"Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss"
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A house for Mr Biswas
£12.99A house for Mr Biswas
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul’s best-loved novel, a tragicomic tour de force.
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After the storm
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All the colours of the dark
£9.99All the colours of the dark
Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph ‘Patch’ Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend’s disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him. But when she does: it will break her heart. Patch lies in a pitch-black room – all alone – for days or maybe weeks. Until he feels a hand in his. Her name is Grace and, though they cannot see each other, she takes him from the darkness and paints their world with her words. In this hopeless place, they fall in love. But when he escapes: there is no sign she ever even existed. To find her again, Patch charts an epic search across the country. And, to set him free, Saint will shadow his journey: on a darker path to hunt down the man who took them. Even if finding the truth means losing each other forever.
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And Then There Were None
£9.99And Then There Were None
The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite.
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Anyone’s ghost
£16.99Anyone’s ghost
A gorgeous modern love-story about two young men who meet, almost fall in-love, and find their lives caught up in three car crashes – for fans of Call Me By Your Name
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Before we forget kindness
£14.99Before we forget kindness
The fifth book in the spectacular Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time.
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Blue sisters
£9.99Blue sisters
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
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Bring Up the Bodies
£10.99Bring Up the Bodies
Now a major TV series
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
The second book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light
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Confessions
£16.99Confessions
It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of her family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool.
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Cuckoo
£18.99Cuckoo
After Nancy’s father dies, she is faced with two life-changing revelations. One – she has a half-brother she knew nothing about; Two – she’s expecting a baby. Her brother is clearly the result of an affair, and she’s having the baby with a man who, despite being in a relationship with Nancy for over two years, shows absolutely no signs of commitment. He’s not even in the same country as her right now. Nancy’s half-sister Rita is furious with their father and wants nothing to do with their new-found brother. But Nancy is intrigued. In a tumult of grief, bewilderment, fear and hope, she is eager to meet Oliver and find the answer to what really makes a family. And in a few months’ time, who is going to step up and help her bring up a baby?
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Cuckoo
£9.99Cuckoo
After Nancy’s father dies, she is faced with two life-changing revelations. One – she has a half-brother she knew nothing about; Two – she’s expecting a baby. Her brother is clearly the result of an affair, and she’s having the baby with a man who, despite being in a relationship with Nancy for over two years, shows absolutely no signs of commitment. He’s not even in the same country as her right now. Nancy’s half-sister Rita is furious with their father and wants nothing to do with their new-found brother. But Nancy is intrigued. In a tumult of grief, bewilderment, fear and hope, she is eager to meet Oliver and find the answer to what really makes a family. And in a few months’ time, who is going to step up and help her bring up a baby?
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Day one
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Days at the Morisaki bookshop
£10.99Days at the Morisaki bookshop
Hidden in Jinbocho, Tokyo is a booklover’s paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takano has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Ojisan, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoki left him five years earlier. When Takano’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle’s offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takano is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop. As summer fades to autumn, Ojisan and Takano discover they have more in common than they first thought.
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Days of light
£18.99Days of light
From the author of The End We Start From, Days of Light is a sweeping, gorgeous story that begins with a life-changing tragedy and a country on the eve of war.
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Death On the Nile
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Diary of an ordinary woman
£9.99Diary of an ordinary woman
Presented as the ‘edited’ journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, this is a fiction where every word rings true. Millie starts her diary at the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War.
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