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  • In Ascension

    Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023

    by Martin MacInnes ...
    'Monumental' Telegraph'Magnificent' Guardian'Transcendent' New ScientistLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration ... ... Read more

    £6.99 £0.99

  • Absolutely and Forever

    An electrifying love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily

    by Rose Tremain ...
    'An electrifying, word-perfect tale… Gently devastating, devastatingly beautiful’ Daily Mail'Funny, piercing, and singular… I can’t fathom the reason why you wouldn’t rush straight out to buy it’ ObserverDetermined, rebellious Marianne Clifford is searching for love and freedom in 1960s LondonHow do you find the courage to make ... ... Read more

    £8.99

  • How to Kill Your Family

    by Bella Mackie ...
    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThey say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them.Meet Grace Bernard.Daughter, sister, serial killer…Grace has lost everything.And she will stop at nothing ... ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99

  • The Great Unexpected

    by Dan Mooney ...
    “If you’re going to end it, you better make it big. No slipping off bridges, it’s undignified for men of our vintage. Go big or don’t bother.”Joel lives in a nursing home and he’s not one bit happy about it. He doesn’t like being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. In fact, he doesn’t like living at all, and he’s decided he’s going to end his life on his terms.When he tells ... Read more

    £3.99 £0.99

  • Before Your Memory Fades

    by Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...
    Book 3 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
    **The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?**On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling ... Read more

    £0.99

  • A German Christmas

    Festive Tales From Berlin to Bavaria

    by Random House ...
    series Vintage Christmas Tales
    **From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditions*A Daily Express Book of the Year***Eine fröhliche Weihnachten -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, roast goose and red cabbage, tinsel and stollen cakes, accompanied by ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Nightcrawling

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - the youngest ever Booker nominee

    by Leila Mottley ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 – THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEETHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore' THE TIMES'A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope' OPRAH WINFREY___________... ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Prophet Song

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

    by Paul Lynch ...
    'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianismOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed ... Read more

    £9.99

  • Wednesday’s Child

    by Yiyun Li ...
    ‘Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration’ Sigrid Nunez ‘One of our finest living authors’ New York TimesA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

    by Gail Honeyman ...
    Over 2.5 million copies sold‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina StibbeWinner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the Book of the YearEleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to liveEleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal dea... ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99

  • Leave the World Behind

    'The book of an era' Independent

    by Rumaan Alam ...
    SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, KEVIN BACON, ETHAN HAWKE AND MAHERSHALA ALI*A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021*'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have st... ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Trust

    Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    by Hernan Diaz ...
    **WINNER of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker PrizeOne of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the YearThe Sunday Times BestsellerTrust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s New York.Can one person change the course of history?**A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the ... Read more

    £5.99

  • The Doll Factory

    The Sunday Times Bestseller, BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick and BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

    by Elizabeth Macneal ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK – BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMENow a major TV series with Paramount+'A sharp, scary tale of love, art and obsession' – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainDesire can be deadlyLondon. 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a painter who is desperate f... ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

    by Simard Matthieu ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    'An eerie meditation on the shattering power of grief and the painful search for any kind of redemption.'– Will Maclean, author of The Apparition Phase'A horror story with the horror drained out. What remains is the insoluble wreckage of the grief left behind. It is beautiful and deeply moving.'– Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of IteSimon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. They decide to flee the ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Death in the Parish

    The sequel to Murder Before Evensong

    by Reverend Richard Coles ...
    series Canon Clement Mystery
    THE SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MURDER BEFORE EVENSONGCANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother ... Read more

    £0.99

  • The Service

    by Frankie Miren ...
    Lori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life. Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an escort than she could in an office; life, after all, is already a tangle of madness and dissociation. And Paula is a journalist whose long-term campaign against prostitution has ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I'm a Fan

    by Sheena Patel ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR (DISCOVER) 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023AN OBSERVER BES... ... Read more

    £7.99 £0.99

  • The Witching Tide

    The perfect companion for winter nights, curl up with the gripping debut novel this Christmas

    by Margaret Meyer ...
    'Stylish and raw . . . seizes the reader's sympathy and does not let go'Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author of The GatheringEast Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak.One Autumn morning, the peaceful atmosphere of Cleftwater ... Read more

    £0.99

  • The Undertaker's Assistant

    A Captivating Post-Civil War Era Novel of Southern Historical Fiction

    by Amanda Skenandore ...
    An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans that features an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart.“The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the ... Read more

    £9.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ask Again, Yes

    The gripping, emotional and life-affirming New York Times bestseller

    by Mary Beth Keane ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 2 SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK'The new Little Fires Everywhere . . . The perfect summer read' STYLIST'Stunning! An absolutely brilliant, gorgeously-written novel. A must-read for our time' LISA TADDEO'Immersive and deeply moving' ANNA HOPE'I absolutely adored it' LIANE MORIARTY*Features... ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Demon Copperhead

    Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

    by Barbara Kingsolver ...
    A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse-and his efforts to conquer them. - the PulitzerTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ... Read more

    £5.99

  • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

    by Mariana Enriquez ...
    Translated by Megan McDowell ...
    'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bola�o, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train' Dave EggersWelcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. These brilliant, unsettling ... Read more

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  • When We Were Brave

    A completely gripping and emotional WW2 historical novel

    by Suzanne Kelman ...
    The face of the woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment, even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her… 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years. ... Read more

    £1.99 £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Be Mother

    The debut novel from the author of Sorrow and Bliss

    by Meg Mason ...
    EVENING STANDARD'S 'BEST FICTION BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2022'What do you do, when you find the perfect family......and it's not yours?'Rare and delightful . . . A beautifully crafted novel about female relationships. I couldn't put this book down'Marie ClaireThe only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange s... ... Read more

    £0.99