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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

Unleashed
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Unleashed
Boris Johnson
£30.00
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Simply Jamie
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Simply Jamie
Jamie Oliver
£30.00   £15.00
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Dream Count
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Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£20.00
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Sizzle & Drizzle
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Sizzle & Drizzle
Nancy Birtwhistle
£16.99   £13.99
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RecipeTin Eats: Tonight
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RecipeTin Eats: Tonight
Nagi Maehashi
£26.00   £21.99
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Joan
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Joan
Joan Hannington
£10.99
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Wonderful Words That Tell a Tale
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Wonderful Words That Tell a Tale
Tom Read Wilson
£14.99   £12.99
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Paddington in Peru: The Jungle Quest
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Paddington in Peru: The Jungle Quest
Lauren Holowaty
£20.00   £16.99
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Healthy Air Fryer Feasts
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Healthy Air Fryer Feasts
Christina Kynigos
£20.00   £16.99
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Hardest Geezer
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Hardest Geezer
Russ Cook
£22.00
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Cursebound
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Cursebound
Saara El-Arifi
£18.99
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Summer in the City
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Summer in the City
Alex Aster
£16.99
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Over the Rainbow
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Over the Rainbow
Alex James
£18.99
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Open When…
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Open When…
Julie Smith
£20.00
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Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
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Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
Jeremy Clarkson
£22.00   £11.00
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The Message
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
£18.99
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Quicksilver
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Quicksilver
Callie Hart
£20.00
Hardback
Heartstopper Volume 4
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Heartstopper Volume 4
Alice Oseman
£12.99   £10.99
Paperback
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Recent Television Adaptations

Heartstopper Volume 4
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Heartstopper Volume 4
Alice Oseman
£12.99   £10.99
Paperback
Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition)
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Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition)
Junji Ito
£28.00
Hardback
Joan
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Joan
Joan Hannington
£10.99
Paperback
Agatha Harkness: The Saga of The Salem Witch
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Agatha Harkness: The Saga of The Salem Witch
Stan Lee
£26.99
Paperback
The Traitors Board Game
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The Traitors Board Game
Vivid Imaginations
£26.99
Game
The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
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The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
ROBERT KIRKMAN
£53.99
Paperback
The Penguin Vol. 1
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The Penguin Vol. 1
Tom King
£16.99
Paperback
Spook Street
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Spook Street
Mick Herron
£9.99
Paperback
The Great British Bake Off: Comfort Bakes
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The Great British Bake Off: Comfort Bakes
The The Bake Off Team
£25.00   £20.99
Hardback
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
Christian Guiltenane
£14.99
Hardback
Seriously...I'm Kidding
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Seriously...I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres
£7.99
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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Bob Mortimer
£9.99
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Uglies
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Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
£8.99
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Source Code
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Source Code
Bill Gates
£25.00
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SAS: Who Dares Wins
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SAS: Who Dares Wins
Ant Middleton
£12.99
Paperback

Recent Film Adaptations

The Wild Robot
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The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
£7.99   £6.49
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The Outrun
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The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
£10.99
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The Lives of Lee Miller
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The Lives of Lee Miller
Antony Penrose
£12.99
Paperback
Beetlejuice Tarot Deck & Guide
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Beetlejuice Tarot Deck & Guide
Casey Gilly
£27.99
Cards
Curtain Call
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Curtain Call
Anthony Quinn
£10.99
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If It Bleeds
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If It Bleeds
Stephen King
£10.99
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Prima Facie
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Prima Facie
Suzie Miller
£16.99
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Starve Acre
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley
£9.99
Paperback
It Ends With Us
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It Ends With Us
COLLEEN HOOVER
£9.99   £7.99
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Wolverine: Origins - Deadpool
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Wolverine: Origins - Deadpool
Daniel Way
£17.99
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Alien
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Alien
Alan Dean Foster
£8.99
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The Crow
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The Crow
Bridget Baiss
£19.99
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The Worlds of Borderlands
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The Worlds of Borderlands
Rick Barba
£26.99
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Bluey: Road Trip
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Bluey: Road Trip
Bluey
£6.99   £5.49
Board book
Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
CROCKETT JOHNSON
£8.99
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Bit Of A Blur
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Bit Of A Blur
Alex James
£11.99
Paperback
Disney Pixar Inside Out 2 Ultimate Sticker Book
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Disney Pixar Inside Out 2 Ultimate Sticker Book
DK
£4.99
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TV & Film Adaptations for 2024 & Beyond

