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The Travelers Chris Pavone September 2016 Book of the Month. When a spoiled travel journalist succumbs to sexual temptation on an assignment on a trip to Argentina, his whole world is about to be pulled apart and not just... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016 
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Cartes Postales from Greece Victoria Hislop September 2016 Book of the Month. Three years ago Cardiff born Ellie moved into a small block of twelve flats in Kensal Rise, London. Her life is dull. She does tele-ad sales for a trade mag... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Phaedra Patrick September 2016 Debut of the Month. Gosh, this is an absolute treasure of a debut… and it’s full of delightful, delicious quirkiness. 69 year old widower Arthur sets out to find the truth behind a charm... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2016
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A Boy Made of Blocks Keith Stuart September 2016 Debut of the Month. A brilliant debut from a fresh and unique voice, ‘A Boy Made of Blocks' is a book that will make you laugh, cry and think to yourself ‘thank goodness, it’s... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2016
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old Hendrik Groen September 2016 Debut of the Month. Poignant, moving and funny, I chuckled my way through this delightful (but no longer secret) diary from the rather lovable Hendrik Groen. Hendrik has reached the age where his... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/08/2016
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The Young Bride Alessandro Baricco Maxim Jakubowski September 2016 Highly Recommended. Baricco is an Italian author who treads a delicate line between fables (SILK) and the post-modern novel (MR GWYN). His latest combines both these strands with elegance and disconcerting imagination... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2016
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The Singing Bones Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman A gloriously enticing and shiver inducing read, where sculpture sits as a window into the soul of the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. I saw this book at a distance and it immediately beckoned to me, the cover ensured I... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2016
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The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow Jackie Morris Gosh, this is absolutely and completely enchanting. The moment I laid eyes on ‘The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow’ I knew I had fallen in love, I hugged the book before even opening the pages. I felt like a... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/09/2016
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Look at Me Sarah Duguid Two years after the death of a beloved mother, a stranger moves into the bereaving family home. Adult brother, sister and hippy dad take in grown-up Eunice, a half-sister/daughter who turns out to be both needy and insensitive to the... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2016
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Razor Girl Carl Hiaasen A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. A return to Hiaasen land is always welcome and RAZOR GIRL proves one of his better escapades after a few fallow years. The absurdities, venalities and sheer black humour of his... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2016
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Dragon Games Jan-Philipp Sendker A darkly captivating, tense, and beautifully written tale, that explores fear and the innermost thoughts and feelings of hearts and minds. This is the second in the ‘China’ series, and I really do recommend starting with the wonderful ‘Whispering... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/09/2016
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The Empathy Problem Gavin Extence September 2016 eBook of the Month. A must read if ever there was one, this is just stunning. A simple premise, yet it slams with impact, 32 year old banker Gabriel has a malignant brain tumour... Format: Hardback - Released: 11/08/2016
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The Bertie Project A 44 Scotland Street Novel Alexander McCall Smith If you have been with this series from the beginning, and this is the 11th, you will be familiar with the characters who live around Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Mr McCall Smith is a natural storyteller who manages to subtly... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2016
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The Muse Jessie Burton A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. In the footsteps of THE MINIATURIST, Jessie Burton's second novel confirms her as a wonderful storyteller with a vivid imagination and empathy for a broad range of disparate characters. No... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/06/2016
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The Light of Paris Eleanor Brown Two parallel stories, set in two time frames, where second chances and the links between two women flicker and burn with energy. In Chicago during 1999, Madeleine tells her own story as she flounders in a loveless marriage, she finds... Format: Paperback - Released: 14/07/2016
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Speak Louisa Hall Highly Recommended. You might imagine that a novel about the development of an Artificial Intelligence might be dry or technical. Louisa Hall’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/02/2016
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Submission Michel Houellebecq The new novel by the enfant terrible of European writing proves as controversial as its much-debated predecessors and will have readers and critics arguing for ages yet again. The as-ever-Houellebecq-like alter ego narrator is a minor middle-aged academic whose weasely... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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The Purple Shadow Christopher Bowden Christopher Bowden has again created an intriguing, literary tale with a well drawn cast of characters. Actor Colin Mallory from ‘The Red House’ can’t help but investigate a mysterious painting. The descriptive quality of the writing takes you to... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2016
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Now is the Time Melvyn Bragg ‘Now is the Time’ is a fascinating, substantial, yet surprisingly contained novel given the subject matter. Detailing the people's rebellion of 1381, Melvyn Bragg imagines this time and breathes life into the foundations and advance of the rising. With an... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2016
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At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier In her last novel, The Last Runaway, Tracy Chevalier returned to her American roots for the first time, setting her story on the Ohio frontier in 1850. At the Edge of the Orchard opens in similar circumstances: James Goodenough,... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2016
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The Ballroom Anna Hope A striking, eloquent and desperately beautiful novel, set during 1911 in a Yorkshire asylum. John, Ella and Charles find themselves at the edge of an impossible future, each decision they make, sets connecting wheels in motion. This is a fictional... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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The Forgotten Summer Carol Drinkwater Seductively beautiful and evocative writing ensures ‘The Forgotten Summer’ is hard to put down. A vineyard in France holds the key to secrets and lies that have been hidden in history. 48 year old Jane finds herself torn, she is... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2016
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Modern Lovers Emma Straub A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Summer might be fading over the horizon but Straub's new novel is a perfect summer novel for all seasons: witty, touching, humane and gently humorous. A tale of complicated relationships set... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/06/2016
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Carrying Albert Home The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator Homer Hickam A beautifully quirky, yet at the same time completely logical love story (well it is logical once you've realised that you too, have fallen in love with an alligator). ‘Carrying Albert Home’ is a nine part tale, detailing an odyssey... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2016
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Selection Day Aravind Adiga Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/09/2016
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The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion. It is about innocence and the loss of it. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, it is a celebration of the dark and the light in love. Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2016
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Dear Mr M Herman Koch That's the problem with fiction: in real life, bodies have an awkward habit of turning up. Mr. M has used some artistic licence, and our narrator is not pleased, not pleased at all. And just before he fades into obscurity,... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/08/2016
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The Book Thief Markus Zusak This is a coming-of-age, incredibly thought-provoking, beautifully written and utterly original book. The book thief in the story is a nine-year old girl but this incredible story will resonate with any teenager. It’s 1939 in Nazi Germany and... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2016
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Chair of the 2016 judges Amanda Foreman commented: "This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2016
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All That Man is David Szalay Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Chair of the 2016 judges Amanda Foreman commented: "This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2016
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His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Chair of the 2016 judges Amanda Foreman commented: "This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/11/2015
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Hot Milk Deborah Levy Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Chair of the 2016 judges Amanda Foreman commented: "This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/03/2016
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2016
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The Sellout Paul Beatty Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Chair of the 2016 judges Amanda Foreman commented: "This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2016
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The Unravelling Thorne Moore Thorne Moore delves deep into the dark corners of a mind disturbed by the wicked acts of childhood that refuse to stay hidden in this edgy psychological thriller. A simple, innocent moment unlocks memories that have long been buried and... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/07/2016
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Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, Book 1) Susie Steiner If you're looking for a fresh, addictive police procedural with characters who spring into vivid life, then look no further than Susie Steiner's Missing, Presumed. It's Steiner's first venture into the crime genre - her debut, Homecoming, was more... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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Keep You Close Lucie Whitehouse Ten years ago Rowan and Marianne were inseperable. Rowan, our narrator, lost her mother while still a baby and Marianne's family embraced her. Then Seb, the father, is killed in a car accident and something dramatic breaks up the girl's... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/08/2016
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