Category: General
The mesmerizing and unsettling debut thriller everyone will be talking about in 2020 'One of the most interesting and compelling narrators I've ever encountered' SHARI LAPENA, bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR 'Chilling and original' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of LET ME LIE 'This i ...Show more
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A wardrobe of Dior gowns, a secret kept for sixty-five years, and the three women bound forever by war... from the New York Times bestselling author of THE FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER. England, 1939. Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort where she encounters her estranged sister, Liberty, and ...Show more
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Antarctica is getting hotter ...Summer Wright, hippie turned TV production assistant, organises her life down to the minute. And when her project-management-guru boyfriend, Adrian, proposes marriage - right on schedule - she will reach the peak of The Cone of Certainty. At least, that's the plan - until ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city - Los Angeles - but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tr ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
Category: Crime
This is a book that will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will break your heart. A triumph of a novel from the award-winning author of Tall Oaks. With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper's The Dry, We Begin at the End is a pow ...Show more
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A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
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At Bayside Primary, it's the adults who are behaving like children... Lizzie, Megan and Sam became accidental friends over good coffee, banter and wrong-world jokes at school drop off. Lizzie is a part-time midwife with four kids and a secret past. Sam is an ex-chef and stay-at-home dad with an absent, ...Show more
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This is the story of a crime. This is the story of a miracle. There are two stories here. Hannah Mulvey left her wind-lashed island home as a teenager. But her stubborn, defiant mother is dying, and Hannah has returned to Chesil, taking up a teaching post at the tiny schoolhouse, doing what she can in ...Show more
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'Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN 'A brilliant exploration offriendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA What happened to the women we were supposed ...Show more
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* The phenomenal Indian bestseller * Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award * 'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a ...Show more
Category: Crime | Reading Level: Adult
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book I didn't want this story to end " - Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." - The New York Times Book Review "Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver." - Bu ...Show more
