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Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness, THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT unwraps the extraordinary gift of life, and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love when we need them most. VOTED BEST UPLIFTING BOOK BY THE INDEPENDENT 'Emotional, involvin...

Fintan O'Toole Ireland's leading public intellectual and author of Heroic Failure tells a history of Ireland in his own time a brilliant interweaving of memoir and historical narrative. Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958, and so his life covers Ireland's journey out of underdevelopment and dominati...

Mark Smith presents the ultimate moral dilemma in a breathtaking psychological thriller. Would you try to save them? 'First rule of rescue: don't create another casualty.' Grace Disher is about to face every teacher's worst nightmare. Three of her students are going to die. On a high school c...

Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose.Meticulous and driven Gwen Gilmore knows what she wants… especially in a man. She is newly single and doesn’t have time for lackluster chemistry or mixed signals. But the dating scene proves to be slow and unserious, and she realizes she ...

An intoxicatingly strange, prize-winning Finnish novel about the disruption that follows when a man welcomes a peculiar troll into his life__________'Chillingly seductive' Independent'Blame global warming, but trolls are moving out of legend to scavage at the outskirts of Finnish cities... Sinisa...

King's Gold Medal for PoetryMimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed ...

A dark and gripping new short story collection from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 'A marvel of a collection' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time ‘A consummate storyteller’ New York Times 'There is nothing more terrifying than the monster...

Toda relación tiene un comienzo. Ésta tiene dos finales.De la autora del bestseller internacional Todo lo que sé sobre el amor. Más de 1 millón de ejemplares vendidos.La voz de la generación millennial.Andy está enamorado de Jen. Jen estaba enamorada de Andy.Y él no entiende por qué ella ha dejad...

A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks. Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty str...

A Guardian Best Science Book of the YearThe first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Throu...