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Cultural Highlights

Whether you’re after the book behind a recent film you loved, the latest award-winning novel, or the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, here you’ll find the titles that are on everyone’s lips. Stay fully up to date on cultural highlights including Book Awards, literary festivals, books accompanying current major art exhibitions and the latest stage adaptions, recently reviewed books, and more. Explore here to discover what’s in vogue.

This Week's Most Talked About Books

Endgame
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Endgame
Omid Scobie
£22.00   £17.99
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Good for a Girl
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Good for a Girl
Lauren Fleshman
£20.00
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks
£22.00   £17.99
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Floating Hotel
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Floating Hotel
Grace Curtis
£20.00
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GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
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GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
Mat Baynton
£20.00   £16.99
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Here Comes Everybody
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Here Comes Everybody
James Fearnley
£10.99
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Falling Animals
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Falling Animals
Sheila Armstrong
£14.99
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
£9.99
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Eileen
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Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
£9.99
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Real Tigers
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Real Tigers
Mick Herron
£9.99
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Brutto
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Brutto
Russell Norman
£32.00   £28.99
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How Not to Age
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How Not to Age
Michael Greger
£22.00   £18.99
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Will
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Will
Will Smith
£10.99   £8.99
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The Autistic Brain
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The Autistic Brain
Temple Grandin
£14.99
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Planet Earth III
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Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon
£30.00   £22.99
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Easy Wins
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Easy Wins
Anna Jones
£28.00
Hardback
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Recent Television Adaptations

Eileen
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Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
£9.99
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Real Tigers
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Real Tigers
Mick Herron
£9.99
Paperback
Doctor Who: Whotopia
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Doctor Who: Whotopia
Jonathan Morris
£35.00   £29.99
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The Couple Next Door
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The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
£9.99
Paperback
Invincible Compendium Volume 1
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Invincible Compendium Volume 1
Robert Kirkman
£58.99
Paperback
The Sympathizer
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
£9.99
Paperback
GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
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GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
Mat Baynton
£20.00   £16.99
Hardback
Planet Earth III
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Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon
£30.00   £22.99
Hardback
Bad Luck And Trouble
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Bad Luck And Trouble
Lee Child
£9.99
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All the Light We Cannot See
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
£9.99
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Interview With The Vampire
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Interview With The Vampire
Anne Rice
£9.99
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Life on Our Planet
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Life on Our Planet
Dr. Tom Fletcher
£30.00   £22.99
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The Burning Girls
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The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor
£9.99
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Florios of Sicily, The
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Florios of Sicily, The
Stefania Auci
£10.99
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The Pigeon Tunnel
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The Pigeon Tunnel
John le Carré
£9.99
Paperback
Loki: Agent Of Asgard Omnibus Vol. 1
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Loki: Agent Of Asgard Omnibus Vol. 1
Al Ewing
£17.99
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The Traitors Board Game
The Traitors Board Game
Vivid Imaginations
£26.99
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10+ in stock
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Test your skills of duplicity and emotional intelligence to the max with this seriously addictive board game version of the smash hit reality show, where faithfuls must hunt out the traitors in their midst.

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Recent Film Adaptations

Napoleon
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Napoleon
David Chanteranne
£25.00
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
£9.99   £7.49
Paperback
Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift
Terry Newman
£22.00
Hardback
Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
£12.99
Paperback
Kensuke's Kingdom
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Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo
£7.99
Paperback
Starve Acre
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley
£9.99
Paperback
Hallowe'en Party
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Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie
£9.99   £8.49
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American Prometheus
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American Prometheus
Kai Bird
£12.99   £10.99
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Barbie Official Annual 2024
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Barbie Official Annual 2024
Little Brother Books
£9.99
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The Last Thing He Wanted
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The Last Thing He Wanted
Joan Didion
£9.99
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Someone Like You
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Someone Like You
Roald Dahl
£9.99
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Meg 2: The Trench
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Meg 2: The Trench
Steve Alten
£9.99
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TV & Film Adaptations for 2023 & Beyond

