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The BBC Sort Your Life Out team
To accompany a new series of the hit BBC1 show, the life-changing tidying and cleaning book of the hit BBC One show from the Sort Your Life Out team. With…
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J.M. Coetzee
After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry…
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Alison Gazzard
The story of a pioneering microcomputer- its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.
The story of a pioneering microcomputer- its…
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James Procter
A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the…
Rory Cellan-Jones
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania, comes a compelling memoir in search of the…
Jill Johnson
Reclusive botanist Professor Eustacia Rose turns sleuth when her neighbour is abducted and is drawn into a world of intrigue where people are as toxic as the plants she studies.
Hannah Kent
Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites is a stunning work of historical fiction following the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.
Natasha Pulley
When an apocalyptic dust storm engulfs Mars, cutting off power to the capital, a refugee and a politician must find a way to make the PR stunt that is their…
Sheila Armstrong
*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *
'Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection' PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT
'Lush, lyrical and cleverly-constructed. A…
On an isolated beach set against a lonely, windswept coastline, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand dune staring out towards the burnt carcass of a shipwrecked cargo ship…
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This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of 'radio modernisms' from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. This…
Lottie Mills
A darkly atmospheric and beautifully crafted meditation on otherness, from an award-winning young writer
Anthony Horowitz
Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz offers up a whodunit like no other in this fiendish crime thriller - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie vintage crime.
Vikram Seth
The 20th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel by Vikram Seth. Now a major BBC drama. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC’S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
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Elaine Feeney
Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year
Katriona O'Sullivan
'One of the best books I have ever read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' Guardian
As the…
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were.
Ian Rankin
The seventh Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES. 'Rankin continues to be unsurpassed among living British crime writers' THE TIMES
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Kevin Jared Hosein
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 *
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 *
'A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic' THE…
Carole Hailey
A powerful debut novel that explores a complex mother-daughter relationship. What is it like to be the daughter of a woman who started a cult that changed the world?
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Saba Sams
SELECTED FOR STYLIST’S BOOKS YOU CAN’T MISS IN 2022 - ‘A MUST READ’
‘An exhilarating debut’ GUARDIAN
‘A fresh new voice in fiction, wry and sharp and raw’ EMMA CLINE
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies, The Dance Tree is a transporting story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of…
Paul Murton
Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world the Hebrides.In this new and updated edition of his acclaimed book, Paul visits each…
Henry Laurence
This book explores the remarkably similar national public broadcasters of Britain and Japan - the BBC and NHK.
John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars. How does a hero turn villain? Or have times changed, and…
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Mohsin Hamid
Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn’t go on.
Emily Howes
An award-winning first novel about art, sisterhood and madness, inspired by the two daughters of painter Thomas Gainsborough, who spent their lives trying and failing to live up to the…
The iconic Ian Rankin returns with a new Detective John Rebus novel: an instant Number One bestseller in hardback, and this summer’s essential must-read paperback.
Edward Enninful
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *
'I wish he could be editor…
Ann Patchett
'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan…
Andrew Harding
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan.
THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT
A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK
'A new Ann Patchett novel is…
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
A brilliant debut from a hugely talented writer. Compelling and compassionate, Big Girl is an unforgettable portrait of a queer Black girl as she learns to take up space in…
Mo Hayder
The sensational Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, soon to be an international TV series (BBC/HBO). Who's afraid?
SHE'S LOCKED THE DOOR BUT THE KILLER'S INSIDE
I believe, from what…
Peter Pomerantsev
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him…
The highly anticipated brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin
Jo Baker
Riveting and moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from acclaimed and bestselling author Jo Baker - a love story, a war story, and an unforgettable journey into…
Naomi Wood
A debut short story collection from award-winning novelist Naomi Wood, exploring the dark side of family and femininity. Contains the story 'Comorbidities', winner of the BBC Short Story Award.
John le Carre
A 26-year-old solitary figure, desperate to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a dangerous path.
Ian McGuire
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original novel, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
Julie Mae Cohen
'Fans of How To Kill Your Family will love Saffy, the serial-killing heroine of Bad Men' - RED MAGAZINE 'Silence of the Lambs meets Sex and the City' - FT
Jen Stout
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, where she began to cover the human cost of Russian…
Jo Callaghan
In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human.
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Mecca Jamila Sullivan
Compelling and compassionate, Big Girl is an unforgettable portrait of a queer Black girl as she learns to take up space in the world on her own terms.
Orlando Whitfield
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless - if you can pay the price.
Maria Smilios
An Oprah Book title telling the true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history.