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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
'Surreal and unsettling' Observer Autumn Cultural Highlights 'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript...
2) Who they was
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he?s Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the...
3) Wild
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Language
English
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From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the promise of new beginnings. In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest - a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious land, a six-year-old girl appears....
4) Neighbours
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognisable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has shut herself away from the world, living in her San Francisco mansion. Then, on a late summer day, a devastating earthquake strikes, plunging the city into chaos. Without hesitation, Meredith invites her now homeless neighbours into her largely undamaged house as the...
5) Open water
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
7) The fell
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Acclaimed author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss is back with a sharply observed and darkly funny novel for our times. 'A tense page turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue **'**This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year' - Rachel Joyce At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period,...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are forced from their homes by bombing, compelled to seek shelter in the countryside where there are barely the resources to feed them. Twelve-year-old Luisa, her mother, and her older sister Billie have escaped the devastation of the city for the relative safety of a dairy farm. But even here the power struggles of the war play out: the family depend on the goodwill of Luisa?s brother-in-law,...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Secrets can unite, and they can divide. Will he be able to make things right between them? In the small town of Little Heart, Juliette Kerr and Joel Hunter are drawn together by their shared experience being targeted by school bullies. But when the bullying takes a drastic turn, Juliette can see no other way to protect Joel from the aftermath than to break his heart and make him leave her behind. Devastated and confused, Joel packs his bags, heading...
10) The kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
*A THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR* Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carl's parents die suddenly, sixteen-year-old Roy is left as protector to his impulsive younger brother. But when Carl decides to travel the world in search of his fortune, Roy stays behind in their sleepy village, satisfied with his peaceful...
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Series
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love. She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the battlefield is just a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a society that allows women to practise medicine....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Underneath her graceful exterior lies a passion nobody knew about, least of all Flappy herself? Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word. Her life is a reflection of herself...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners.Florence doesn?t care about the gossips - she?s drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains and now Florence...
15) Victoria park
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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'Original, thought-provoking' - Elizabeth Macneal Mona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary, they must decide how to navigate Mona's declining health. Bookended by the touching exploration of their love, Victoria Park follows the disparate lives of twelve people over the course of a single year. Told from their multiple perspectives in episodes which capture feelings...
16) The house fire
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Play with fire and you?ll get burned . . .Who can you trust in this brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller? A tired old seaside town hiding a series of unsolved arson attacks .A derelict mansion in the woods with a long-buried secret. A bundle of old love letters that mask a dark story.When Jamie's documentary investigation gets too close to uncovering the truth behind a series of deadly arson attacks thattormented Abbeywick in the 1980s,...
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English
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Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is wasting away, ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home. Bea knows she cannot stay in the city, but there is only one alternative: The Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming, untamed land is untouched by mankind. Until now. Somewhere between a science experiment and a refugee, Bea and Agnes slowly learn how to live in this unpredictable, often...
18) Snowflake
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Publisher
Manilla Press
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the...
Author
Series
Cornish Escapes volume 2
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming novel of new beginnings, community and finding your tribe when you need them the most?A precious heirloom passed down from mother to daughter?Lowena Rowe?s beloved mum always claimed her family seed box was special. Said to contain soil from Tintagel, the mysterious seat of the legendary King Arthur, whomever made a wish upon the box would have ?a beautiful garden, bountiful crops and love of their fellow man?. Lowena isn?t inclined...
20) Find you first
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of - except time. Now facing a terminal illness, Miles knows he must seize every minute to put his life in order. And that means taking a long hard look at his past. Somewhere out there, Miles has children. And they might be about to inherit both the good and bad from him - possibly his fortune, or possibly something more deadly. So Miles decides to track down...
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