Wonka
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Wonka
Roald Dahl
£7.99   £6.49
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Dune Messiah
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Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
£22.00
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
Rick Riordan
£16.99   £12.99
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Argylle
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Argylle
Elly Conway
£18.99
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Leave the World Behind
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Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
£9.99
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Murder Is Easy
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Murder Is Easy
Agatha Christie
£9.99
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Poor Things
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Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
£9.99
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One Life
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One Life
Barbara Winton
£10.99
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One Day
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One Day
David Nicholls
£9.99
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The Doll Factory
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The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal
£9.99   £8.99
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
£9.99
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The End We Start From
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The End We Start From
Megan Hunter
£9.99
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Enzo Ferrari
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Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari Brock Yates
£12.99
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Strangers
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Strangers
Taichi Yamada
£7.99
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Scrublands
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Scrublands
Chris Hammer
£10.99
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Amazing Spider-man: Kraven's Last Hunt
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Amazing Spider-man: Kraven's Last Hunt
JM DeMatteis
£16.99
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'Salem's Lot
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'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
£10.99
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The Three-Body Problem
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
£9.99
Paperback

Between the Covers

Falling Animals
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Falling Animals
Sheila Armstrong
£14.99
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
£9.99
Paperback
Any Human Heart
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Any Human Heart
William Boyd
£9.99
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Devil's Breath
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Devil's Breath
Jill Johnson
£14.99
Hardback
Remember, Mr Sharma
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Remember, Mr Sharma
A. P. Firdaus
£18.99
Hardback
The Light of Day
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The Light of Day
Graham Swift
£9.99
Paperback
The Square of Sevens
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The Square of Sevens
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
£18.99   £16.99
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
£9.99
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The Seventh Son
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The Seventh Son
Sebastian Faulks
£22.00
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The God of Small Things
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
£9.99
Paperback
The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
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The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
Eleni Kyriacou
£14.99
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
Anne Tyler
£9.99
Paperback
The Waterstones Podcast - Judi Dench (with Brendan O'Hea)

The Waterstones Podcast - Judi Dench (with Brendan O'Hea)

Connecting to Shakespeare with a legend of British stage and screen.

The Waterstones Podcast - Patrick Stewart

The Waterstones Podcast - Patrick Stewart

Discovering the humble beginnings of an acting great.

The Waterstones Podcast - Madhur Jaffrey

The Waterstones Podcast - Madhur Jaffrey

Looking back on a fascinating life with the woman who changed the culinary landscape of the UK.

The Waterstones Podcast - David Mitchell

The Waterstones Podcast - David Mitchell

A whistle-stop tour of royal history from the Dark Ages to Henry VIII.

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Everyone's Tik-Talking About

Iron Flame
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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
£22.00   £18.99
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
£9.99   £8.49
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Lessons in Chemistry
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
£9.99   £7.99
Paperback
Fourth Wing
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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
£20.00   £17.99
Hardback
The Pumpkin Spice Café
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The Pumpkin Spice Café
Laurie Gilmore
£9.99   £8.49
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Babel
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Babel
R.F. Kuang
£9.99   £8.49
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A Curse For True Love
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A Curse For True Love
Stephanie Garber
£18.99   £16.99
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Icebreaker
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Icebreaker
Hannah Grace
£8.99   £7.49
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Wildfire
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Wildfire
Hannah Grace
£9.99   £8.49
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If He Had Been with Me
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If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin
£8.99   £7.49
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Divine Rivals
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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
£14.99   £12.99
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
£8.99   £6.99
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors
£9.99   £8.49
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A Little Life
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
£10.99
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The Fragile Threads of Power
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The Fragile Threads of Power
V. E. Schwab
£18.99
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
£8.99
Paperback

Dark Academia Books

Babel
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Babel
R.F. Kuang
£9.99   £8.49
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The Secret History
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
£9.99
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If We Were Villains
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If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
£8.99
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Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
£9.99
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Bunny
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Bunny
Mona Awad
£9.99
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
£9.99   £8.49
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The Atlas Six
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The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
£9.99
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A Study in Drowning
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A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid
£16.99   £14.99
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The Goldfinch
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
£10.99
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Ninth House
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
£8.99
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A Deadly Education
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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
£9.99
Paperback
Vicious
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Vicious
V. E. Schwab
£9.99
Paperback
Our Share of Night
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Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
£9.99   £8.49
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The Starless Sea
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The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
£9.99
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A Discovery of Witches
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
£8.99
Paperback
These Violent Delights
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These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong
£9.99
Paperback
If We Were Villains
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If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
£18.99
Hardback
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Emma Törzs
£16.99   £14.99
Hardback
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Recently Reviewed

