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The Smallest Man: the most uplifting book of the year

By Frances Quinn

THE QUEEN OF SUBTLETIES

By Dunn, Suzannah

The Right Time

By Danielle Steel

The Other Boleyn Girl

By Philippa Gregory

False God of Rome

By Robert Fabbri

The Maid of the White Hands: The Second of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

By Rosalind Miles

The Queen's Sorrow

By Suzannah Dunn

Crusoe's Daughter

By Jane Gardam

Pere Goriot

By Honore de Balzac, A. J. Krailsheimer (Emeritus Student and former Tutor in French, Emeritus Student and former Tutor in French, Christ Church, Oxford)

The Gods of War

By Conn Iggulden, Iggulden, Conn

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics)

By Joyce, James

The Square of Sevens: The Times and Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Riot: DI Stratton 5

By Laura Wilson

My Heart

By Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Celia Hawkesworth

The Ghost Writer

By Philip Roth

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Hernan Diaz

A Beautiful Spy: The captivating new Richard & Judy pick from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller, based on a true story

By Rachel Hore

Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust

By A. Anatoli, David Floyd

Burial Rites

By Kent, Hannah, Hannah Kent

Man and Wife

By Parsons, Tony

The Challenges of a King

By K. M. Ashman

Be Frank with Me

By Julia Claiborne Johnson

Six Tudor Queens: Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife: Six Tudor Queens 6

By Alison Weir

Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2

By Alison Weir

Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4

By Alison Weir

The Last Collection

By Jeanne Mackin

An Argentine in my Kitchen: How I followed my heart to Buenos Aires

By Carolyn Kerr

The Books of Jacob

By Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft

Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street

By Burley, W. J., Conn Iggulden

The Way of All Flesh (Wordsworth Classics)

By Butler, Samuel