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The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans.)

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo

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Hurricane Season

Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)

An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers.

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Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Isabella Hammad

An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Nathan Thrall

A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision

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Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of…

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A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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Australian Gospel

Lech Blaine

From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

One of Bookpage’s Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join America’s funniest science writer (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife…

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A Season of Death

Mark Raphael Baker

An uplifting memoir on living well in the face of death

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the…

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The Details

Ia Genberg, Kira Josefssonv (trans.)

A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.

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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, the author…

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Scaffolding

Lauren Elkin

The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse

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The Anthropologists

Ayşegül Savaş

Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of home-building and modern love, written with Aysegül…

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a massacre decades earlier.

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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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The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Imogen Hermes Gowar

‘A cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession’ The Times SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 One September evening in…

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Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Richard Stoneman

Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. This book gathers hundreds of the colourful Alexander legends that have been told and…

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an…

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Eastbound

Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (trans.)

Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a…

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A Curse of Salt

Sarah Street

A heartless beast trapped by a curse. A brave beauty searching for answers. And a love so strong it will drown the raging sea … This fairytale is cursed. Prepare…

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After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

The first of a new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century

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Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

Esme Symes-Smith

When their ex-hero dad is summoned back to the royal capital of Helston to train a hopeless crown prince, Callie lunges at the opportunity to finally prove themself worthy to…

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

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Fragile Creatures

Khin Myint

A powerful debut, from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremity

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee

Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits…

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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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Hunger

Lan Samantha Chang

A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant families

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Hospital

Sanya Rushdi, Arunava Sinha (trans.)

In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a…

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These Precious Days

Ann Patchett

An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House.

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All Fours

Miranda July

The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life

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Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Elisa Chenoweth

Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchange gone hilariously, criminally wrong.

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Reading the Room

Paul Yamazaki

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.

Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks…

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The Radetzky March

Joseph Roth

Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration…

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The Wren in the Holly Library

K.A Linde

Set in an alternate day New York filled with monsters, The Wren in the Holly Library is a dark, spicy romantasy loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast - perfect…

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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)

A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic.

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My Father’s Suitcase

Mary Garden

A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling.

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Long Island

Colm Tóibín

A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.

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Ghost Mountain

Ronan Hession

Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding…

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Verdigris

Michele Mari, Brian Robert Moore (trans.)

A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying…

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Mongrel

Hanako Footman

An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways

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A Shining

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)

Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latestwork of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde).

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The Passion According to G.H

Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey (trans.)

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white ‘as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed’. There…

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The Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (trans.)

From the international bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, soon to be a major film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal.

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Where Reasons End

Yiyun Li

A devastating and utterly original portrait of motherhood and grief.

A woman’s teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts…

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House of Salt and Sorrows

Erin A. Craig

On a remote island estate, Annaleigh Thaumas, the sixth-born of twelve sisters, enlists the aid of an alluring stranger to unravel the family curse before it claims her life.

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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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Thanks for Having Me

Emma Darragh

The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer…

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What we're reading

The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Hurricane Season

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Horror Movie

A Month in the Country

Australian Gospel

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

A Season of Death

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

The Details

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Scaffolding

The Anthropologists

The Only One Left

Ripper

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Sandwich

Eastbound

A Curse of Salt

After the Funeral

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

Station Eleven

Fragile Creatures

Close to Home

Brotherless Night

Hunger

Hospital

These Precious Days

All Fours

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Reading the Room

The Radetzky March

The Wren in the Holly Library

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

My Father’s Suitcase

Long Island

Ghost Mountain

Verdigris

Mongrel

A Shining

The Passion According to G.H

The Lost Daughter

Where Reasons End

House of Salt and Sorrows

Kairos

Thanks for Having Me