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Groundskeeping: 'An extraordinary debut' ANN PATCHETT

By Lee Cole

Agony and the Ecstasy

By irving stone

Drowned Hopes: A Dortmunder Mystery

By Donald E. Westlake

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

By Victoria Glendinning

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

By David Lagercrantz

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

By Christopher Castellani

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

By Emily Phillips

The Tudor Wife

By Purdy, Emily

Histories

By Sam Guglani

Diana: The Ghost Biography

By Emma Tennant, Hillary Bailey

A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery

By Barbara Nadel

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

By J.T. Greathouse

Last Resort: A New York Times Editor's Pick

By Andrew Lipstein

Climbers: A Novel

By M. John Harrison, Robert Macfarlane

The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?

By Elizabeth Lowry

The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?

By Elizabeth Lowry

Bernard and Pat

By Blair James

No Country for Love: 'A sweeping romantic epic' Hari Kunzru

By Yaroslav Trofimov

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

Still Life

By Sarah Winman

After Darke

By Rick Gekoski

Cecily: An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses

By Annie Garthwaite

BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

By Karen Joy Fowler

Coffee with Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland, Simon Callow

Shadows and Strongholds

By Chadwick, Elizabeth

Why Mummy Doesn't Give a ****!

By Gill Sims

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

By Alison Weir

Diary of an Oxygen Thief

By Anonymous

The Paper Lantern

By Will Burns

The Glass-Blowers

By Daphne Du Maurier, Michelle de Kretser