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Tochi Eze

'THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is a spellbinding tale of family secrets and how the influence of past generations impacts on the present. Eze expertly weaves together the elements that show how, over the course of a century, a family can break apart and heal. An excellent debut' Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City‘Tochi Eze is a storyteller that the ancestors would be proud of. With masterful strokes, she knits together a beguiling story of history, tragedy, fa...

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Tochi Eze

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Diana Yekinni

A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family.In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Despite Margaret’s reluctance, their connection is immediate. They fall in love in the dense, humid city, examining what appears to be th...

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Tochi Eze

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Diana Yekinni

Brought to you by Penguin.‘Where are the fragments of the life you have lived?’2005In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories.In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she ca...

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Emily Slapper

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Charlie Sanderson, Jonathan Case

'Thought-provoking and beautifully written' Daily Mail 'Strangely compelling' The Times 'Astonishing. If you like Sally Rooney, read this book' Hattie Williams(Look at these two. They have been sure that their fate is in their own hands – they have been desperate to believe this – and now they are learning it is not.The ending is a pivotal moment in their story.)No...

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Arthur Parkinson

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Arthur Parkinson

Brought to you by Penguin.A captivating testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower YardMost of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young – but for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called him 'Chicken Boy'. The quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became...

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Heather Clark

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Cassandra Campbell, Daniel Henning, Philippe Klaus, Mark Sanderlin

**From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death“An elegant, unsettling novel about the burden of history and the illusions of love.” —Sana Krasikov, author of The Patriots**The traumas of the past a...

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Fabienne Josaphat

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Robin Miles

From a PEN/Bellwether Prizewinner, a "beautifully convincing slice of history" novel about the Black Panther Party, perfect for fans of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Dubois (Barbara Kingsolver).Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers’ Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968 and is soon swept up in an all-consuming love affair with Melvin Mosley, a defense captain of the Black Panther Party. When Nettie and Melvin head to Chicago to help launch the Illinois chapter of t...

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Yrsa Daley-Ward

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Yrsa Daley-Ward

**Brought to you by Penguin.A darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity.**Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life.Cla...

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Karl Eidem, Jale Poljarevius

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Jennifer Woodward

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Jane Davis

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Hannah Kaufman

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman.On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she's confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men are inside the children's hospital, threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren't met.Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, ins...

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B. A. Shapiro

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Lucy Rayner, Christine Lakin, Hannah Curtis, B. A. Shapiro

An enigmatic painting. The mystery of who painted it. A riveting thriller from the bestselling author of The Art Forger.In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-nineteenth-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot—the one woman in their midst who never got her due—and the story of Morisot’s great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherite...

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Daniel Lewis

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Kaleo Griffith

*Chosen by Waterstones as one of their best Nature Writing Books of 2024, and by The Economist as one of their best books of 2024*'A heartwarming guide to these fascinating giants of nature . . . A book that is full of surprises . . . Highly empathetic and informative' Independent'A global arboreal odyssey' Guardian‘Marvellous' The Economist'Enlightening, it ...

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Jo Morey

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Chloe Sommer, Laurence Dobiesz

With the sultry atmosphere and ratcheting tension of The White Lotus, The Mosquito Coast, and Nine Perfect Strangers, Lime Juice Money is an intoxicating, sensuous debut that follows a woman trapped in an increasingly volatile relationship 5,000 miles from home in a Central American jungle.A woman losing herself. A brutal relationship. And a jungle full of secrets.When disaster strikes, hearing-impaired Laelia Wylde leave...