We Were Promised
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£15.19
Back Bay Books Feast Days
Book SynopsisIntelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage. In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband''s career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home. But when Emma volunteers at a local church to assist refugees and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days, she finds herself unable to resist the tug of Sao Paulo''s political and social unrest. As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma''s marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts beneath the surface of their relationship. Feast Days is a sharply observed story of expatriate life, as well as a meditation on the hidden costs of modern living and how easily our belief systems can collapse around us. Devastating, funny and wise, it''s among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad.-Garth Greenwell
£13.59
Orbit The Last Song of Penelope
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£24.00
Little Brown and Company How to Be Eaten
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£22.40
Back Bay Books Necessary People
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£15.29
Redhook The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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£16.99
Orbit Baptism of Fire
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£27.00
Redhook A Radical Act of Free Magic
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£16.19
Back Bay Books The Snow Hare
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£16.14
Back Bay Books You Were Made for This
Book Synopsis A gripping page-turner for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Perfect Nanny, Michelle Sacks''s You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darkest sides of marriage, motherhood, and friendship. Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place. Merry adores the domestic life: baking, gardening, caring for her infant son. Sam, formerly an academic, is pursuing a new career as a filmmaker. Sometimes they can hardly believe how lucky they are. What perfect new lives they''ve built. When Merry''s childhood friend Frank visits their Swedish paradise, she immediately becomes part of the family. She bonds with Conor. And with Sam. She befriends the neighbors, and even finds herself embracing the domesticity she''s always seemed to scorn. All their lives, Frank and Merry have been more like sisters than best friends. And that''s why Frank soon sees the things others migh
£15.19
Little Brown and Company The Regrets
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£21.60
Mulholland Books Conviction
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£16.14
Back Bay Books How the OneArmed Sister Sweeps Her House
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£999.99
Little, Brown & Company I Love You Too Much
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£20.80
Little Brown and Company Lion Lamb
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£25.60
