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Earth
2024 || Hardcover || John Boyne || Doubleday
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.
It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt.
As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a l...
This Motherless Land
2024 || Paperback || Nikki May || Doubleday
'A spirited exploration of culture and kinship--of how we belong, and to whom' BONNIE GARMUS
'Proves that love has the power to save a life again and again. Deeply emotional and entertaining, this is a novel to treasure' EMMA STONEX, author of The Lamplighters
'A vibrant coming-of-age story that explores love, longing and belonging in a multi-cultural family' CHARMAINE WILKERSON, bestselling author of Black Cake
'Gripping and poignant' NITA PROSE, bestselling author of The Maid
'Beautiful, bo...
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Harlem Shuffle
Paperback || Colson Whitehead || Doubleday
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her pa...
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She and her Cat
2022 || Hardcover || Makoto Shinkai || Doubleday
Award winning director Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work.
Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work. Recently adapted into a TV series She and Her Cat is a slice of life story of loneliness, sadness and eventually perseverance expressed by a young woman many people can relate to.
On a rainy Spring day, a young woman finds a cat she would come to call Chobi outside and brings him home with her. Chobi falls ...
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The Flames
2022 || Paperback || Sophie Haydock || Doubleday
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk...
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art, lead by Gustav Klimt until the arrival of his scandalous protegee, Egon Schiele. Into this world come four women, each with their own story to tell:
ADELE: passionate, fierce, obstinate. The daughter of a bourgeois family, she rails against the strictures of her class and yearns for free...
The Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
2024 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Doubleday
Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million-copy Japanese magical realist mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR
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I bring together the living and the departed. I am the Go-Between.
When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world - at least, this is ...
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Four Seasons in Japan
2023 || Paperback || Nick Bradley || Doubleday
The new novel from the author of The Cat and The City.
Flo is sick of Tokyo. 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 drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway. She starts to read...
SOUND OF WATER
Kyo has failed his university entrance exams, split up with his girlfriend and is sent by his busy mother to a cram school in Onomichi, a small coastal town where he will stay ...
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The Goodbye Cat
2023 || Hardcover || Hiro Arikawa || Doubleday
THE JAPANESE BESTSELLER
A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS
Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives ...
We meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat constantly v...
Freakslaw
2024 || Hardcover || Jane Flett || Doubleday
Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.
‘The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.’ Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger
A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the...