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A Question of Trust Penny Vincenzi October 2017 Book of the Month An interesting departure for Penny Vincenzi as she takes a working-class man made good as her central character. Starting in 1937 and continuing through the war years the main thrust of the story however... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017 
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The Silent Companions Laura Purcell Set in three time scales this is truly terrific stuff, a lovely, chilling, Gothic tale. In 1635 the “Silent Companions” are purchased. In 1865 they, and a journal, are discovered in a locked room. Some years later a damaged mute... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017
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The Spy Paulo Coelho October 2017 Book of the Month A short, emotional and entirely captivating novel based on the real events that surrounded, enclosed and smothered the notorious Mata Hari. Mata Hari is a name that still evokes and conjures vivid images,... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Autumn Ali Smith October 2017 Book of the Month | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, and a story about ageing... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/08/2017
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Other Featured Books this Month
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The Blind A. F. Brady October 2017 Debut of the Month The author is an American psychotherapist who sets her first novel in a Manhattan mental institute so bringing a large amount of authenticity to this thriller. Samantha, Sam, the golden girl is the obvious... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017
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The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa October 2017 Debut of the Month This ambitious and powerfully moving debut tells the true story of one of the lesser-known tragedies of WWII, when Jewish passengers aboard a transatlantic liner expecting to be given refuge in Cuba were refused... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The History of Bees Maja Lunde October 2017 Debut of the Month An outstanding feat of literary fiction in which three individuals - oceans and centuries apart - are indelibly connected by their devotion to beekeeping. This is speculative fiction at its smartest, and comes with... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby Cherise Wolas October 2017 Debut of the Month Surprising, vivid, and eloquent, this is a truly beautiful debut. Joan Ashby is a talented, award winning writer, and while marriage and family press pause in the story of her career, words demand access... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley October 2017 Debut of the Month This exuberant debut about living life to the full with that someone special (who might just happen to have four legs and a tail) races through a riotous rainbow of emotions, and will delight... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent October 2017 Debut of the Month Make no mistake, this debut novel is startling and often painfully uncomfortable, yet it is a stunning, actually breathtaking piece of literature. 14 year old Turtle is strong, capable, different, she is also suffering…... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/08/2017
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Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan Where Jennifer Egan's previous book A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD was all brevity and ellipses in the way the varied short stories moved between genres and came together to form a whole, her much-awaited new opus is what one... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2017
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Uncommon Type Some Stories Tom Hanks A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories that are surprising, intelligent, heart-warming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is... Format: Hardback - Released: 17/10/2017
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The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. The god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Snow Falling on Cedars, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. He saw the soft cedars of San Piedro Island, its high, rolling hills, the low mist that lay in long... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The Little Friend Donna Tartt A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Eat Pray Love, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listTo travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels A powerful story of suffering and the power of love. When a young holocaust survivor is found in the woods by a Greek archaeologist his life is transformed. Although haunted by the death of his family he discovers that love... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Devil's Day Andrew Michael Hurley The second novel from the author of the award-winning bestseller The Loney. Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep from the moors. Generally, very little changes in the Briardale... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2017
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My Side of the Diamond Sally Gardner Jazmin has been shunned ever since her best friend Becky disappeared. But Becky didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall building and seemingly never reached the ground. It was as if she simply vanished into thin air. Did... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2017
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Death of a She Devil Fay Weldon Sequel to The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Lewis is a new kind of 'heroine'. He's an ultra-confident, twenty-something man. But he won't be satisfied with his life until he can transition into the ultimate symbol of... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Home Fire Kamila Shamsie LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/08/2017
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The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Hades Candice Fox Homicide detective Frank Bennett feels like the luckiest man on the force when he meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Origin Dan Brown The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2017
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The Stolen Bicycle Ming-Yi Wu A beautifully written, rather special novel, detailing the highly personal journey of a family through turbulent times in Taiwan’s history. A stolen bicycle sits centre stage in this story, in fact the bicycles of Taiwan are hugely important, which sounds... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2017
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Fools and Mortals Bernard Cornwell The title of course refers to Puck’s line in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Lo what fools these mortals be!”. It is a new period for Cornwell who is most famous for his Regency “Sharpe” series and more recently for the... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2017
