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Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce

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Acute, sensitive novel about a writer's psychic collapse. (The US edition has a different title - Dartmouth Park, which is far more Jane Austen than the contents.)

How to Make a Bomb: A Novel

Rupert Thomson

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A dizzying tale of social collapse, generational impasse and mid-life crisis; a Bonfire of the Vanities set in London. Brilliantly observed, lean, slick, clever and gripping.

Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller

Andrew O'Hagan

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

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A Clergyman’s Daughter

George Orwell

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A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez

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Mr Bones

Paul Theroux

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Riding The Iron Rooster

Paul Theroux

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Saint Jack

Paul Theroux

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The Vanishing Point

Paul Theroux

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Marooned in the US during the pandemic, a Nigerian writer recalls four women she has loved. The first novel in 10 years from the celebrated author of Purple Hibiscus and others.

Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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A sharp social satire set during a production of Coward's Blithe Spirit by the Midhurst am-dram society: expect some delicious narcissism.

In Judgement of Others

Eleanor Anstruther

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The first in a projected quartet of novels, this begins with two boys’ desire during a languorous summer – and the ensuing encroachment of the public into the private.

The South

Tash Aw

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An early novella, and an excellent introduction into MB's work, in which a 22-year old returns to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother.

The Visitor

Maeve Brennan

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The third in his delightful, picaresque sequence about William Neilson that began with A Street Shaken by Light.

Our Lady of the Snows

James Buchan

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A small Greek town on the coast is revisited by a grieving woman who reconnects with the friends and acquaintances she made there a decade earlier. A quiet novel in which themes of identity... read more

One Boat

Jonathan Buckley

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Buzzati, a journalist for much of his life, was celebrated for turning the events of mid-century Italy and beyond into absurdist, even nightmarish stories, gathered together here into a new ... read more

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories

Dino Buzzati

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Following the success of Tiepolo Blue (2022), Cahill's new novel takes us deeper still into the international contemporary art world and its fragile, clashing egos.

The Violet Hour

James Cahill

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A coming-of-age novel about eight women living in Rome both set and published in the 1930s: a fine group portrait, radical at the time and censored on first publication by the Italian author... read more

There’s No Turning Back

Alba de Cespedes

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A powerful novel drawing on the author's experience up in fascist Italy.

Her Side of the Story

Alba de Cespedes

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One of the earliest books Colette published under her own name: a young woman dreams of love and danger.

An Innocent Libertine

Sidonie-Gabriel Colette

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Four stories written in the author's 70s - a late flowering of her talent.

The Soldier’s Hat

Sidonie-Gabriel Colette

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A train journey in the Belle Epoque, complete with a cast of rich and poor with an anarchist along for the ride. A gripping historical novel.

The Paris Express

Emma Donoghue

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A day-long odyssey through the streets of Bologna for an Irish sculptor reckoning with the reverberations of an old love affair. By the author of the brilliant and gorgeously titled The Geom... read more

The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

Adrian Duncan

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A young woman is pulled half-dead from a river. Her amnesia gives way to fragmentary recollection as the years go by. Initially praised in China, it was subsequently withdrawn from sale for ... read more

Soft Burial: A Novel

Fang Fang

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Re-issue of a vivid 1962 novel set among the women of a South Wales mining community following the death of a young collier.

The Small Mine

Menna Gallie

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First published in Ethiopia in 1983, the book was banned and the author murdered for its portrait of the horrors of the recent civil wars. Wonderful to see it published in translation now.

Oromay

Baalu Girma

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A vivid first novel set among the young super-rich of Delhi, where two capable women struggle to manage the patriarchal expectations of their brothers in a changing world. Clever and often f... read more

The Tiger’s Share

Keshava Guha

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Reimagines Moby Dick from a female perspective. The heroine, born on the Kent coast in 1843, disguises herself as a cabin boy on a ship to NY and then joins a whaler...

Call Me Ishmaelle

Xiaolu Guo

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A rich, atmospheric novel based set among the people and events of the artist's life: his wife, his eldest daughter, and a young Russian emigr?e employed in the household.

Madame Matisse

Sophie Haydock

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A snowbound novel in which friendship is juxtaposed with an historical tragedy: shifting realities and glittering prose by the winner of the Korean 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature.

We Do Not Part

Han Kang

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A powerful work based in the exigencies of the 2020 lockdown in which the protagonist finds herself at odds with police, state and other villains.

Alive in the Merciful Country

A.L. Kennedy

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A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.

Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser

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A Canadian architect falls from grace after accepting a dubious commission. Glamorous and propulsive, this won multiple French prizes and was longlisted for the Goncourt.

May Our Joy Endure

Kev Lambert

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This caustic, witty novel is set among migrants and lost souls in East London as they try to navigate the latest government policies; translated from the Arabic.

On the Greenwich Line

Shady Lewis

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A middle-aged man takes to the road after his children have left home and his wife has had an affair...

The Rest of Our Lives

Benjamin Markovits

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