Paddington in Peru: The Jungle Quest
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Paddington in Peru: The Jungle Quest
Lauren Holowaty
£20.00   £16.99
Hardback
'Salem's Lot
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'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
£12.99
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Small Things Like These
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
£9.99   £7.49
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Towards Zero
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Towards Zero
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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The Electric State
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The Electric State
Simon Stålenhag
£30.00
Hardback
Mickey7
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Mickey7
Edward Ashton
£9.99
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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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Wicked
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Wicked
Gregory Maguire
£10.99
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Midnight Sun
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Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer
£10.99
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The World of Minecraft
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The World of Minecraft
Mojang AB
£35.00
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Rivals
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Rivals
Jilly Cooper
£9.99
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Sisterhood of Dune
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Sisterhood of Dune
Kevin J. Anderson
£16.99
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin
£9.99
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Conclave
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Conclave
Robert Harris
£9.99
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Nightbitch
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Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
£9.99
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How to Kill Your Family
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How to Kill Your Family
Bella Mackie
£9.99
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Recently Reviewed

Unleashed
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Unleashed
Boris Johnson
£30.00
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The Peepshow
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The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
£22.00   £18.99
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
£25.00
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The Use of Photography
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The Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux
£12.99
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The Power and the Glory
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The Power and the Glory
Adrian Tinniswood
£25.00   £21.99
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On Freedom
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On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
£25.00   £20.99
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Lower than the Angels
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Lower than the Angels
Diarmaid MacCulloch
£35.00   £30.99
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Why Fish Don't Exist
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Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller
£16.99
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Kingmaker
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Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
£25.00   £20.99
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Our Evenings
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Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
£22.00
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Midnight and Blue
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Midnight and Blue
Ian Rankin
£25.00
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The American No
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The American No
Rupert Everett
£20.00
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The Map of Bones
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The Map of Bones
Kate Mosse
£22.00
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Odyssey
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Odyssey
Stephen Fry
£25.00
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The Mighty Red
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The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich
£20.00
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The Third Realm
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The Third Realm
Karl Ove Knausgaard
£25.00   £21.99
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
Wendy Cope
£20.00
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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Lisa Marie Presley
£25.00   £19.99
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Everyone's Tik-Talking About

A Pirate's Life for Tea
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A Pirate's Life for Tea
Rebecca Thorne
£22.00
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Intermezzo
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
£20.00   £16.99
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Best Hex Ever
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Best Hex Ever
Nadia El-Fassi
£16.99
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Graveyard Shift
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Graveyard Shift
M. L. Rio
£14.99
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The Coven
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The Coven
Harper L. Woods
£16.99
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Starling House
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Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
£9.99   £7.99
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The Wedding Witch
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The Wedding Witch
Erin Sterling
£10.99   £9.49
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Lore Olympus: Volume Seven
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Lore Olympus: Volume Seven
Rachel Smythe
£24.00
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The Glass Girl
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The Glass Girl
Kathleen Glasgow
£8.99   £7.49
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The Dagger and the Flame
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The Dagger and the Flame
Catherine Doyle
£16.99
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Rewitched
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Rewitched
Lucy Jane Wood
£16.99   £14.99
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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
Laurie Gilmore
£9.99   £8.49
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
MARIANA ENRIQUEZ
£14.99
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This Winter
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This Winter
Alice Oseman
£8.99   £7.49
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Nothing Like the Movies
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Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter
£8.99   £7.49
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All The Devils
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All The Devils
Catelyn Wilson
£16.99   £14.99
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Immortal Dark
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Immortal Dark
Tigest Girma
£18.99   £16.99
Hardback

