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'A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly'Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once: a fabulous, captivating novel' Nicci...
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On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials ‘L.E.L.’ What was she...
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'Kerry Hudson invites us to really understand the complexities of being born working class in Britain. Buy it, read it, tell everyone about it' Jack Monroe ‘One of the most important books of the year’ Guardian 'When every day of your life you have been told you have...
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‘Just downright brilliant... a transcendant, transporting experience’ Observer‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.A newborn baby is the sole...
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*An Observer Hottest-Tipped Debut Novelist of 2019 and Elle One To Watch*'I think this is the best debut fiction I've ever read… If you like David Nicholls, Tessa Hadley, Elizabeth Day, Meg Wolitzer, Donna Tartt…it's exceptional' Pandora Sykes The High Low‘Kate Quaile,’...
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From one of America’s greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history....
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*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*‘A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks…do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?’ The TimesAmerica is in crisis. In the space of a generation the country has...
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A NEW TRANSLATION BY STEVE ELLISHalfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on?This is the starting point of one of the most...
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A haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy.'A small miracle' The New York Times‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’Deep underground, thirty-nine...
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This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and obscure the...
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