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'A debut novel that reads like a masterpiece...' 'The emotional truth embodied here will crack you open. You will never forget Shuggie Bain.'
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- With elements of spiritualism and with lyrical prose, Robert Jones Jr recounts a story of rebellion that comes at great cost.
The tender and loving bond between Samuel and Isaiah; the survival strategies of Maggie, Essie, Be Auntie and Adam the mulatto son; the perverse hypocrisy of the landowner Paul, his wife Ruth and their son Timothy; the damaged cruelty of James the foreman; the misguided and ultimately destructive self-interest of Amos.
All these elements combine for a story that is deeply sad, as the history we know it to be, but also deeply human as we are reminded of the travesty of slavery and the views that enable it. We are also reminded of the deep injury to the psyche of those living with this in their ancestral past. Lest we forget. Craig Kirchner
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Set in the Grampian region of Victoria, and stretching over four decades, this tells the story of Lawrence and Paul. Their father died in the war, and their mother, who is distant and strict but not unloving, works hard to provide for them. When her long-lost brother comes to stay, the boys react differently. Lawrie, the oldest and gifted at art, basks in the attention of the older man, but Paul, who has always looked up to Lawrie, doesn't need a father figure and is suspicious of the uncle and his motives. When an unspeakable act occurs, Lawrie falls ill, develops a debilitating stammer and becomes socially isolated, finding solace in his painting. It isn't until 40 years later, when a family moves into the neighbouring farmhouse and upends his solitary existence, that Lawrie makes a friend of 10 yo David - and an enemy of his older sister...
A powerful, wrenching and unforgettable novel of damage and redemption, of seeing the world as no one else does, of brotherly love and tolerance, and of the loneliness of a man whose childhood was stolen from him, but who never learnt to become an adult. Lindy Jones
'Write what you know' is the advice often given to authors and the new novel from Ceridwen Dovey draws on a fair bit of truth with which to weave life into her fiction. It is true that Dovey attended Harvard. It is true that Natalie Portman and Jared Kushner were her classmates...
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A subtle and moving inquiry into what happens when the promise of youth is silenced by the practicalities of middle age. Dovey has an acute eye for detail, immersing us in the lives of her protagonists. Thoughtful and insightful. Greg Waldron
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Compelling, reading the ruminations of old friends on aspects of their lives ranging from parenting & surrogacy, career, and even artificial intelligence. Craig Kirchner
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Lucky Mallios was once a famous man - first for his chain of restaurants serving American-Greek-Australian food, then for the tragedy of the Third of April. But Lucky has a big heart and a lot of faith and he's going to make everything better, even if he's in his 70s. Emily gets the chance to do an article on Lucky for the New Yorker and flies to Sydney to interview him. What neither of them realise is how closely their lives are linked... A generous, enjoyable and nostalgia-filled tale of chance and love and family. Lindy Jones
The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman
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Elizabeth and Elizabeth
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The Angel of Waterloo
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Going Under
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How to Borrow a Dog
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The Grand Tour
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maar bidi: next generation black writing
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Life After Truth
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Lucky's
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Infinite Splendours
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The Fifth Season
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The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home
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Factory 19
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The Champagne War
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The Dressmaker's Secret
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Before the Storm
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Damascus
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The Song of the Crocodile
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Our Shadows
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Too Much Lip
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Where The Fruit Falls
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Collected Stories
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Maybe the Horse Will Talk
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The Wreck
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Bluebird
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The Good Teacher
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The Morbids
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The Burning Island
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Room for a Stranger
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Following on from SIX MINUTES (a child-snatching!), Petronella McGovern returns with another captivating novel that continues her focus on stories full of mystery and tension, and that centre around home and family. This one is an intriguing tale of our times about kindness and betrayal, and the danger of good deeds...
2020 has been a year that, for many people, has sorely tested their resilience. So it is perfect that Ewa Ramsay's novel deals with existential challenge in this story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seem easier not to. Beautiful, funny, and universally relatable this story of hidden loneliness and the power of compassion and companionship reminds us that life is an adventure truly worth living.
