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Storytelling is as old as time and, whether it’s an award-winning epic novel or a page-turning blockbuster, a great book can stay with you throughout your life. Here you will find the best books by everyone from Chinua Achebe to Stefan Zweig, by way of twentieth-century giants like Harper Lee and Graham Greene, and modern-day maestros such as Hilary Mantel and Bernardine Evaristo.

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Our Best Fiction Books

The Sentinel
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The Sentinel
Lee Child
£20.00   £16.99
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A Song for the Dark Times
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A Song for the Dark Times
Ian Rankin
£20.00   £10.00
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The Thursday Murder Club
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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
£14.99   £12.99
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Firewatching
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Firewatching
Russ Thomas
£8.99   £7.49
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
£8.99   £7.49
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Troy
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Troy
Stephen Fry
£20.00   £17.99
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The Guest List
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The Guest List
Lucy Foley
£8.99   £7.49
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Pine
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Pine
Francine Toon
£8.99   £7.49
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
£8.99   £7.49
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Starve Acre
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley
£8.99   £7.49
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When Shadows Fall
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When Shadows Fall
Alex Gray
£7.99
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A Single Thread
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A Single Thread
Tracy Chevalier
£8.99   £7.49
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Shuggie Bain
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
£14.99
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Westwind
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Westwind
Ian Rankin
£8.99   £6.99
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Those Who Are Loved
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Those Who Are Loved
Victoria Hislop
£8.99   £6.99
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
£8.99   £6.99
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Lockdown
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Lockdown
Peter May
£8.99   £6.99
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Find Them Dead
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Find Them Dead
Peter James
£8.99   £7.49
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New For 2020

Shuggie Bain
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
£14.99
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Leave the World Behind
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Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
£14.99
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Troy
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Troy
Stephen Fry
£20.00   £17.99
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The Betrayals
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The Betrayals
Bridget Collins
£14.99   £12.99
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Ghosts
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Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
£14.99   £12.99
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The Emperor's Exile
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The Emperor's Exile
Simon Scarrow
£20.00
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The Thursday Murder Club
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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
£14.99   £12.99
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The Midnight Library
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
£16.99   £14.99
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The Evening and the Morning
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The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett
£25.00   £12.50
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Hamnet
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
£20.00   £16.99
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
£17.99   £15.99
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Troubled Blood
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Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith
£20.00   £10.00
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V2
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V2
Robert Harris
£20.00   £14.99
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The Mirror & the Light
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The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
£25.00   £12.50
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The Silence
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The Silence
Don Delillo
£14.99   £12.99
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Piranesi
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
£14.99   £12.99
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The Vanishing Half
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
£14.99
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Exciting Times
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Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
£14.99   £12.99
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Signed & Special Editions

The Betrayals
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The Betrayals
Bridget Collins
£14.99
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Murder On Mustique
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Murder On Mustique
Anne Glenconner
£16.99
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Mr Wilder and Me
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Mr Wilder and Me
Jonathan Coe
£16.99
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The Book of Two Ways
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The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult
£16.99
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Home Stretch
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Home Stretch
Graham Norton
£20.00   £16.99
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That Old Country Music
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That Old Country Music
Kevin Barry
£14.99
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Betty
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Betty
Tiffany McDaniel
£14.99
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The Harpy
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The Harpy
Megan Hunter
£14.99
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Troy
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Troy
Stephen Fry
£20.00   £17.99
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Utopia Avenue
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Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
£20.00   £16.99
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Blue Ticket
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Blue Ticket
Sophie Mackintosh
£12.99
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The Evening and the Morning
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The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett
£25.00   £12.50
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Why Visit America
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Why Visit America
Matthew Baker
£14.99   £12.99
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Come Again
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Come Again
Robert Webb
£16.99   £13.99
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The Trouble With Peace
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The Trouble With Peace
Joe Abercrombie
£20.00   £16.99
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Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street
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Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street
Craig Revel Horwood
£14.99   £11.99
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One by One
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One by One
Ruth Ware
£12.99
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The Searcher
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The Searcher
Tana French
£14.99   £12.99
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2020's Best Paperbacks

