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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Southern Man
£17.85
HarperCollins Snake Oil
£15.38
HarperCollins Brooklyn Crime Novel
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£12.44
HarperCollins Summer on Sag Harbor
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£13.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Summer on Highland Beach
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£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Midnight Feast
£13.46
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Horror Movie
£13.76
HarperCollins This Motherless Land
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£16.40
HarperCollins The Most Wonderful Time
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£16.83
HarperCollins Edenville
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£12.44
HarperCollins Terrace Story
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£12.40
HarperCollins My Magnolia Summer
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£15.19
Harpervia Everyone Leaves
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£10.44
HarperCollins A Sky of Emerald Stars
£15.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Eat Post Like
£11.70
HarperCollins Big in Sweden
Book Synopsis“Sally Franson is a world class entertainer. She can finesse a serio-comic moment in a way that leaves you catching your breath. Deft and delicious, this book is a flat out delight machine. A heart opener, a page turner, and a true ‘originell!'' I laughed out loud, I ugly cried, and I never, ever wanted it to end. -- Meg Ryan, actor, writer, directorA charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish reality show in an attempt to discover her roots. Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that’s more than enough for her. Yet one night on a lark, she lets Jemma convince her to audition for Sverige och Mig, a show on Swedish television where Swedish-Americans compete to win the ultimate prize: a reunion with their Swedish relatives. Much to her shock, her drunken submission video wins her a spot on the show, and against Declan’s advice Paulie decides to go for it.Armed with her Polaroid camera, a beat-up copy of Pippi Longstocking, and an unquenchable sense of possibility, Paulie hops on a plane to Sweden and launches into the contest with seven other Americans, all under the watchful eye of a camera crew. At first, Paulie is certain that she and her competitors have nothing in common besides their passports and views their bloodthirsty ambitions with suspicion. Yet amid the increasingly absurd challenges—rowing from Denmark to Sweden in the freezing rain, battling through obstacle courses, competing in a pickled herring eating contest—Paulie finds herself rethinking her snap judgments about her fellow countrymen, while her growing attachment to her Swedish roots increases her resolve to win the competition herself.Grappling with long-held notions of family, friendship, and love—not to mention her feelings for the distractingly handsome Swedish cameraman who’s been assigned to follow her around—Paulie starts to reconsider her past and rethink what she wants for the future. A fish-out-of-water tale filled with warmth, optimism, and wit, Big in Sweden is at its heart a love story: love for family, friends, country, and—most importantly—oneself. If you devoured Pippi Longstocking as a kid, you will not be able to turn away from Big in Sweden. Reading this hilarious, heartfelt book was even more fun than watching reality television. I absolutely loved it! — Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane
£25.20
HarperCollins The Memo
Book SynopsisThe perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny. —Airmail “A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Commencement, Maine, and Friends and StrangersIf you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this funny, sharp and propulsive debut novel about love, life, and a woman finding herself and what it means to be happy and successful.Do you ever feel like your life doesn’t measure up to everyone else’s—and wonder if you just didn’t get the memo helping you make the right choices?Jenny Green dreads her upcoming colle
£14.39
HarperCollins The Melancholy of Untold History
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£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Secret Keeper of Main Street
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£12.97
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Toward Eternity
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£11.92
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Horse
£12.30
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Reunion
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£10.44
HarperCollins The Love Fix
£15.19
HarperCollins Plays Well with Others
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£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Slow Dance
£13.68
HarperCollins Maya Natasha
£22.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Girls with Long Shadows
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Measure Deluxe Collectors Edition
£20.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Exorcist Deluxe Limited Edition
£20.55
Cornerstone Pistache
Book SynopsisSebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.Trade ReviewUnforgivably witty * Sunday Telegraph *Faulks picks up the big names of the Western canon and plonks them down mercilessly in the most unexpected places * The Times *
£9.49
Penguin Random House LLC In This Sign
Book SynopsisThe bestselling modern classic by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuringa new introduction by Sara Novic, author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz, and a new afterword by the author?Astute and wholly authentic . . . This novel isn?t only one of deaf hardship, but also one of bravery and great joy. . . . Over the course of it, I was often as gripped . . . as I am while reading a thriller.? ?Sara Novic, from the IntroductionA Penguin ClassicAbel and Janice meet at a school for the deaf. Sign language brings them together, enabling them to survive and, indeed, to forge a love too powerful to be broken by the world into which they were born. Spanning forty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, In This Sign follows the lives of Abel, Janice, and their hearing daughter, Margaret, as they contend uneasily with the ?Outside??a world designed, often purposely, to be inhospitable to those like them.First published in 1970,only a decade after ASL?s formal recognition as a language and well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, In This Sign stands out as a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community.For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
