"Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss"
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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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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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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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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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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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Duino elegies
£12.99Duino elegies
Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests’ translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke’s poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature’s great masterpieces in fresh light.
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Everything’s fine
£9.99Everything’s fine
When Jess, a liberal Black woman, and Josh, a preppy white conservative, fall reluctantly, complicatedly, deeply in love, they are forced to ask themselves whether love can overcome two very different ways of seeing the world.
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Family lore
£9.99Family lore
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake – bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life – her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen? But Flor isn’t the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband’s infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora – always on a mission to solve her sisters’ problems – needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.
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For whom the bell tolls
£9.99For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway’s classic portrayal of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of an American fighting on the Republican side, captures the excitement and danger of war in a way few other works of fiction have been unable to do.
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Holmes and Moriarty
£18.99Holmes and Moriarty
Another clever and intriguing crime mystery from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Turnglass. The first Sherlock Holmes novel to be authorised by the Conan Doyle Estate since Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk.
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House of leaves
£40.00House of leaves
A young couple – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green – move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane. But something is terribly wrong – their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility. What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane, unveiling a thrilling and terrifying history.
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In memoriam
£9.99In memoriam
It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him, always has been. When Gaunt’s German mother asks him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, Gaunt signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry. Before long, their classmates have followed suit.
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Isaac and the egg
£9.99Isaac and the egg
When Isaac Addy walks into the woods on the worst day of his life and finds something extraordinary there, he already knows he’s going to take it home. A grieving Isaac and his curious new friend are unlikely companions. They don’t even speak the same language. But their chance encounter will transform Isaac’s life in ways he cannot yet imagine. And maybe he will finally be able to tell the truth. Sometimes, to get out of the woods, you have to go into them.
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Januaries
£22.00Januaries
A fairytale twist on the timelessness of love, heartbreak and death, this is a collection of iconic short stories by bestselling author Olivie Blake. For fans of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and Olivie Blake’s Alone With You in the Ether.
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