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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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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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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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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 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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Fourth Wing

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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My Name is Maame

Jessica George

Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, Maame is the most moving debut - and a heroine you'll never forget.

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Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey

One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt's Creek and Workin' Moms screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.

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A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon

A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree

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Life Ceremony

Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)

Radical, untamed, always unexpected: a thrilling, can't-look-away collection of stories from the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Convenience Store Woman

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Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson

A witty and wicked novel about New York's one percenters: their first loves, family feuds and the complexities of being human - even when you have everything.

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The Hero of this Book

Elizabeth McCracken

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing

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Tiny Uncertain Miracles

Michelle Johnston

Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect ...

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This Other Eden

Paul Harding

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time.

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Prettier if She Smiled More

Toni Jordan

A perfectionist's life unravels hilariously in this family comedy from the acclaimed author of Dinner with the Schnabels

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Babel

R.F. Kuang

An incendiary novel from award-winning author R.F. Kuang about the power of language, the violence of colonialism, and the sacrifices of resistance.

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Killing Moon

Killing Moon Jo Nesbo, Sean Kinsella (trans.)

Brand-new Detective Harry Hole thiller. This killer will get inside your head... and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

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The Shards

Bret Easton Ellis

A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer…

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She and Her Cat

Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa (trans.), Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)

The Japanese and Times bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrations

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The People Immortal

Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (trans.), Elizabeth Chandler (trans.)

Vasily Grossman’s third great war novel, written before Life and Fate and Stalingrad

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Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law

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Haven

Emma Donoghue

A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room.

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Illuminations

Alan Moore

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us…

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A Country of Eternal Light

Paul Dalgarno

An astonishingly inventive, playful, witty, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.

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The Furrows

Namwali Serpell

A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old Drift

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Bestselling books in compact format

Prophet Song

Tom Lake

The Bee Sting

Birnam Wood

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

Romantic Comedy

The Collected Regrets of Clover

In Ascension

The Bookbinder of Jericho

The House of Doors

Go as a River

Small Mercies

Cursed Bread

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Brutes

Fourth Wing

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

My Name is Maame

Really Good, Actually

A Day of Fallen Night

Life Ceremony

Pineapple Street

The Hero of this Book

Tiny Uncertain Miracles

This Other Eden

Prettier if She Smiled More

Babel

Killing Moon

The Shards

She and Her Cat

The People Immortal

Motherthing

Haven

Illuminations

A Country of Eternal Light

The Furrows