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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (trans.)

From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.

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Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

A thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love and murder by New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth.

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Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine

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The Wren, The Wren

Anne Enright

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024, a sparkling family story of love, betrayal and reunion

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.

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Fire Rush

Jacqueline Crooks

In a scorching story of music, passion and self-discovery, love will set Yamaye free...

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Unruly: A HIstory of England’s Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators.

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The Anniversary

Stephanie Bishop

From award-winning Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

A meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even…

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The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.

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I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

The riveting novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

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Victory City

Salman Rushdie

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning…

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A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Jessie Tu

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two.

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Cuddy

Benjamin Myers

The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing

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The Fall Between

Darcy Tindale

From an exciting new voice in Australian crime fiction, a captivating and atmospheric rural thriller introducing Detective Rebecca Giles.

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Ripper

Shelley Burr

Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the town's ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their…

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Strangers at the Port

Lauren Aimee Curtis

Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.

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Brotherless Night

V. V. Ganeshananthan

A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war

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Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

A propulsive literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed…

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The Last Devil to Die (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 4)

Richard Osman

The fourth book in the Trecord-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British ntreasure RichardOsman

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Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

A TV script writer thinks she's done with romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions- a humorous, sharp and tender novel from the bestselling author of Eligible…

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Greek Lessons

Han Kang, Deborah Smith (trans.) & Emily Yae Won (trans)

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian

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The Guest

Emma Cline

The new novel from the author of the global phenomenon, The Girls

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The Collected Regrets of Clover

Mikki Brammer

The Collected Regrets of Clover is the burst of hopefulness we need right now. A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best…

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In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

If Richard Powers had written Arrival, an astonishing novel that is set to break out Martin MacInnes as one of the most important literary voices of his generation

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The Bookbinder of Jericho

Pip Williams

The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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The Happy Couple

Naoise Dolan

From the author of Exciting Times, this is a sparkling ensemble novel about love and marriage, fidelity and betrayal. Meet Celine and Luke. To all intents and purposes, the…

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The House of Doors

Tan Twan Eng

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists comes an evocative, rich tale of love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang

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Go as a River

Shelley Read

An epic story of self-discovery and becoming, set against the magnificent and breathtaking landscape of mid-century Colorado.

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Small Mercies

Dennis Lehane

New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River: an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against…

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Cursed Bread

Sophie Mackintosh

From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize - their freedom.

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Brutes

Dizz Tate

A coming-of-age story that 'manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood' (Stylist), from a fresh and radical new talent

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Hags

Victoria Smith

What is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?

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Fourth Wing (The Empryean, Book 1)

Rebecca Yarros

Dragons, war and Hunger Games-esque trials. Fourth Wing is a high-stakes, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas and dark academia.

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Age of Vice

Deepti Kapoor

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Tie-in)

Heather Morris

This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel.

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The Magician

Colm Toibin

In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.

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Dark Mode

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click…

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Happy Place

Emily Henry

Set over one sizzling summer, Happy Place is the new chemistry-filled 'second chance love' romcom from Tiktok sensation, New York and Sunday Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Book…

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Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood

A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon

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Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

This offbeat novel combines the heart and wit of Sorrow and Bliss with the joy and touch of surrealism in Schitts Creek. It is the funniest book you will…

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I Went to See My Father

Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)

Soon after losing her own daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside after many years away. Her father, a cattle farmer, is…

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Violets

Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)

A story of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure, Violets reveals the high stakes involved in one woman's desperate search for both autonomy and attachment in an unforgiving society.

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Old God’s Time

Sebastian Barry

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel…

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Liberation Day

George Saunders

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

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City of Dreams

Don Winslow

Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, 'The Godfather for our generation' (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy…

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Ghost Music

An Yu

For readers of early Murakami, a beautiful and uncanny novel of music, dreams and memory

For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of…

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Bestselling books in compact format

Kairos

Darling Girls

Enter Ghost

The Wren, The Wren

Prophet Song

Fire Rush

Unruly: A HIstory of England’s Kings and Queens

The Anniversary

Tom Lake

The Bee Sting

I Have Some Questions for You

Victory City

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Cuddy

The Fall Between

Ripper

Strangers at the Port

Brotherless Night

Birnam Wood

The Last Devil to Die (The Thursday Murder Club, Book 4)

Romantic Comedy

Greek Lessons

The Guest

The Collected Regrets of Clover

In Ascension

The Bookbinder of Jericho

The Happy Couple

The House of Doors

Go as a River

Small Mercies

Cursed Bread

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Brutes

Hags

Fourth Wing (The Empryean, Book 1)

Age of Vice

The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Tie-in)

The Magician

Dark Mode

Happy Place

Old Babes in the Wood

Big Swiss

I Went to See My Father

Violets

Old God’s Time

Liberation Day

City of Dreams

Ghost Music