Endgame
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Endgame
Omid Scobie
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This Book May Save Your Life
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This Book May Save Your Life
Dr Karan Rajan
£18.99
Hardback
Watford Forever
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Watford Forever
John Preston
£22.00   £17.99
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The Rest is History
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The Rest is History
Goalhanger Podcasts
£18.99   £14.99
Hardback
The Savage Storm
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The Savage Storm
James Holland
£25.00   £19.99
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The Iliad
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The Iliad
Homer
£30.00
Hardback
Pub Kitchen
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Pub Kitchen
Tom Kerridge
£27.00   £22.99
Hardback
Karma
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Karma
Boy George
£22.00   £16.99
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
£30.00
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Mary
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Mary
Anne Eekhout
£18.99
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The Secret of Cooking
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The Secret of Cooking
Bee Wilson
£28.00   £22.99
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My Name is Barbra
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My Name is Barbra
Barbra Streisand
£35.00   £27.99
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The Core of an Onion
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The Core of an Onion
Mark Kurlansky
£20.00   £16.99
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The Plot
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The Plot
Nadine Dorries
£25.00   £19.99
Hardback
Different Aspects
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Different Aspects
Michael Ball
£25.00   £21.99
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With You Every Step
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With You Every Step
Rob Burrow
£10.00
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Joe Wilkinson
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Joe Wilkinson
Joe Wilkinson
£18.99   £14.99
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How They Broke Britain
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How They Broke Britain
James O'Brien
£20.00   £16.99
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Reading for the Theatre: Current Stage Highlights

A Little Life
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
£12.99
Paperback
The Witches
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The Witches
Roald Dahl
£7.99
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Dario Fo
£10.99
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2:22 – A Ghost Story
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2:22 – A Ghost Story
Danny Robins
£10.99
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Frank and Percy
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Frank and Percy
Mr Ben Weatherill
£10.99
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The Mousetrap
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The Mousetrap
Agatha Christie
£10.99
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Hamnet
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Hamnet
Dead Centre
£9.99
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The Crucible
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
£8.99
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The Pillowman
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The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh
£10.99
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
£10.99
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The House with Chicken Legs
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The House with Chicken Legs
Sophie Anderson
£7.99
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The Crown Jewels
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The Crown Jewels
Simon Nye
£10.99
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Mlima's Tale
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Mlima's Tale
Lynn Nottage
£10.99
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Octopolis
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Octopolis
Marek Horn
£10.99
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The Invincibles
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The Invincibles
Amanda Whittington
£10.99
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Is My Microphone On?
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Is My Microphone On?
Jordan Tannahill
£10.99
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Reading for the Galleries: Art Exhibition Highlights

Wall and Piece
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Wall and Piece
Banksy
£16.99
Paperback
I Paint What I Want to See
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I Paint What I Want to See
Philip Guston
£9.99
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Berthe Morisot
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Berthe Morisot
Dulwich Picture Gallery
£29.00
Hardback
A World in Common
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A World in Common
Osei Bonsu
£32.00
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Lisa Mintz Messinger
£14.99
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Marina Abramovic
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Marina Abramovic
Ossian Ward
£14.99
Paperback
Action / Gesture / Paint
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Action / Gesture / Paint
Laura Smith
£40.00
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Donatello
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Donatello
Peta Motture
£45.00
Hardback
After Impressionism
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After Impressionism
MaryAnne Stevens
£40.00
Hardback
Yayoi Kusama
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Yayoi Kusama
Frances Morris
£25.00
Paperback
Paula Rego
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Paula Rego
Elena Crippa
£30.00
Paperback
Sonia Boyce
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Sonia Boyce
Emma Ridgway
£25.00
Hardback
Isaac Julien
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Isaac Julien
Isabella Maidment
£30.00
Paperback
Alice Neel
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Alice Neel
Eleanor Nairne
£24.99
Hardback
David Hockney. My Window
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David Hockney. My Window
David Hockney
£100.00
Hardback
Spain and the Hispanic World
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Spain and the Hispanic World
Patrick Lenaghan
£20.00
Paperback
Hallyu!
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Hallyu!
Rosalie Kim
£30.00
Hardback
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