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A Pug Like Percy Fiona Harrison Ahhh, who could resist Percy the Pug! A lovely, heartwarming story set from the point of view of an adorable little dog. Percy, abandoned at an animal rescue centre soon finds a new family, however happily ever after may be... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Fresh Complaint Jeffrey Eugenides If you are familiar with Eugenides’ work then these, his first collection of short stories, are probably what you would expect, i.e. not happy. They are about love, envy, regret, desire, illness and death. Only one, Baster, has any humour,... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2017
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Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel -... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Mrs Osmond John Banville The Booker Prizewinning author of The Sea offers up another intelligent, beautifully written novel this time with a Victorian setting. The story flows along elegantly with each chapter a vignette. Nothing is over-explained, the descriptions are evocative and the thoughts... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Invisible Women It's Time to Talk About You! Sarah Long Tessa is looking for something to fill the gaping hole left by her youngest daughter's departure for uni, where it seems she's now engaged in all sorts of unsavoury activities, if Tessa's obsessive late-night Facebook stalking is anything to go... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale This reads like a first rate crime novel but is in fact an analysis of real life events. It's so good it won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. Said to have inspired Dickens, Willkie Collins and many,... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The English Patient Michael Ondaatje February 2011 Guest Editor Carmen Reid on Michael Ondaatje... The English Patient is a dream of a romantic novel. It follows two love stories, one between a soldier and a nurse which unfolds as the book progresses and the... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini This book seemed to come out of nowhere. It was the first Afghan novel to be written in English and it became a word-of-mouth bestseller in no time at all. Telling a tragic story of childhood jealousy and fear, it... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke A very special book indeed, magical in all its senses, which won the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award for best book. Slow to get into and long, it is written in the style of the period in which... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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Restless William Boyd I am an enormous fan of William Boyd although some of his novels are a little disappointing. Not this one. I must admit I was surprised to discover that it is actually just a spy story … but what a... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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History of Wolves Emily Fridlund Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Already being acclaimed as one of the most exciting new debuts of 2017, Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that will appeal to fans of The Girls and The... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/02/2017
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The Dancing Barber AC Michael Set in 1963, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and the Ukraine, this initially appears to be a story about everyday life for a family who have not had an everyday existence. The author states that the background to this tale is... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/09/2016
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The Tiger's Prey Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper The fifteenth Courtney saga follows the brothers Tom and Guy and half brother Francis. It’s the sequel to Monsoon (1999) and Birds of Prey (1997) and gives us a fair bit of Cornish background and how the family came to... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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The Word is Murder Anthony Horowitz As with The Magpie Murders so Horowitz also makes an appearance in this only here he is very much the star. In first person narrative he portrays himself as an author following a murder investigation. So we enter the world... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Death Message Kate London The second in a terrific series by a woman who really knows her stuff. She was a detective with the Metropolitan murder squad and has created two very real and likeable main characters, always a plus, and given them some... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair Heidi Swain This feel-good festive feast is the perfect stocking filler for those who yearn for the magic of a good old yuletide miracle. When Anna arrives at remote Wynthorpe Hall to work as companion to its eccentric owner, she’s one of... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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I Heart Forever Lindsey Kelk A lovely, entertaining and terrifically readable continuation of the I Heart stories by Lindsey Kelk. While I Heart Forever is the seventh in this particular series, I feel that you could read this as a standalone novel, though you... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Birdcage Walk Helen Dunmore A breathtaking, evocative, and stormy tale set in the early 1790’s, just as the fallout from the French Revolution was spilling over into life in Britain. Lizzie Fawkes, daughter of a radical thinker and writer, has settled in Bristol and... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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Practical Magic Alice Hoffman Everyone needs a little magic in their lives... and for the Owens sisters, magic is inevitable. Practical Magic is the beloved novel by Alice Hoffman, inspiration for the classic film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. Format: Paperback - Released: 19/10/2017
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The Best of Adam Sharp Graeme Simsion The heart-warming new novel from Graeme Simsion, the international bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect. The Best of Adam Sharp is about growing old and feeling young, about happy times and sad memories, about... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2017
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The Poetry Pharmacy William Sieghart A distillation of prescriptions given – and taken – on William Sieghart’s online Poetry Pharmacy. No harm to be got from these prescriptions, instead there is comfort, love, advice and experience aplenty. I was immediately taken by the poems of... Format: Hardback - Released: 28/09/2017
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