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Paris, August 23rd, 1572.What do you do when your wife disappearsIn the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European his...

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Introducing... Odeline Milk, a strange young lady from a sleepy, buttoned-down market town. A young lady with an obsess...

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The job of the skin is to keep things in…On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, ne...

Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven…So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven ...

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All the qualities that readers praised in The London Train are present in Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley’s brilliant new nove...

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Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experim...

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‘You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...’ Julian Barnes's new bo...

Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth – and most ambitious collection to date – takes its name from the ancient trade in powder...

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In Montague Terrace, nothing is quite what is seems. Within its boundaries live an array of strange and extraordinary re...

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Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The sla...

It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, In Doctor No’s Garden. Now, ...

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After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy ...

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Poor Eustace is not very well. Convalescing in bed, his world is confined to the four walls of his grand and gloomy room...

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After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheel...

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It is 1792 and a group of English gentlemen are recruiting settlers for a new world. Anti-slavers, they foresee the shin...

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Sixteen-year-old Grace may be from a small coastal village but she’s not staying there. She has huge dreams, and knows f...

From when he was twelve years old Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became...

Peterson, a moderately successful artist, is finally given a chance to shine at the Beerpoele biennial festival. However...

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In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by dri...

The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat ca...