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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera /anglais cover image

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A dazzling and sweeping new novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry! When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a...

The Tell

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A 'beautiful story' (Bessel van der Kolk) of trauma and healing, and a non-fiction blockbuster that will captivate reading groups and launch many debates, for readers of Educated and The Body Keeps the Score. 'What beautiful writing, crafting, and pacing. And what a heart Amy Griffin has. Your own heart will break, and...

The Dream Hotel

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In a world without privacy, what is the cost of freedom? Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport and inform her that she will commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined...

Deep Cuts

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Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. 'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS 'Clever and heart-wrenching and addictive' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'An incredibly special book' BETH O'LEARY 'So relatable and enjoyable' GILLIAN MCALLISTER The first time Joe plays Percy one of...

Did I Ever Tell You?

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Room on the Sea

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The brand new novel from the global bestselling author - a tender love story with resonant themes of regret and longing. From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name'Aciman writes with an aching sensitivity.'JOHN BOYNE'You don't so much read Andre Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them.'THE...

Crooked Seeds

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In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her family’s former home, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions about her brother, and his dealings with...

A Little Trickerie

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Meet Tibb. Bad girl, hoodwinker, one-time angel. A blazingly original and irreverent tale of belief, friendship and courage, set in 16th century England, with an unforgettable, endearing and distinctly unangelic heroine. Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. Her mother has taught her that...

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Picture Imperfect

by Jacqueline Wilson

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An adult sequel to beloved fan-favourite children’s novel The Illustrated Mum. ‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s not very well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’ Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the...

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Good Girl

by Aria Aber

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This title is expected to ship end of April A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven...

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Rytual

by Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

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This title is expected to ship early May I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs. Marnie Sellick is adrift when she lands a job at the coveted, mysterious beauty brand rytuał cosmetica. The enigmatic founder and CEO, Luna Peters, takes a liking to Marnie, and as...

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My Friends

By Fredrik Backman

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This is a pre-order due to ship in June #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a...

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A Different Kind of Power

by Jacinda Ardern

$60.00

Pre-order due to ship in June From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders. What...

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The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey

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Pre-order due to publish in May In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious...

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Slags

by Emma Jane Unsworth

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Pre-order due to publish in March FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON‘An amazing writer’ MARGOT ROBBIE Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate. Once a...

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Air

By John Boyne

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Pre-order due to publish in May From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take...

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April Bookety Club

May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin.

Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.

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A Little Life

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A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an...

Honeybee

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'Find out who you are, and live that life.'Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below.At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette.The two see each...

American Dirt

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Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, American Dirt is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border. Described as 'A Grapes of Wrath for our times' (Don Winslow) it is a story that will leave you utterly changed.Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop.Yesterday, Lydia was married to a...

The Women

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It would be the journey of a lifetime . . .‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing...

Small Things Like These

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A Book of the Year in The Times and The New StatesmanIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and...

The Kite Runner

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Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family...

The Kite Runner

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THE SPECIAL 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph'Heartbreaking' The Times'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that...

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BBB x Taus Mug

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Our BBB x Taus Mugs are the perfect way to subtly (smugly) flaunt your love for books over your morning coffee. Here for a limited time, not a long time. Taus presents a unique interpretation of the classic diner style coffee cup. Clean lines, good balance and just the right...

Book Light

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The NoBlue Book Light is a rechargeable amber book light that is 100% blue light free. It is designed to clip perfectly to books, notepads, e-readers, or virtually anything with an edge! This light gives you a warm and relaxing evening experience completely free of any sleep-disturbing light. Featuring an...

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The Four-Way Path

Why Indian spirituality holds the key to a life of true fulfilment – the new book from the multi-million-copy bestselling authors of Ikigai How can I find purpose in my life? In Hindu philosophy, there are four goals that all human beings strive for: virtue, prosperity, love and freedom. If you...

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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period―as well...

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A House Built on Sand

Winner of the 2023 Gifkins Prize, A House Built on Sand is the vivid and gripping story of a mother-daughter relationship and the secrets that threaten to shatter their world Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files-and her job as a...

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Chronicles Of A Cairo Bookseller

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef’s troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based DiwanThe streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled...

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