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Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offe..
A PhD student uncovers dark secrets among her academic associates in this 'richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable' (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set between Scotland, Italy, and France. For..
July, 1945. The war in Europe is finallyover. But Auguste Duchene, who survived occupied Paris at great personal cost,cannot escape his past. He finds himself helping the Allies to pursue a Gestapowar..
'Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened closely enough, you could hear all the people who'd once been there.'
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A powerful, devastating novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields o..
"This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy," writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introductio..
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).
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"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her int..
Ars ne Lupin is a gentleman and a thief, a world-famous master of disguise and a planner of elaborate heists. His exploits are regularly splashed across newspaper pages, entertaining all of France as ..
The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series
The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If yo..
On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield.
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Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . .
In this darkly funny story with a big heart, meet the four women who have two things in common- 1) they were all pushed too far in their ..
It begins with a game.
It ends with betrayal.
From the Number 1 bestselling author of THE BINDING
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Money-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them all. He's Silicon Valley's most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious ways of Fo..
A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe
VOLUME ONE OF TWO
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A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe
VOLUME TWO OF TWO
A gen..
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip Marlowe
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great n..
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his w..
LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call-out: a body has beenfound in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive in Hollywood,and it looks like a routine drug overdose. But one new puncturewound amid the sc..
A ghostly tale of magic and wickedness, set on the Yorkshire moors in the 1800s
When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she's put..
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction
A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No tri..
In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle a..
From the highly acclaimed author of Darktown comes the most visionary crime novel since Minority Report.
'Terrific entertainment' --- Stephen King on Darktown
In a world where a ..
She only knows three things for certain:
1. She has a splitting headache.
2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her to run.
3. People keep trying..
The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspense..
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.
From familiar fai..
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
'This complex, engaging novel takes an unusual approach to the classic trope of aliens in our midst, with a warmth and intelligence reminis..
Million-copy bestseller David Walliams' funniest book yet - a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history
Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, ..
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the isla..
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the isla..
'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special' Sarah J. Maas on The Bone Shard Daughter
THE BATTLE IS OVER. NOW THE WAR BEGINS.
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Early summer brings warm weather to the Body Farm in East Tennessee, but Dr Bill Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for. A former student who's now an agent with the Florida Departm..
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great mode..
THE NO. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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'A vampire-themed Handmaid's Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary' Guardian
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These books are like weapons. And possession is power. . . With a perfect combination of dark magical books, unforgettable characters, and a storyline that grabs the reader and simply doesn't let go, ..
This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life as I knew it. He stole the world...
Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that..
'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times
'Sly, profound ... Electrifying' Observer
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A propulsive, seduct..
Collecting Martha Wells' Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer for the first time in one place, in a new and revised edition!
From the author of Witch King and the Murderbot Diaries:
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Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the ..
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior o..
The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or successful.For nearly three deca..
FROM PULITZER-PRIZE FINALIST KELLY LINK
Laura, Daniel and Mo disappeared without trace a year ago. They have long been presumed dead.
Which they were.
But now they are not.
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Samuel Abba is a young angel who has just been expelled from Paradise. As a result of a crafty trick, Samuel has retained his memory of his previous life. The humans around him plead for details of th..
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literar..
An array of original stories from around the world bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction: witches.
Witches! Whether you know them from Shakespeare or from WIC..
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.
Evar a..
All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written.
The g..
The boy at the centre of Tim Tipene's striking new story doesn't like reading, until one day in the school library he picks up The Book that Wouldn't Read.
Suddenly the book takes on a life of its o..
From the author of Bridge of Clay.
'Brilliant and hugely ambitious...the kind of book that can be life-changing' New York Times
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.
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What is lost when knowledge is withheld?
In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and ..