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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 Bestselling Fiction Books

Lessons in Chemistry
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
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Murder Before Evensong
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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Small Things Like These
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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It Ends With Us
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Damascus Station
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Elizabeth Finch
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Godmersham Park
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1989
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Medusa
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Daisy Jones and The Six
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Never Never
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Elektra
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Someone Else's Shoes
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Blue Water
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Our Best New Fiction Hardbacks

In Memoriam
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Old Babes in the Wood
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Someone Else's Shoes
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Godkiller
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The Cloisters
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Victory City
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Clytemnestra
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The Shards
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
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Weyward
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The Garnett Girls
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The New Life
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The Whispering Muse
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This Other Eden
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Cold People
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Now She is Witch
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Really Good, Actually
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Birnam Wood
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Our Best New Fiction Paperbacks

Lessons in Chemistry
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Murder Before Evensong
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Elizabeth Finch
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Godmersham Park
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Elektra
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The Murders at Fleat House
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The No-Show
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Thrown
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The Leviathan
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Booth
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The Candy House
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Pandora
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Send Nudes
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The Murder Book
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Secretly Yours
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Violeta
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Unmissable Debuts

Discover the most exciting new voices in Fiction

In Memoriam
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Lady MacBethad
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Amazing Grace Adams
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Weyward
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The Garnett Girls
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The New Life
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Wandering Souls
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The Heroines
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Owlish
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The Mountain in the Sea
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The Bandit Queens
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Maame
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Really Good, Actually
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We All Want Impossible Things
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Queen K
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One Small Voice
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Spilt Milk
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Stolen
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Coming Soon

Holly
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The Last Devil to Die
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Yellowface
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The Fraud
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The Armour of Light
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The Shadow Cabinet
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Mother Hens
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Gold
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Atalanta
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The Square of Sevens
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Shy
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Romantic Comedy
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So Close
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Small Worlds
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
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The Wake-Up Call
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Pineapple Street
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Happy Place
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Signed & Special Editions

Frontier
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Old God's Time
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A Winter Grave
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Lady MacBethad
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Exiles
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On the Savage Side
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The Dead of Winter
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The Only Suspect
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Yellowface
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Untamed Shore
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Birnam Wood
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
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Cuddy
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Atalanta
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Shy
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Romantic Comedy
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Homecoming
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Small Worlds
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

The Song of Achilles
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The Secret History
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The Hobbit
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The Bell Jar
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Call Me By Your Name
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Brave New World
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Dune
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The Great Gatsby
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The Passenger & Stella Maris: Box Set
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The Last Unicorn
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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The Box of Delights
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Fingersmith
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Wolf Hall
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Our Best LGBTQ+ Contemporary Fiction Books

Our Wives Under The Sea
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To Paradise
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At Certain Points We Touch
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Couplets
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Plain Bad Heroines
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Here Again Now
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Your Driver Is Waiting
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Vagabonds!
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
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An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
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The Dance Tree
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Tell Me Everything
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Rainbow Rainbow
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Other People Manage
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The Kingdom of Sand
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Yerba Buena
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there are more things
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Bolla
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Dark Academia Books

The Atlas Six
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Babel
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Bunny
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Ninth House
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A Deadly Education
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Vicious
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These Violent Delights
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The Secret History
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The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1
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The Maidens
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Plain Bad Heroines
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The Truants
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How We Fall Apart
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Vita Nostra
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Catherine House
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The Cloisters
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic paperbacks

The Handmaid's Tale
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My Brilliant Friend
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The Remains of the Day
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Rebecca
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Wolf Hall
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Americanah
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The Underground Railroad
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Carol
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The Bookshop
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A Little Life
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The Road
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Trumpet
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High-Rise
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Excellent Women
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The Line of Beauty
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Contemporary Fiction by Writers of Colour

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

My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Girl, Woman, Other
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The Vanishing Half
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The Underground Railroad
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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An American Marriage
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Kindred
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Queenie
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Such a Fun Age
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Homegoing
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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The City We Became
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
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On Beauty
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Washington Black
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Rainbow Milk
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The Waterstones Round Up: March's Best Books

Spring is here and brilliant books are very much in bloom. Check out our favourites on the blog.

Bonnie Garmus on the Origin of Elizabeth Zott

Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry, our Fiction Book of the Month for March, provides a little background detail on her magnificent heroine, Elizabeth Zott.

Coco Mellors on Her Top Unconventional Love Stories

Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein, our Fiction Book of the Month for February, reveals her favourite unconventional romances.

Gill Hornby on Her Favourite Jane Austen Novel

Gill Hornby, author of Godmersham Park, our Fiction Book of the Month for January, reveals her favourite novel by the iconic Regency novelist.