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The Other Black People (Heruitgave)
2022 || Paperback || Zakiya Dalila Harris || Bloomsbury UK
* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
'One of the biggest reads of the summer, and for good reason' INDEPENDENT
'Enormously fun . . . A joyous thrill ride of a book' VOX
'Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie crossed with Jordan Peele's Get Out . . . Slick and addictive' METRO
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Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and the micro-aggressions, she's thrilled when Hazel star...
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The Librarianist (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Patrick deWitt || Bloomsbury UK
**AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER**
**Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer**
'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderl...
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Paperback || Susanna Clarke || Bloomsbury UK
In this title, readers can enter the dazzling world of 19th century magicians fighting Napoleon's advancing army - and fighting between themselves
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Violeta (Heruitgave)
2023 || Paperback || Isabel Allende || Bloomsbury UK
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE
'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN
'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAIL
One extraordinary woman.
One hundred years of history.
One unforgettable story.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From...
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
2023 || Paperback || Hwang Bo-reum || Bloomsbury UK
There was only one thing on her mind.
I must start a bookshop.
Yeong-ju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeong-ju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop.
In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeong-ju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married housewife, and th...
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The Ghost Theatre
2023 || Paperback || Mat Osman || Bloomsbury UK
'Dramatic and gripping... a breathless journey of hope, beauty, wonder, tragedy, and the power of theatre' Isabelle Schuler
'Utterly transporting' Catriona Ward
'Vivid, heady and brilliantly staged' Stuart Evers
'Rich and evocative with shades of Angela Carter' Ever Dundas
TO LOVE IS TO FALL . . .
On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled ch...
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Death Valley
2023 || Paperback || Melissa Broder || Bloomsbury UK
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow - for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby...
Let Us Descend (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Jesmyn Ward || Bloomsbury UK
'Gripping, mythic, bone-pulverising ... A spectacular achievement'
ANTHONY DOERR
'Jesmyn Ward is one of the greatest writers of all time. And Let Us Descend, once again, proves it'
JACQUELINE WOODSON
'Transcendent ... The best book I've read in years'
LOUISE KENNEDY
'Stunning ... Will grip you from the first word to the last'
NATHAN HARRIS
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The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.
On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of he...
Entitlement
2024 || Paperback || Rumaan Alam || Bloomsbury UK
Brooke is thirty-three, resolutely single and slightly adrift. She wants her work and life to have meaning - and she finds it at the Asher and Carol Jaffee Foundation, where she's tasked with assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the noble quest to give away his hard-earned fortune.
When Asher Jaffee takes a special interest in Brooke, it's hard for her not to fall under his spell. He's attracted to her intelligence, her willingness to spar with him, her refusal to be deferential....
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
2024 || Paperback || Helen Simonson || Bloomsbury UK
A young woman's life is forever changed in the summer after World War I when she befriends a group of independent, motorcycle-riding women in a seaside town on the English coast
'Written with great humour and compassion, it is an absolute delight' - PIP WILLIAMS
'An absolute joy of a book ... Historical fiction of the highest order' - ANN NAPOLITANO
It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to g...