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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEARThe first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.Kendall has failed ..

Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before."Everything Handmaids wear ..

    Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.     By turns com..

FROM THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR BEHIND EMMY- AND GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING HBO SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES AND SMASH-HIT NOVEL THE HUSBAND'S SECRETIf you know anyone who loves Big Little Lies then the bestselling author's latest book will be right up their street - a tale of perfect lies and imperfec..

The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project and Davi..

The number 1 European bestseller by the author of the international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances. The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenome..

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, BernadetteHeartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmo..

Fearlessly frank and funny, the debut adult novel from Dawn O’Porter is the book that everybody needs to read right now.COW [n.]A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd.Three women. A whole world of judgement.Tara, Cam and Stella are very different women..

That’s what he wants you to think…A good mother doesn’t forget things.A good mother isn’t a danger to herself.A good mother isn’t a danger to her baby.You want to be the good mother you dreamed you could be.But you’re not. You’re the bad mother you were destined to become.At ..

* Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2017* Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018* No.1 Sunday Times bestseller* Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon`Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo MoyesEleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive ..

A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year`Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, w..

'This novel is a rich harvest; it moves with the strange and flawless certainty of a dream ... It is superbly written, and its madness is also its strength.' --- Edna O'BrienFrancis Newton Xavier has lived a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision. His painting..