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What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the ...

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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events...

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At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl. Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 19...

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 Winner of 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 Winner of 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards 2021 A BBC 'Big Jubilee Read' 'A heartbreaking novel' - The Times 'An amazingly intimate, compass...

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The million copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fict...

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From the bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain. 'A series of highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable essays . . . Fascinating and informative, it is popular science at its best' - Observer '...

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A cult classic, adapted into a film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line ...

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'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'Compact and supple, it's a strikingly intelligent feat.' - The New York Times Book Review From international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All The Lovers In The Night...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Now on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 20...

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'One of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . Although dark in premise, these parables - threaded through with references to ancient mythology and folklore - are filled with hope and humanism: a balm for anxious souls.' - Daily Telegr...

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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . From the author ...

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Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the ritual...

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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World , every seat is a good one." -Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post " The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a ...

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'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Pri...

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'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' GUARDIAN With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight rem...

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bull...

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'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by F...

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Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures. The New York Times Bes...

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The sequel to Jessie Burton's million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist 'Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it' - Marian Keyes 'A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' - Elizabeth Day In th...

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A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for co...

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One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and fo...

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Now a major new BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Whishaw The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive new preface by the author Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisi...

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When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another wo...

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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopat...

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Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely lo...

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The number one Sunday Times bestseller 'Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal...

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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Now an HBO Max original TV series What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whil...

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illumi...

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The shocking true story behind The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews and Stephen Fry 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' - Bill Gates Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Bu...

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The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2020 For readers of Circe and The Handmaid's Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and about a love that could p...

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