Dark Academia Books

The Secret History
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
£9.99
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Babel
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Babel
R.F. Kuang
£9.99   £8.49
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Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
£9.99
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If We Were Villains
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If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
£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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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett
£9.99   £7.99
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Bunny
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Bunny
Mona Awad
£9.99
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Blood Over Bright Haven
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Blood Over Bright Haven
M. L. Wang
£18.99
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The Cloisters
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The Cloisters
Katy Hays
£9.99   £8.49
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The Examiner
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The Examiner
Janice Hallett
£18.99
Hardback
The Goldfinch
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
£12.99
Paperback
The Atlas Six
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The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
£9.99
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A Dark and Drowning Tide
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A Dark and Drowning Tide
Allison Saft
£19.99   £16.99
Hardback
Belladonna
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Belladonna
Adalyn Grace
£9.99
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A Discovery of Witches
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
£9.99
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Ninth House
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
£9.99
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Immortal Dark
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Immortal Dark
Tigest Girma
£18.99   £16.99
Hardback
A Study in Drowning
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A Study in Drowning
AVA REID
£9.99   £8.49
Paperback
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Reading for the Theatre: Current Stage Highlights

Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
£8.99
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Bluets
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Bluets
Maggie Nelson
£12.99
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Mnemonic
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Mnemonic
Complicité
£11.99
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Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
£9.99
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Giant
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Giant
Mark Rosenblatt
£10.99
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
£9.99
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The Art of Spirited Away
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The Art of Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki
£28.00
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Complete Fawlty Towers
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Complete Fawlty Towers
Cleese John & Booth Connie
£14.99
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
£10.99
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The Motive and the Cue
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The Motive and the Cue
Jack Thorne
£10.99
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The Time Machine: A Comedy
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The Time Machine: A Comedy
Steven Canny
£10.99
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Dreaming and Drowning
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Dreaming and Drowning
Kwame Owusu
£10.99
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Infinite Life
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Infinite Life
Annie Baker
£10.99
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The Lonely Londoners
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The Lonely Londoners
Sam Selvon
£9.99
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The Little Big Things
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The Little Big Things
Henry Fraser
£9.99
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A Song for Ella Grey
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A Song for Ella Grey
David Almond
£7.99
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Starter For Ten
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Starter For Ten
David Nicholls
£9.99
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Reading for the Galleries: Art Exhibition Highlights

Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono
Juliet Bingham
£40.00
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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now
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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now
Dorothy Price
£25.00
Hardback
Frank Auerbach
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Frank Auerbach
Barnaby Wright
£30.00
Hardback
Michelangelo: the last decades
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Michelangelo: the last decades
Sarah Vowles
£35.00
Hardback
Sargent and Fashion
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Sargent and Fashion
Erica E. Hirshler
£40.00
Hardback
Van Gogh
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Van Gogh
Cornelia Homburg
£40.00
Hardback
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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Frans Hals
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Frans Hals
Bart Cornelis
£35.00
Paperback
Women in Revolt!
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Women in Revolt!
Linsey Young
£35.00
Paperback
Berthe Morisot
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Berthe Morisot
Dulwich Picture Gallery
£29.00
Hardback
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
Dominique Heyse-Moore
£40.00
Hardback
Rubens & Women
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Rubens & Women
Ben van Beneden
£28.00
Paperback
Love Life
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Love Life
David Hockney
£25.00
Hardback
Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
Ann Coxon
£32.00
Paperback
Claudette Johnson
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Claudette Johnson
Dorothy Price
£30.00
Hardback
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The Waterstones Podcast - Alan Hollinghurst

The Waterstones Podcast - Alan Hollinghurst

Race, class and sexuality over the course of seven decades.

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What the Rillington Place murder trial tells us about 1950s Britain.

The Waterstones Podcast - Nigel Slater

The Waterstones Podcast - Nigel Slater

Small moments of joy from a life filled with food, travel, and home-making.

The Waterstones Podcast - Joe Lycett

The Waterstones Podcast - Joe Lycett

Comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, AND world-renowned portraitist!