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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma?s deceptively simple What I?d Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma...
2) Orbital
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our planet as you?ve never seen it before: in this spellbinding and uplifting novel six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents, and cycling through seasons, taking...
3) Kala
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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Language
English
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In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot centre. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace. Now it's fifteen years later: Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for...
4) The safekeep
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement. It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all...
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Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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From Sandie Jones, the author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house. HER HUSBAND: Alice knows that life could have been...
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Stranger. Liar. Killer? You Cant Trust the Bad Daughter . . . Robin Davis hasn't spoken to her family in six years. Not since it happened. Then they're attacked; left fighting for their lives. And Robin is back. All families have their secrets. And one of theirs may have put them all in terrible danger . . . You can always trust your family . . . Can't you? Praise for Joy Fielding 'Gripped me from the first to the very last page' Tess Gerritsen 'A...
8) Weirdo
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN, WRITER AND ACTOR SARA PASCOE 'Funny, sad, engaging, Pascoe nails everything that confronts women today.'Stylist 'A tragicomic masterpiece. . . it will stay with me for a long time.' DAISY BUCHANAN 'A tremendously exciting voice.' The Times "I USED TO THINK MY MUM COULD SEE ME THROUGH THE CAT" Deep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something...
9) Stella Maris
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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?One of the greatest American novels of this or any other time? - Guardian GOD. TRUTH. EXISTENCE. Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.
10) The passenger
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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?[McCarthy] writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read? - Telegraph A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY. The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
11) Snowdrops
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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'Snowdrops' is a chilling story of love and moral freefall - of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.
12) Apple Tree Yard
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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'Safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement, but you can never buy them back.' Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. It's the beginning of a...
13) I dare you
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Only One Returned Home.The Ten-Year-Old Told Police What She Saw: Village Loner Bill ?Creepy? Cawley Dragged Her Friend Into His Truck and Disappeared. No Body Was Found, but Her Testimony Sent Cawley to Prison for Murder. an Open and Shut Case, the Right Man Behind Bars. The Village Could Sleep Safe Once Again. Now?Anna Thought She Had Left Mapledon and Her Nightmares Behind but a Distraught Phone Call Brings Her Back to Face Her Past. 30 Years Ago,...
14) The night window
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Series
Jane Hawk volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
She will destroy her enemies once and for all? The explosive conclusion to the Jane Hawk saga, from No. 1 New York Times bestseller Dean Koontz. ?I?m afraid. I?m so afraid. Where are you, Mommy?' Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is living in a world of danger. Her battle to expose a global conspiracy risks her own life and that of her five-year-old son, whom she has sent into hiding.But more than just their lives are at stake: this is a war for the free...
15) Mostly hero
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Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Man Booker-winning novel 'Milkman', 'Mostly Hero' is the hilarious, hell-raising descendant of Quentin Tarantino and the Brothers...
16) Her last secret
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Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Jordan Radcliffe is found stabbed to death.Her boyfriend?s finger prints are on the knife and his clothes are covered in her blood.Case closed? Or is it?When Jake learns of his troubled daughter?s death, he is determined to find out what really happened on that fateful night. But Jake hasn?t seen Jordan for over three years and, with secrets of her own, there is a lot he doesn?t know about his only daughter.Jake?s ex-wife Jules is reluctant to let...
17) The big snow
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Elsewhere, an old woman searches desperately for a wedding dress in her dream of love. And in the very heart of the city, the purity of snow is tainted by the murder of a young woman, leaving one man in race against time - to find the murderer before the snow melts. This is the story of a time muffled and made claustrophobic by unprecedented snow falls. Suddenly shaken free from the normal patterns of their lives by the extremity of the weather, people...
18) Dead to her
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When Marcie met Jason Maddox, she couldn't believe her luck. Becoming Jason's second wife catapulted her into the elite world of high society. But underneath the polite, old money manners, she knows she'll always be an outsider, and her hard-won life hangs by a thread. Then Jason's widowed boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London. Young, beautiful, reckless - nobody can take their eyes off Keisha. Including Jason. Marcie refuses to be replaced...
19) The silent room
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Series
Matthew Ryan volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A security van sets off for Durham prison, a disgraced Special Branch officer in the back. It never arrives. On route it is hijacked by armed men, the prisoner sprung. Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting the audacious escape of his former boss, Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan is locked out of the investigation. With a manhunt underway, Ryan is warned to stay away. Keen to preserve his career and prove his innocence, he backs off....
20) Penance
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English
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Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them?It's been years since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time.That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza...
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