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

By Rachel Hore

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Hernan Diaz

The Ghost Writer

By Philip Roth

My Heart

By Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Celia Hawkesworth

The Riot: DI Stratton 5

By Laura Wilson

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

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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

By Joyce, James

The Gods of War

By Conn Iggulden, Iggulden, Conn

Drowned Hopes: A Dortmunder Mystery

By Donald E. Westlake

This Devastating Fever

By Sophie Cunningham

Une enfance algerienne: A40727 (Folio)

By Sebbar, Leila

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

By M. Glenn Taylor

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien charles williams and Their Friends

By Carpenter, Humphrey

A Court Affair

By Purdy, Emily, Emily Purdy

Shelter from the Storm

By Ellie Dean

Middlesex

By Jeffrey Eugenides

Stolen Beauty: A Novel

By Laurie Lico Albanese

Groundskeeping: 'An extraordinary debut' ANN PATCHETT

By Lee Cole

Agony and the Ecstasy

By irving stone

The Tudor Wife

By Purdy, Emily

Last Resort: A New York Times Editor's Pick

By Andrew Lipstein

The Hand of the Sun King: The British Fantasy Award-nominated fantasy epic

By J.T. Greathouse

A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery

By Barbara Nadel

Diana: The Ghost Biography

By Emma Tennant, Hillary Bailey

Histories

By Sam Guglani

Leading Men: 'A timeless and heart-breaking love story' Celeste Ng

By Christopher Castellani

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

By Victoria Glendinning

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

By David Lagercrantz

Memoirs Of Hadrian

By Marguerite Yourcenar

Trying: the hilarious novel about what to expect when you're NOT expecting

By Emily Phillips