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An entertaining, warm and quirky novel of families, secrets and the truth of love - 'A powerful and moving novel' Independent on Sunday

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A collection of new short stories by the award-winning science fiction writer of One More for the Road and I Sing the Body Electric includes tales of twentieth-century rural life, Halloween terrors, and flights of fancy on Martian shores.

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When Jillian Hart volunteers to help a local animal shelter relocate a colony of feral cats living in an abandoned textile mill, she never expects to find a woman living there, too. Jeannie went missing from Mercy, South Carolina, a decade ago, after her own daughter's disappearance. After Jeannie is hurt in an accident, a body is found concealed in the mill. Original.

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Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover In s, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no interest in the deepening independence crisis, nor in the charismatic leader, Patrice Lumumba. He has other business: this is his last chance to make love work for him.

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To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, spiritual master, beloved guru. But to Hriday, his nephew and long-time caretaker, he is just Uncle - maddening, bewildering Uncle, prone to entering trances at the most inconvenient of times, who must be vigilantly safeguarded not only against jealous enemies but also against the cauliflower.

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Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood until it decrees that it is no longer interested in his humble wares.

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A sweeping, multi-generational saga for fans of Downton Abbey, set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall as the roaring twenties change the familys fortunes forever.

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This collection of Hawthorne's most powerful and penetrating short stories includes the classics "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil." Revised reissue.

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The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti

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A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost.

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The modern Scottish classic; a heartbreaking, tragic portrait of an unexpected relationship. Introduced by Andrew Marr.

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A wartime love story richly told

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In 'The Character of Rain', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state.

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After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. Soon their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance.

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Take a trip through New York City at Christmas with this gorgeous novel from Melissa Hill, the international number one bestselling author who keeps you guessing to the very end.

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1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years... 1906: For two years banks across the western United States have been living in terror of the 'Butcher Bandit'.

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An investigation into culinary genius, freedom and identity.

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'First they get married, then they get buried' ... you can run from a family curse, but you can't hide forever.

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A Reese's Book Club Pick. Sibling rivalry, second chances, and just who has the best fried chicken in Kansas. A reality TV restaurant competition sends two families straight out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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Kicking off her first book in the new Highland Guard series, bestselling author McCarty delivers another sweeping Scottish romance. Original.

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Valles's book is one of the funniest books in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency.

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Narrated by a woman to her new-born, meandering between her enchanted present and her memories of a more difficult past, The Child is a modern exploration of the territory of motherhood.