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Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Waterstones Book of the Month Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Waterstones Book of the Month

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

Summerwater
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Sarah Moss
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The Thursday Murder Club
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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
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The Midnight Library
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The Song of Achilles
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The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
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It Ends With Us
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It Ends With Us
Colleen Hoover
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One August Night
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One August Night
Victoria Hislop
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Hamnet
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
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The Castaways
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The Castaways
Lucy Clarke
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Betty
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Betty
Tiffany McDaniel
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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How to Kill Your Family
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How to Kill Your Family
Bella Mackie
£14.99   £12.99
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The Vanishing Half
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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Troy
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Troy
Stephen Fry
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V2
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V2
Robert Harris
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Small Pleasures
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Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
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Troubled Blood
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Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith
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The Marlow Murder Club
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The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood
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Our Best New Fiction Hardbacks

Klara and the Sun
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
£20.00   £16.99
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The Paper Palace
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The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
£14.99   £12.99
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Songbirds
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Songbirds
Christy Lefteri
£14.99
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A Passage North
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A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
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Cecily
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Cecily
Annie Garthwaite
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Other People's Clothes
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Other People's Clothes
Calla Henkel
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Last Summer in the City
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Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
£14.99   £12.99
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The Echo Chamber
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The Echo Chamber
John Boyne
£16.99   £14.99
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Blank Pages and Other Stories
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Blank Pages and Other Stories
Bernard MacLaverty
£14.99   £12.99
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The Ophelia Girls
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The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
£16.99   £14.99
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Three Rooms
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Three Rooms
Jo Hamya
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Build Your House Around My Body
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Build Your House Around My Body
Violet Kupersmith
£16.99   £14.99
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Injury Time
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Injury Time
Duncan Hamilton
£18.99   £16.99
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Everyone Is Still Alive
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Everyone Is Still Alive
Cathy Rentzenbrink
£14.99   £12.99
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The Black Dress
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The Black Dress
Deborah Moggach
£16.99   £14.99
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The Giant Dark
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The Giant Dark
Sarvat Hasin
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Intimacies
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Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
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The Country of Others
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The Country of Others
Leila Slimani
£14.99
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Signed & Special Editions

Songbirds
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Songbirds
Christy Lefteri
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Meet Me In Another Life
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Meet Me In Another Life
Catriona Silvey
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The Nameless Ones
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The Nameless Ones
John Connolly
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Other People's Clothes
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Other People's Clothes
Calla Henkel
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She Who Became the Sun
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She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan
£16.99
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I Know What You've Done
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I Know What You've Done
Dorothy Koomson
£12.99
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A Narrow Door
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A Narrow Door
Joanne Harris
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Shooting Martha
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Shooting Martha
David Thewlis
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Three Rooms
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Three Rooms
Jo Hamya
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Build Your House Around My Body
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Build Your House Around My Body
Violet Kupersmith
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Everyone Is Still Alive
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Everyone Is Still Alive
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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The Island of Missing Trees
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The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
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The Second Woman
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The Second Woman
Charlotte Philby
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Moth
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Moth
Melody Razak
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The Startup Wife
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The Startup Wife
Tahmima Anam
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Black Water Sister
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Black Water Sister
Zen Cho
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Tokyo Redux
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Tokyo Redux
David Peace
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Animal
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Animal
Lisa Taddeo
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Our Best New Fiction Paperbacks

Summerwater
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Summerwater
Sarah Moss
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Betty
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Betty
Tiffany McDaniel
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It Ends With Us
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It Ends With Us
Colleen Hoover
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One August Night
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One August Night
Victoria Hislop
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Troy
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Troy
Stephen Fry
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Ghosts
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Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
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Dark Tides
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Dark Tides
Philippa Gregory
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The Lying Life of Adults
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The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
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The Mercies
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The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
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The Windsor Knot
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The Windsor Knot
SJ Bennett
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The Mountains Sing
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The Mountains Sing
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Cherie Jones
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Earthlings
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Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
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The First Woman
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The First Woman
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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If I Had Your Face
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If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
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Here is the Beehive
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Here is the Beehive
Sarah Crossan
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As You Were
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As You Were
Elaine Feeney
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Coming Soon - Our Best Fiction to Pre-Order

Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber
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Bewilderment
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Bewilderment
Richard Powers
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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Silverview
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Silverview
John le Carré
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The Women of Troy
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The Women of Troy
Pat Barker
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Freckles
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Freckles
Cecelia Ahern
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Snow Country
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Snow Country
Sebastian Faulks
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To Paradise
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To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
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Crossroads
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Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
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Harlem Shuffle
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
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The Fell
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The Fell
Sarah Moss
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Matrix
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Matrix
Lauren Groff
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The Morning Star
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The Morning Star
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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With This Kiss
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With This Kiss
Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Keisha The Sket
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Keisha The Sket
Jade LB
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Lily
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Lily
Rose Tremain
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£18.99
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The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
£12.99
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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 Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£14.99
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The Smiley Collection Boxset
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The Smiley Collection Boxset
John le Carré
£60.00
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The Penguin Classics Book
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
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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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Black Narcissus
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Black Narcissus
Rumer Godden
£14.99
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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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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£14.99
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Necronomicon
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Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
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Wolf Hall
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
£20.00
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic paperbacks

The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
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A Little Life
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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My Brilliant Friend
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
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Rebecca
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
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The Remains of the Day
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Americanah
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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Wolf Hall
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
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The Road
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
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Excellent Women
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Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
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The Poisonwood Bible
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The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
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Carol
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Carol
Patricia Highsmith
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Bookshop
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The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Line of Beauty
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The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
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High-Rise
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High-Rise
J. G. Ballard
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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 Vanishing Half
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Dare
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Such a Fun Age
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Queenie
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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An American Marriage
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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Kindred
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
£9.99
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Real Life
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Real Life
Brandon Taylor
£9.99
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Transcendent Kingdom
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Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
£14.99   £12.99
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Luster
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Luster
Raven Leilani
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The Shadow King
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The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
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Silver Sparrow
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
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Homegoing
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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Blacktop Wasteland
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Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby
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American Spy
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American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
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Shelley Parker-Chan on the Real-Life Inspiration Behind She Who Became the Sun

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Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun, reveals the historical inspiration behind the central character of her epic novel.