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Good Material (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Dolly Alderton || Penguin Books UK
2054 (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Elliot Ackerman || Penguin Books UK
The Vaster Wilds (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Lauren Groff || Penguin Books UK
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN
'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES
'[Has] a visionary quality' OBSERVER
A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive
A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her ...
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Girl, Woman, Other
Paperback || Bernardine Evaristo || Penguin Books UK
Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
This is Britain as you've never read it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost...
Four Seasons in Japan (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Nick Bradley || Penguin Books UK
From the author of The Cat and The City - 'vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell - a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From the very first page, Flo is transformed and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel, a d...
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Summer
Paperback || Ali Smith || Penguin Books UK
Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-force
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers....
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Troy
Our Greatest Story Retold
Paperback || Stephen Fry || Penguin Books UK
Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the legend of Troy - a tale of love and war, passion and power - following his sensational bestsellers MYTHOS and HEROES
'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .'
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay ...
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Heruitgave)
2022 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Penguin Books UK
For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.
'Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides' GUARDIAN
Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued?
In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining.
At a single touch...
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Riku Onda || Penguin Books UK
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN
- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
- A MAJOR MOVIE RELEASE IN JAPAN
'A thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship, and personal demons' OBSERVER
'Propulsive and poetic' KIRKUS
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Welcome to a magical world...
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The Island of Missing Trees
2022 || Paperback || Elif Shafak || Penguin Books UK
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021
A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hi...