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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2016
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From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years, a story of first love and redemption. One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-nineties north London, The Lesser Bohemiansis a story about love and innocence, joy and discovery, the grip of the past and the struggle to be new again....
2) The son
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Love, honour, children are sacrificed in the name of ambition, as the family becomes one of the richest powers in Texas, a dynasty of unsurpassed...
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Pub. Date
2022
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1629. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. During the long voyage, this curious and resourceful child must find her place in the ship's busy world, and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck. As tensions spiral, the fate of the ship and all on board becomes increasingly uncertain. 1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death of his mother, is...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Don?t miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! She ran along the snow-covered cobbles, gripping her sewing box - fate in her hands?Living hand to mouth ever since her mother?s tragic death, Amelia sells the last of her treasured possessions to avoid being cast out of her home onto London?s streets. Her estranged grandfather unexpectedly bequeaths a small, struggling factory making mourning...
5) Freckles
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Pub. Date
2021
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Five people. Five chances. One woman's search for happiness. Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside. The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that...
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It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel?s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
7) The women
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
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Soon to be a major motion picture! 'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry It would be the journey of a lifetime . . . ?Women can be heroes, too?. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances ?Frankie? McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California?s idyllic...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Brand NEW from No1 Million Copy Bestselling Author Shari Low What would you do if you had just twenty-four hours to change your life? Ailish Ryan has been in hiding since her husband?s affair ended their marriage. But when a friend forces her to face her new reality, will she choose to revisit the past or embrace a brand-new future? Ailish?s daughter, Emmy, thought her boyfriend was nothing like her cheating father, but now she?s not so sure. As the...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Longlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize ?Original, memorable, shimmering? - Sarah Moss Lia has only one child, Iris; her magical, awkward, endlessly creative daughter who has just entered the battleground of her teenage years. Lia and Iris have always been close, but there is a war playing...
10) Dragon rider
Author
Series
Soulbound Saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
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Jai has spent his life forced to serve the cruel empire that killed his family and now rules his people. To grow ever more powerful, the emperor's young son is betrothed to Princess Erica of the Dansk Kingdom. An unconquerable realm, where ancient beasts roam. The princess brings with her a priceless gift: dragons. Only Dansk Royalty can bond with these magical beasts to draw on their power and strength. Until now. When the betrothal goes wrong, a...
11) Open water
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence. At once an achingly beautiful...
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Series
Roots of Chaos volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hr�th, narrowly saving both realms...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Do you fondly remember messaging your crush on MSN after school? Miss those shoes that never recovered from the sticky floors of your hometown nightclub? And can't stand your spare-room housemate after lockdown?! Then escape with this summer's most feel-good read! 'THE YEAR'S MOST ORIGINAL ROMCOM' ELLE 'David Nicholls for millennials' i 'Made me smile, laugh, cringe and inwardly cheer' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Found myself wincing and laughing with familiarity'...
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Cornish Cove volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A perfect new start in Cornwall? Meredith's life is at a standstill. She's stuck in a dead-end job, approaching fifty, and her dating life is a string of disasters. But one evening, while browsing the internet, she sees an ad for a lighthouse, and in a moment of impulsiveness, she makes a ridiculous bid for it. With the help of local handyman Clem, she sets about renovating. And as they work together, a bond begins to form. But when Meredith finds...
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu-the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army-spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
16) Man on fire
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Description
I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke. John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
BRAND NEW from bestselling author Alex Brown Mamma Mia meets Shirley Valentine in the brand-new holiday romance for 2024 from the International No.1 bestseller. Gina Bennett has had enough after her husband of twenty-seven years lets her down one time too many. Deciding to choose herself, she embarks on a transformative solo journey to break free from the monotony of her life. She escapes to the gorgeous Greek island of Kalosiros, where she holidayed...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Kent, 1939 Soon to marry her childhood sweetheart, Eliza thinks her life is set. But when war breaks out, everything changes and, while helping the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, she bumps into Lewis, an unforgettable stranger from her past. Eliza?s in-laws? country home becomes a cell for code breakers receiving messages from the French Resistance, with Eliza as translator. When Lewis is assigned to head up the team, the pair fall dangerously in...
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Series
Ever After Street volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the uplifting Ever After Street series from Jaimie Admans A brand new and utterly enchanting series by bestselling author Jaimie Admans. A picture-perfect town, a place where dreams come true. Welcome to Ever After Street... There's always time for tea... unless you've lost your teapot? Cleo Jordan has only ever wished for one thing - to open her own teashop in memory of her lovely gran. So when she accidentally...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Charlie Matthews?s love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life, until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called ?Lucky Star? ... On his ninth birthday, Charlie discovers Madonna, and falls...
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