The Testaments
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The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
£8.99   £7.49
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The Starless Sea
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The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
£8.99   £7.49
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The Memory Police
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
£8.99   £7.49
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The Shadow King
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The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
£9.99   £8.49
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Lot
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Lot
Bryan Washington
£8.99
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The Topeka School
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The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
£8.99   £7.49
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Death in Her Hands
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Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
£14.99   £12.99
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
Hiromi Kawakami
£8.99
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Breasts and Eggs
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
£14.99
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The Guest List
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The Guest List
Lucy Foley
£8.99   £7.49
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
£8.99   £7.49
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Agent Running in the Field
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Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré
£8.99   £6.99
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Your House Will Pay
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Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha
£8.99
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Dominicana
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Dominicana
Angie Cruz
£8.99   £7.49
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Love and Other Thought Experiments
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Love and Other Thought Experiments
Sophie Ward
£8.99   £7.49
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Ghost Fire
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Ghost Fire
Wilbur Smith
£8.99   £7.49
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The Sun Sister
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The Sun Sister
Lucinda Riley
£8.99   £6.99
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£14.99
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Death on the Nile
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Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£18.99
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The Wolf Hall Trilogy
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The Wolf Hall Trilogy
Hilary Mantel
£70.00
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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The Great Dune Trilogy
Frank Herbert
£35.00
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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£14.99
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
£20.00
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
£12.99
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The Remains of the Day
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
£12.99
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£14.99
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The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
£12.99
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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The Little Drummer Girl
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The Little Drummer Girl
John le Carré
£12.99   £5.99
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A Far Cry From Kensington
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A Far Cry From Kensington
Muriel Spark
£12.99
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£12.99
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The Hobbit
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The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
£14.99
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Black Narcissus
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Black Narcissus
Rumer Godden
£14.99
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Christmas Crackers

Our pick of the best festive books

A Christmas Memory
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A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote
£10.99
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Christmas is Murder
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Christmas is Murder
Val McDermid
£10.00
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Dickens at Christmas
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Dickens at Christmas
Charles Dickens
£15.00
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Christmas Days
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Christmas Days
Jeanette Winterson
£10.99
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A Literary Christmas
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A Literary Christmas
British Library
£12.99
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Christmas Stories
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Christmas Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£10.99
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The Christmas Mystery
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The Christmas Mystery
Jostein Gaarder
£8.99
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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
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Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
£8.99
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Village Christmas
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Village Christmas
Laurie Lee
£7.99
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Christmas at High Rising
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Christmas at High Rising
Angela Thirkell
£7.99
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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A Maigret Christmas
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A Maigret Christmas
Georges Simenon
£7.99
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The Night Before Christmas
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The Night Before Christmas
Nikolai Gogol
£9.99
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
£10.99
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Little But Lovely

Stocking fillers at a great price

Tiny Tales
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Tiny Tales
Alexander McCall Smith
£9.99
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Serpentine
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Serpentine
Philip Pullman
£7.99
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The Part-Time Job
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The Part-Time Job
P. D. James
£3.50
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Classic Cat Stories
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Classic Cat Stories
Various
£10.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
William Sieghart
£12.99
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Mr Salary
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Mr Salary
Sally Rooney
£3.50
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Classic Dog Stories
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Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley
£10.99
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Frost Fair
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Frost Fair
Carol Ann Duffy
£7.99
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Come Rain or Come Shine
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Come Rain or Come Shine
Kazuo Ishiguro
£3.50
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Little Grey Cells
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Little Grey Cells
Agatha Christie
£9.99
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Festive Spirits
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Festive Spirits
Kate Atkinson
£6.99
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Literary Lover's Box Set
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Literary Lover's Box Set
Running Press
£9.99
Hardback
Seriously Funny
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Seriously Funny
Terry Pratchett
£9.99
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The Signalman
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The Signalman
Simon Bradley
£2.99
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Christmas with Dull People
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Christmas with Dull People
Saki
£4.99
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Faeries, Elves and Goblins
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Faeries, Elves and Goblins
Rosalind Kerven
£9.99
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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
£9.99
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Clothbound Classics

Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£14.99
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
£14.99
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War And Peace
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War And Peace
Leo Tolstoy
£18.99
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Little Women
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
£14.99
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£14.99
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
£14.99
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Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£14.99
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The Jungle Books
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The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
£14.99
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
£14.99
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Les Miserables
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
£18.99
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
£18.99
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
£16.99
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The War of the Worlds
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
£14.99
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The Odyssey
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The Odyssey
Homer
£14.99
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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost
John Milton
£16.99
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Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
£18.99
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
£17.99
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic paperbacks

Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
£8.99
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Beloved
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
£9.99
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Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
£8.99
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Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
£8.99
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
£8.99
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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£8.99   £7.99
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Another Country
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Another Country
James Baldwin
£9.99
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Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
£8.99
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The Secret History
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
£8.99
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
£7.99   £6.99
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
£8.99
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Americanah
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£8.99   £7.49
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The Book Thief
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
£8.99
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Brighton Rock
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
£8.99
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The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
£8.99
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The Remains of the Day
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
£8.99
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Wolf Hall
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
£9.99   £7.99
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Contemporary Fiction from the Best Black Authors

There has never been a more essential time to discover these groundbreaking works.

The Girl with the Louding Voice
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Dare
£8.99   £7.49
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
£8.99   £7.49
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Lot
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Lot
Bryan Washington
£8.99
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That Reminds Me
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That Reminds Me
Derek Owusu
£12.99   £10.99
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Heaven, My Home
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Heaven, My Home
Attica Locke
£8.99   £7.49
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The Old Drift
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The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
£9.99
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Remembered
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Remembered
Yvonne Battle-Felton
£8.99
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Sun is Sky
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Sun is Sky
Jedah Mayberry
£8.99
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£9.99
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Silver Sparrow
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
£16.99   £13.99
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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
Okechukwu Nzelu
£16.99
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Queenie
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
£8.99   £6.99
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An American Marriage
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
£8.99   £7.49
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Red at the Bone
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Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
£14.99
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White Teeth
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
£8.99
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The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
£8.99
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Such a Fun Age
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
£12.99
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Homegoing
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
£8.99
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On the Horizon - Fiction to Pre-Order Now

The Death of Francis Bacon
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The Death of Francis Bacon
Max Porter
£6.99
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Becky Chambers
£16.99   £14.99
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Project Hail Mary
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
£14.99
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Klara and the Sun
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
£20.00   £16.99
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Daughters of Night
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Daughters of Night
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
£14.99
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The City of Tears
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The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
£20.00
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First Person Singular
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First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami
£16.99
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Transcendent Kingdom
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Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
£14.99
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Richard Flanagan
£16.99
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The Push
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The Push
Ashley Audrain
£12.99
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Alexandria
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Alexandria
Paul Kingsnorth
£16.99
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The Survivors
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The Survivors
Jane Harper
£12.99
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All That Glitters
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All That Glitters
Danielle Steel
£18.99
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Kill A Stranger
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Kill A Stranger
Simon Kernick
£14.99   £12.99
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A Bright Ray of Darkness
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A Bright Ray of Darkness
Ethan Hawke
£16.99
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The Mask Falling
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The Mask Falling
Samantha Shannon
£16.99   £14.99
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
Joel Dicker
£20.00   £17.99
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Here Comes the Miracle
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Here Comes the Miracle
Anna Beecher
£14.99
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The Waterstones Round Up: November & December's Best Books

The Waterstones Round Up: November & December's Best Books

With Christmas just around the corner, get the perfect gift inspiration with the finest books out in November and December.

The Waterstones Podcast - Ghosts

The Waterstones Podcast - Ghosts

Friendship, identity and the perils of online dating.

Abi Dare on the Questions That Sparked The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Dare on the Questions That Sparked The Girl with the Louding Voice

The author of The Girl with the Louding Voice, our Fiction Book of the Month for October, talks about the experiences that fuelled her novel.

Ruth Jones on her Top Rated Reads

Ruth Jones on her Top Rated Reads

Ruth Jones, author of the enchanting Us Three, reveals the books that she rates most highly.