£14.40
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Swan Song
£10.80
Little Brown and Company Hey Zoey
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£20.39
Orbit A Letter to the Luminous Deep
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£17.09
Little, Brown & Company Freedom Is a Feast
Book SynopsisWinner of the Westport Prize for LiteratureA multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: a tour de force from the new master (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene).In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations.Almost forty years later, in a poor barrio of Caracas, María, a single mother, ekes out a precarious existence as a housekeeper, pouring her love into Eloy, her young son. Her devotion will not be enough, however, to keep them from disaster. On the eve of the attempted coup against President Chávez, Eloy is wounded by a stray bullet, fracturing her world. Amid the chaos at the hospital, María encounters Stanislavo, now a newspaper editor. Even as the country itself is convulsed by waves of unrest, this twist of fate forces a belated reckoning for Stanislavo, who may yet earn a chance to atone for old missteps before it''s too late.With its epic scope, gripping narrative, and unflinching intimacy, Freedom Is a Feast announces a major new talent. Alejandro Puyana has delivered a wise and moving debut about sticking to one''s beliefs at the expense of pain and chaos, about the way others can suffer for our misdeeds even when we have the best of intentions, and about the possibility for redemption when love persists across time.
£14.39
Little Brown and Company Swan Song
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£28.90
Little Brown and Company The Academy
£25.50
Little Brown and Company Emma on Fire
£18.15
Vintage Canada Strange Loops
Book SynopsisEnthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring. —Iain Reid A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs.As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond—but in adolescence the connection frayed, and in adulthood the siblings are locked in a repeating loop of complex, destructive emotions. Matters have reached a breaking point, and Francine, now in her thirties and the married mother of two small boys, is convinced that Philip’s teenaged infatuation with religion and subsequent ongoing obsession with his sister’s “moral impropriety”—sparked by his discovery of her involvement in a forbidden relationship—are to blame.As storm clouds of resentment and mutual betrayal gather ominously, threatening to upend both siblings’ lives and damage their families, Francine unexpectedly finds herself in a situation that mirrors her earlier transgression: stirred and unsettled by her attraction to a wildly inappropriate man. And the one person who suspects is the last person she trusts—her disapproving twin.With the plot twists of a thriller, lean prose crackling with intensity, and big ideas explored alongside the messy truth of human relationships, Strange Loops simultaneously shocks and thrills the reader, all while asking vital questions about faith, love, and desire.
£13.60
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Flashlight
£24.00
Penguin Random House LLC Everything There Is
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£11.79
Penguin Putnam Inc Little Rot
£12.35
Random House Publishing Group The White Book
Book SynopsisFROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citationSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian“Stunningly beautiful. . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”—NPR Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born.In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister, offering a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, and of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit.
£11.90
Faber And Faber Ltd. The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
Book Synopsis''Lyrical and profound, delving into the depths of human connection. You will cry.''GLAMOUR''Impressive . . . it gripped my heart and imagination.''JO BROWNING WROE''Intriguing . . . there is also significant charm and energy.''GUARDIAN''Compulsive, electrifying.''SPECTATOROne man, one choice, two lifetimes.In one unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As Max sleeps, a house fire creeps through his parents' shop. Woken by smoke, Max manages to escape orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his identity and his prospects.But when he awakes a second time to smoke, he finds he has the chance to save his parents and escape unharmed, facing life as a Jew in 1930s Austria.In each parallel universe, he is haunted by visions of what could have been. But in both worlds, he and his alter ego share a love with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl. . . READERS ADORE THE TWO LOVES OF SOPHIE STROM:''More than once moved me to tears.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''One of my top reads of the year.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Incredible! Thought-provoking, compelling and deeply moving.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Absolutely blew me away . . . I cannot recommend this book enough.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Eye-opening and thoroughly enjoyable.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I found myself wishing that the story would not end.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
£9.49
Faber & Faber May All Your Skies Be Blue
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£9.49
Andrew Sarkady ALLENFAR
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£14.83
Random House USA Inc Beautiful Nights
£18.78
