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Creation Lake
2024 || Paperback || Rachel Kushner || Jonathan Cape
From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France
'Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture' HERNAN DIAZ
'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carré' OBSERVER
Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty – is sent by her mysterious but powerful...
Resolution
2024 || Paperback || Irvine Welsh || Jonathan Cape
From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray Lennox
"The truth is what we say the truth is . . ."
Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to start a new life. He has left Edinburgh Police behind for a fresh career and a fresh relationship in Brighton.
Then he meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he is seemingly a pillar of the local community - yet he soon draws Lennox back to a past...
The Women Behind the Door
2024 || Paperback || Roddy Doyle || Jonathan Cape
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
2024 || Paperback || Douglas Westerbeke || Jonathan Cape
If you could never stay, where would you go? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets The Midnight Library in this dazzlingly epic debut novel.
Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she begins to succumb to a mysterious illness.
When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees ...
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Enlightenment
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Perry || Jonathan Cape
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry’s finest novel to date.
'A complete masterwork'
SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo
'Enlightenment is a gift'
SEÁN HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide
Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their commitment to religion and the...
How It Works Out
2024 || Paperback || Myriam Lacroix || Jonathan Cape
What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hope that it would work out?
'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
'Hilarious, heart-rending... Utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON
When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:
What if they became mothers by finding...
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Young Hag
2024 || Paperback || Isabel Greenberg || Jonathan Cape
Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have closed.
Young Hag has grown up believing her mother and grandmother are the last witches in the land. But when tragedy strikes, she turns her back on these tales. Where is their magic when they really need it?
Then one day they find a changeling in the woods. Confronted with real magic at last, Young Hag has no choice but to bel...
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Victory City
2023 || Paperback || Salman Rushdie || Jonathan Cape
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa K...
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The Night Side of the River
2023 || Paperback || Jeanette Winterson || Jonathan Cape
A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they hau...