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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Imagined Life
£22.40
Penguin Random House LLC How to Hide in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisThe unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the author of Guy''s Girl. On the day she arrives in Canada for her older brother''s wedding, Eliot Beck hasn''t seen her family in three years. Eliot adores her big, wacky, dysfunctional collection of siblings and in-laws, but there''s a reason she fled to Manhattan and buried herself in her work?and she?s not ready to share it with anyone. Not when speaking it aloud could send her backinto the never-ending cycle of the obsessive-compulsive disorder that consumed her for years. Eliot thinks she''s prepared to survive the four-day-long wedding extravaganza?until she sees her best friend, Manuel, waiting for her at the marina and looking as handsome as ever. He was the person who, when they met as children, felt like finding the missing half of her soul. The person she tried so hard not to fall in love with… but did anyway. Manuel''s presence at the wedding threatens to undo the walls Eliot has built around herself. The fortress that keeps her okay. If she isn''t careful, by the end of this wedding, the whole castle might come crumbling down.
£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc Malas A GMA Book Club Pick
£14.63
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Mr. Texas
Book SynopsisAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics • A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives • Required reading in these politically turbulent times.”—Susan Orlean, author of On Animals“A rollicking satire . . .— Paul Begala, The New York Times Book Review Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone’s headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbor’s farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm where his heroic actions make the evening news.Almost immediately, and seemingly out of nowhere, a handsomely dressed lobbyist from Austin arrives at his ranch door and asks if he’d like to run for his West Texas district’s seat in the state legislature. Though Sonny has zero experience and doesn’t consider himself political at all, the fate of his ranch—and perhaps his marriage to the lovely “cowgirl” Lola—hangs in the balance. With seemingly no other choice, Sonny decides to throw his hat in the ring .As he navigates life in politics—from running a campaign to negotiating in the capitol—Sonny must learn the ropes, weighing his own ethics and environmental concerns against the pressures of veteran politicians, savvy lobbyists, and his own party. In tracing Sonny’s attempt to balance his marriage and morality with an increasingly volatile professional life, Lawrence Wright has crafted an irresistibly funny and clever roller-coaster ride about one man’s pursuit of goodness in the Lonestar State.
£13.09
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Hypocrite
Book SynopsisONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice.“A sharp book, beautifully written.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and EntitlementExcellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders clenched but full of admiration. —David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric LiteratureAugust 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.
£14.45
Doubleday Books Blessings
£14.40
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee
Book SynopsisThe latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address navigating their enchanting and eventful lives.Angus Lordie is approached in the park by a shadowy, Deep Throat-like figure with government secrets to share, who mistakes him for a journalist. Now Angus is privy to some controversial plans of the Scottish Parliament—but just what is he meant to do about it? Elsewhere, Big Lou’s husband Bob hires a personal trainer who changes his entire outlook on life, much to Lou’s dismay. At the schoolhouse, young Bertie Pollock’s class has a new ringleader, Galactica MacFee, who quickly comes between Bertie and Olive. All this proves too much for Bertie to bear, and he flees to Glasgow with best friend Ranald Braveheart MacPherson in tow. And the indomitable Irene again finds herself in Edinburgh ... and it looks like there might be romance in the air.
£14.45
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Hypocrite
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£17.02
Random House USA Inc Small Ceremonies
£23.38
Penguin Publishing Group The Boyhood of Cain
£21.75
Penguin Publishing Group Stop Me If Youve Heard This One
Book SynopsisNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY PEOPLE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE MILLIONS, AND NBC TODAYFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny. - VogueAs much heart, humor, and gritty realness as can fit between two covers. - PeopleCherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she?s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she?s always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers.Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent?a much older lesbian magician?who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot?s mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It?s not long before Cherry must decide how much she?s willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act?and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit. Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You''ve Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.