The Prophets
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The Push
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The Death of Jesus (#3 Jesus)
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The Chanel Sisters
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Fragile Monsters
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The Heavens
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The Dig
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Such a Fun Age
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The Black Swan of Paris
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The Electric Hotel
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When the Apricots Bloom
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Nothing To See Here
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Interior Chinatown
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Lampedusa
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Because of You
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Two Women and a Poisoning
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Mostly Dead Things
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Repentance
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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
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Inside Story
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Olga
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Olive, Again
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The Autumn of the Ace
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The Betrayals
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All Our Shimmering Skies
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A Room Made of Leaves
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The Yield
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
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Honeybee
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Mammoth
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The Dickens Boy
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Boy Swallows Universe
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Lucky's
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Damascus
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There Was Still Love
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The Weekend
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Bluebird
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Shuggie Bain
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
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Girl, Woman, Other
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V2
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Mayflies
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The Lying Life of Adults
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Stalingrad
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American Dirt
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe
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A Theatre for Dreamers
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The Mirror and the Light (#3 Wolf Hall)
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Hamnet
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The Evening and the Morning
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
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The Second Sleep
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People Like Us
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The German Midwife
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Execution (#6 Giordano Bruno)
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Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club
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A Treacherous Country
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The Silk House
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The Jane Austen Society
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The Vanishing Sky
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The Collaborator
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Finding Eadie
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The Black Swan of Paris
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Spirited
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Sword of Kings (#12 Last Kingdom)
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Lionheart
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The Book of Longings
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Hamnet
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The Puritan Princess
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The Sin Eater
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The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
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The Land Girls
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The Woman in the Green Dress
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Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall #1)
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Lucky's
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The Vanishing Half
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Betty
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
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The Family Holiday: Escape to the Cotswolds for a heartwarming...
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Rich People Problems: The outrageously funny summer...
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Lark Rise to Candleford
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Nothing Ventured
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The Old Drift
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Tidelands (#1 Fairmile)
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Greenwood
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Belgravia
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The American Fiancee
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Make Me A City: A Novel of Chicago Rising
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Storyland
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The Cedar Tree
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Unsheltered
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The Summer Before the War
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The Mountain
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A Thousand Moons
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Days Without End
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The Man Who Saw Everything
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
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The Herb of Grace: #2 Eliot Chronicles
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
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Uncle's Dream: New Translation
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The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Flappers and Philosophers
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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A Woman
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Belinda
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions):...
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The Plague: Popular Penguins
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Happy Valley: Text Classics
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The Pickwick Papers
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Middlemarch
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War and Peace
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No Small Shame
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The House of Mirth
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Wilhelm Meister
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The Castle
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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The Last of the Mohicans
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Flush
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Moby Dick
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Kallocain
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The Wish List
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Life and other Happy Endings
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Olive
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The Honey-Don't List
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If I Can't Have You
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Hideaway
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The Hidden Wife
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The Sun Sister (#6 Seven Sisters)
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PostScript (#2 PS I Love You)
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The Minute I Saw You
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Fool Me Once
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Something to Talk About (#2 Rose Hill)
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Would Like to Meet
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The Cottage at Rosella Cove
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The Switch
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Girl Gone Viral (#2 Modern Love)
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Music from Another World
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All Adults Here
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The Boyfriend Project (#1 Boyfriend Project)
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Better Luck Next Time
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Dream Maker (#1 Dream)
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Under the Table: A Novel
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Confessions of a Forty Something
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How to Borrow a Dog
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The Two Lost Mountains (#6 Jack West Jr)
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Ready Player Two (#2 Ready Player)
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The Burning Island
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Tom Clancy's Shadow of the Dragon
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Tom Clancy's Code of Honour
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Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact
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Tom Clancy's Firing Point
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All Our Broken Idols
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These Violent Delights
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The Pillars of the Earth
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The Evening and the Morning
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How to be Nowhere
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Last Survivor
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Blood in the Dust
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The River
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Wrath of Poseidon (#12 Fargo)
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The Fourth Shore
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The Feral Detective
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The Wandering
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Black 13
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Brigantia
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The Falling Sword (#2 Clash of Empires)
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Cross of Fire (Master of War #6)
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Why Visit America: Stories
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No Presents Please: Mumbai stories
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The Cheapest Nights
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Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories
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In the Time of Foxes
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Minor Detail
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Good Citizens Need Not Fear
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Please forgive us, Richard Hauptmann: a retro collection...
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A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing
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Dental Tourism
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Universal Love: Stories
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No Neat Endings
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
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Velocities: Stories
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Roar
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A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
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Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber...
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Turbulence
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Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories
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Murder in Midsummer
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Well-behaved Women
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A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos...
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Escape Routes
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Grand Union
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Leftovers
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Anh and Lucien
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Shorter Lives
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Recipe for Risotto
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Love's Philosophy
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The Prophet: The Spiritual Classic
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The Prophet
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New Selected Poems
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Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal...
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Throat
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After Fame: The Epigrams of Martial
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Prince Neptune: Poetry and Prose
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Family Trees
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Turbulence
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Navigable Ink
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Infernal Topographies
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Ask Me About the Future
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The Yield
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The Nickel Boys
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Girl, Woman, Other
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The Testaments (#2 Handmaid's Tale)
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The Weekend
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Bruny
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A Treacherous Country
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Extinctions
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Flames
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Quichotte
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There Was Still Love
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
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Allegra in Three Parts
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Here Until August: Stories
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