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Small Rain
2024 || Paperback || Garth Greenwell || Picador
A thrillingly gripping autobiographical novel of illness, by the acclaimed author of &i>What Belongs To You&/i> (winner of Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards) and &i>Cleanness&/i>.
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
2024 || Paperback || Sanaka Hiiragi || Picador
One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . .
In a cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. A kind man will hand them a hot cup of tea and gently explain that, having reached the end of their life, they have one final task.
There is a stack of photos on their lap, one for every day of their life, and now they must choose the pictures that capture their most treasured memories, which will be placed in...
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Everything's Fine (Heruitgave)
The completely addictive juicy summer read
2024 || Paperback || Cecilia Rabess || Picador
'Acutely smart' - Elizabeth Day
'Completely addictive' – Taylor Jenkins Reid
'Funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable' – India Knight
Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class. And she’s not expecting to inherit anything.
After graduation, Jess and Josh end up working at the same bank. They share lunch, they share sparring matches, they share ambit...
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
2024 || Paperback || Genki Kawamura || Picador
Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .
Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate ...
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The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
2024 || Paperback || Hisashi Kashiwai || Picador
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food Detectives series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps recreate them...
Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at their Kamogawa Diner down a quiet street in Kyoto. They can help recreate meals from their customers' most treasured memories. Through ingenious investiga...
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The Doll Factory
The spellbinding gothic page turner of desire and obsession
2024 || Paperback || Elizabeth Macneal || Picador
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is a story of art, obsession and possession set in Victorian London.
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Rosarita
2024 || Hardcover || Anita Desai || Picador
A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss.
And then a woman approaches her. The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother didn’t paint. She never travelled to Mexico. But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows ...
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Akin
2020 || Paperback || Emma Donoghue || Picador
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets, in the new masterpiece from bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
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Wellness (Heruitgave)
An epic story of a marriage from New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
2024 || Paperback || Nathan Hill || Picador
The story of a marriage, a city and a society over two decades, Wellness is a major novel of our times, in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Elizabeth Strout.
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Shuggie Bain
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
2021 || Paperback || Douglas Stuart || Picador
A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.