£22.40
Random House USA Inc I Am Clarence
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£14.45
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Dont Be a Stranger
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life • A luminous story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion that will appeal to readers of Miranda July's All Fours “Minot exquisitely explores desire and denial, intimacy and illusion in a ravishing, haunting, and insightful tale of sexual ecstasy and emotional torment, integrity and creativity, self and motherhood.” —Booklist (starred review)Minot’s writing is like a diamond knife on ice.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning authorIvy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity in
£999.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pearl
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£999.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Going Home
Book SynopsisGoing Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected lossTéo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to the suburbs on the occasional weekend to visit his old friends, he makes sure everyone knows he can afford to pick up the tab. So what if he asks a few too many questions about Lia, the girl of their group, wondering if she will come out, if she’s seeing anyone, if she might give him another shot? Téo is hazily aware that something possibly happened between Lia and Ben Mossam, Téo’s closest friend and his greatest annoyance, but he can’t bring himself to ask. Lia, meanwhile, has no time to indulge their rivalry. She’s now the single mother of a toddler son, a kid named Joel that Téo occasionally (and halfheartedly) offers to babysit.Téo is home for one such weekend when the unthinkable happens—a tragedy in the heart of their group—and he suddenly finds himself the unlikely guardian for little Joel. Together with his father, Vic, Ben Mossam, and Sybil, Lia’s beguiling rabbi, they bide time until they can find a proper home for Joel, teaching him to play video games, plying him with chicken nuggets and waffles, and learning to sing him lullabies at night. But when a juvenile mistake leads to a terrible betrayal, Téo must decide what kind of man he wants to be. Wise, relatable, and blissfully laugh-out-loud funny, Going Home is a captivating first novel that explores the mysterious ways children can force us to grow up fast while simultaneously keeping us young forever.
£22.40
Penguin Publishing Group The Ancients
£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc Favorite Daughter
£20.09
Penguin Putnam Inc Pan
£19.73
Penguin Putnam Inc Among Friends
£18.62
Diversified Publishing Entitlement
Book SynopsisNAMED ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S “BEST BOOKS WE’VE READ IN 2024”ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 50 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024 ONE OF KIRKUS’S “BEST BOOK CLUB FICTION OF 2024” ONE OF REAL SIMPLE’S BEST BOOKS OF 2O24“Rumaan Alam is a rarity...Entitlement — a psychological thriller that subtly turns into a vicious exposé of affluent liberalism— also sneaks up on you, and wins you over.”—The New York TimesA brilliant exploration of extreme wealth and how it bends the lives of those close to it... Alam keeps things crystal clear and speedway fast. —The Boston Globe“Should come with an undertow warning.”—Louise ErdrichA novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindBrooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
£28.80
Random House Publishing Group Best Woman
£22.88
Random House USA Inc Universality
£16.50
Park Row Books The Weekend Crashers
£28.35
Mira Books Just Over the Mountain
£16.80
Mira Books Four Friends
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£11.55
Mira Books A Summer for the Books
£18.04
Harlequin Audio First Wifes Shadow
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£22.50
Harlequin Audio The Girl I Was Standard Edition
£26.09
Mira Books The Cover Girl
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£26.09
Park Row Books Good Husbands
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£9.99
Mira Books Contemplation of a Crime
£18.04
Ohio University Press Trampoline
£14.99
Maclean Dubois The Bright Fabric of Life
Book SynopsisMhairi Collie OBE is a consultant surgeon in Edinburgh. Since 2001 she has regularly undertaken surgery in sub-Saharan Africa to treat women with childbirth injuries. She initially worked for Médecins sans frontières, then co-founded the charity Uganda Childbirth Injury Fund. She is married, with two children and a very naughty springer spaniel.
£12.99
St. Martin's Publishing Group High Season
£23.20
Celadon Books Honey
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£18.33
Tor Publishing Group Reliquary
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£13.78
St Martin's Press The Goldens
£23.19
Tor Publishing Group Camp Damascus
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£12.40
Flatiron Books The Singer Sisters
£17.09
Harlequin Silver Wedding Bows
£28.35
Harlequin The Hometown Legend
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£10.80
Harlequin Wild Iris Ridge
£9.99
Harlequin Things We Keep Hidden
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£18.04
Harlequin Their Surprise Reunion
£8.99
Harlequin Her Hometown Bull Rider
£8.99
Harlequin Fortunes Unexpected Gift
£9.36
Harlequin COWBOYING UP
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£10.79
Harlequin Special Edition Sweet on a Younger Man
£9.46
