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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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The Man Who Died Twice
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The Khan
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Saima Mir
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How to Kill Your Family
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Bella Mackie
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Silverview
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It Ends With Us
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Book Lovers
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The Island of Missing Trees
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The Lamplighters
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Emma Stonex
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Still Life
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Sarah Winman
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The Paper Palace
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Miranda Cowley Heller
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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Malibu Rising
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Oh William!
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Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller
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Death and Croissants
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Ian Moore
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Douglas Stuart
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Jennifer Saint
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Emily St. John Mandel
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All The Lovers In The Night
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Mieko Kawakami
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The No-Show
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Beth O'Leary
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The Candy House
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Jennifer Egan
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The Perfect Golden Circle
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Benjamin Myers
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None of This Is Serious
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Catherine Prasifka
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Companion Piece
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Ali Smith
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Ruth & Pen
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Emilie Pine
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Elizabeth Finch
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Julian Barnes
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Portrait of a Thief
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Grace D. Li
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Kate Maxwell
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Chloe Ashby
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Sedating Elaine
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Dawn Winter
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The Red Arrow
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William Brewer
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Things They Lost
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Okwiri Oduor
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The Man Who Died Twice
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Richard Osman
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Sorrow and Bliss
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Meg Mason
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Book Lovers
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Emily Henry
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The Road Trip
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Beth O'Leary
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
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Open Water
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Caleb Azumah Nelson
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The Distant Shores
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Santa Montefiore
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How to Kill Your Family
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Bella Mackie
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First Person Singular
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Haruki Murakami
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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Mariana Enriquez
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Light Perpetual
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Francis Spufford
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Case Study
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Graeme Macrae Burnet
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A Passage North
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Anuk Arudpragasam
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The Honour of Rome
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Simon Scarrow
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Whereabouts
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Animal
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Lisa Taddeo
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The Sweetness of Water
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Nathan Harris
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Louise Nealon
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Lapvona
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Ottessa Moshfegh
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
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Godmersham Park
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Gill Hornby
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Vladimir
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Julia May Jonas
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The Murders at Fleat House
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Lucinda Riley
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We Had To Remove This Post
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Hanna Bervoets
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Two Nights in Lisbon
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Two Nights in Lisbon
Chris Pavone
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Nightcrawling
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Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
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Tiepolo Blue
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Tiepolo Blue
James Cahill
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Either/Or
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Elif Batuman
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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
Sean Lusk
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Meredith, Alone
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Meredith, Alone
Claire Alexander
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Ghost Lover
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Ghost Lover
Lisa Taddeo
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The Good Servant
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Fern Britton
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
Nell Stevens
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These Impossible Things
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These Impossible Things
Salma El-Wardany
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The Poet
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The Poet
Louisa Reid
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On the Horizon - The Biggest Fiction Books for 2022

The Passenger & Stella Maris: Boxed Set
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Cormac McCarthy
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Stone Blind
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Natalie Haynes
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Babel
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R.F. Kuang
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Murder Before Evensong
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Reverend Richard Coles
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Carrie Soto Is Back
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Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The House of Fortune
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Jessie Burton
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Heart of the Sun Warrior
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Sue Lynn Tan
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Girlcrush
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Florence Given
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The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O'Farrell
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Act of Oblivion
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Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris
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Lessons
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Ian McEwan
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Forever Home
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Forever Home
Graham Norton
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Demon Copperhead
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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Illuminations
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Alan Moore
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Liberation Day
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Liberation Day
George Saunders
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Best of Friends
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Best of Friends
Kamila Shamsie
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The Last White Man
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Mohsin Hamid
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Darling
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India Knight
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Silverview
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John le Carré
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Bad Actors
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Bad Actors
Mick Herron
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Death and the Penguin
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Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov
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The House with the Golden Door
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Elodie Harper
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People Person
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People Person
Candice Carty-Williams
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Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose
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Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose
Alison Weir
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The Dance Tree
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
Sophie Irwin
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister
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Elektra
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Jennifer Saint
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The Stardust Thief
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Chelsea Abdullah
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That Green Eyed Girl
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That Green Eyed Girl
Julie Owen Moylan
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With This Kiss
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With This Kiss
Carrie Hope Fletcher
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No Less The Devil
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No Less The Devil
Stuart MacBride
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Idol
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Idol
Louise O'Neill
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The Candy House
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Jennifer Egan
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Thrown
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Sara Cox
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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Deesha Philyaw
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Wolf Hall Trilogy
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Hilary Mantel
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood
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The Smiley Collection Boxset
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John le Carré
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
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Agatha Christie
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter
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The Hobbit
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
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Lanark
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Alasdair Gray
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
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Henry Eliot
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The Cicero Trilogy
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Robert Harris
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Metamorphosis
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Penelope Lively
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Dune
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Frank Herbert
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Rebecca
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Daphne du Maurier
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The Appeal
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Janice Hallett
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller
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Galatea
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The Cat Who Saved Books
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Sosuke Natsukawa
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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
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William Sieghart
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Recitatif
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Toni Morrison
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Cat Stories
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Diana Secker Tesdell
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Classic Cat Stories
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Becky Brown
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The Woman in Black
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Susan Hill
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Little Grey Cells
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Agatha Christie
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Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott
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Dog Stories
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Jane Eyre
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The Death of Francis Bacon
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Max Porter
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Muriel Spark
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Seriously Funny
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Terry Pratchett
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood
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My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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George Orwell
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Rebecca
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Lord of the Flies
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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A Little Life
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Excellent Women
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Barbara Pym
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Carol
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J. G. Ballard
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Trumpet
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Girl, Woman, Other
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The Vanishing Half
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Queenie
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Abi Dare
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The Underground Railroad
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The City We Became
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Such a Fun Age
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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Marlon James
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White Teeth
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An American Marriage
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And Still I Rise
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Dr Maya Angelou
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The Fiction You Need to Read in 2022

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Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne, our Fiction Book of the Month for January, picks the female characters from Greek myth that she would like to see take centre stage.

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