Fiction
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
A young man plots to unearth a secret from an elderly countess-a secret he believes will win him a fortune. 'The Queen of Spades' is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story 'The Stationmaster'; the narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman'; a selection of Pushkin's lyric
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In Love
An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a lonely divorcee; of how one night she was offered one thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Love is an indictment of, and an elegy to, a love affair that was doom
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Effi Briest
Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia. He is twenty years her senior, an ambitious bureaucrat who is uninterested in his young wife, and lively Effi becomes increasingly isolated, bored and anxious in her stifling surroundings. A half-hearted affair with Major Crampas - a
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Consider the Consequences
The course of true love never did run smooth, but now you have only yourself to blame. No more throwing books across the room in frustration at the naive, hasty or downright dumb decisions made by the protagonist - this time you're in charge! Will you choose to play as Helen - young, beautiful, excited about exploring the big, wide world - or one of the two men who love her? There is the irresisti
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Two Gentlemen and a Lady
Dogs may be man's best friend, but every friendship is different. Prepare to meet Nicholas, a gregarious Airedale whose arrival in a moneyed Long Island home unleashes complete and total chaos throughout the neighbourhood. Verdun Belle, the lady of the title, is a silky-eared spaniel whose loyalty - and litter of puppies - rallies an entire American regiment fighting on the Western Front during th
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One True Word
Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension, Julia snaps and abandons her husband Gio on an uninhabited island in a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter. When she returns the next morning, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on Julia. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in. Is Gi
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Letters from Klara
The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the first time. In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfiting encounters, unlooked for connections and moments of isolation that span generations and dec
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.
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Company
A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut about the life and lore of one Black American family, told in thirteen distinct snapshots of their family gatherings The children of the four Collins sisters - Cassandra, Lela, Suzette and Felice - have a complicated inheritance. It includes unbreakable rules for navigating society, contested stories about their grandparents' early lives, capacious musica
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To Cage a Wild Bird
The dystopian fantasy romance that everyone's been waiting for!
'I haven't been this excited about a book since THE HUNGER GAMES'
'Dystopia is SO BACK!'
'This is going to be my new obsession'
'I need it in my hands like yesterday'
'This is not a drill! I need it so badly'
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A deadly prison. A forbidde
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Kick the Latch
About one womans fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries is lightning in a bottle.
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In
It's summer, 1984, in blue-collar Swaffham, Massachusetts.
Mel is thirteen, drinking a Slush Puppie at the drugstore, when she hears a voice, 'deep and movie-star dramatic, like Lauren Bacall': Sylvia.
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Rhine Journey
It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a sparse, unfulfilled life. But beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths hidden murmurings.
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Vista Chinesa
From one of Brazil's rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true events.
It is 2014. There is euphoria in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. The World Cup is about to take place and the Olympics are in sight. It is a time of hope and frenzied construction.
Julia is a partner with an architectural firm working on the future Olymp
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The Knowing
Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.
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Seventy Times Seven
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime - and its extraordinary aftermath.
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The Four Spent the Day Together
An unforgettable new novel from the author of the modern classic I Love Dick - a witty, probing journey into a fractured America, culminating in the investigation of a teenage murder.
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, rundown to
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Reading List
*A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction, discover this year's most uplifting and heart-warming debut* 'Absolutely gorgeous' RUTH WARE'The most heartfelt read of the summer' SHONDALAND'A joyful, uplifting read!' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A captivating debut' HEIDI SWAIN
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Where Two Worlds Meet
From internationally renowned medium, spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gordon Smith comes a captivating tale about finding your way through death, grief and loss.
'Nothing that lives can truly die,' said the stag, 'but we must all experience a winter in our lives, otherwise we haven’t truly lived.'
Following the tragic death of his sister, 10-year-old Dill's life changes forever. In
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