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List view record 61: A house built on sandList view anchor tag for record 61: A house built on sand
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A house built on sand

Shaw, Tina, 1961-2024
Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files -- and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has her own troubles with memory, a recu...
List view record 62: How to be somebody elseList view anchor tag for record 62: How to be somebody else
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How to be somebody else

Pountney, Miranda2025
On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible – a life in New York. And yet it is not the thing she’d imagined. When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she’s never met, she does not tell her friends, her family, or her boyfriend Matt. But how much ca...
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In memoriam

Winn, Alice (Alice Mary Felicity), 1992-2024
It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle -- an all-consum...
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Juice

Winton, Tim, 1960-2024
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place - middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They're exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a ref...
List view record 65: Kantika : a novelList view anchor tag for record 65: Kantika : a novel
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Kantika : a novel

Graver, Elizabeth, 1964-2024
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika-'song' in Ladino-follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and star...
List view record 66: The Kellerby codeList view anchor tag for record 66: The Kellerby code
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The Kellerby code

Sweet, Jonny, 1985-2024
Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, he has catered to his friends' needs: fetching dry cleaning, sorting flowers for premieres. It's a noble effort, really, anything to keep his best pals Robert and Stanza happy. In return, his proxim...
List view record 67: Letters from the Ginza Shihodo stationery shopList view anchor tag for record 67: Letters from the Ginza Shihodo stationery shop
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Letters from the Ginza Shihodo stationery shop

Ueda, Kenji, 1969-2024
Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks. The shop owner int...
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Life hacks for a Little Alien

Franklin, Alice2025
Little Alien lives with her mum and her dad in the South-East of England. Her mum has a 'how-to' guide for every situation, and her dad is always kind and always right. And there is her best friend Bobby, who coincidentally has a bob. But it is only when Little Alien sees a documentary about the ...
List view record 69: A little trickerie : inspired by true eventsList view anchor tag for record 69: A little trickerie : inspired by true events
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A little trickerie : inspired by true events

Pike, Rosanna2024
Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As she wends...
List view record 70: The lotus shoesList view anchor tag for record 70: The lotus shoes
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The lotus shoes

Yang, Jane (Writer)2025
As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing's wealthy family to become a muizai. In a fit of childish jealousy over her new handmaiden's ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery, Linjing ensures Little Flower can never leave her to ascend in society. Despite their starkly different places i...
List view record 71: The mademoiselle alliance : a novelList view anchor tag for record 71: The mademoiselle alliance : a novel
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The mademoiselle alliance : a novel

Lester, Natasha, 1973-2025
Morocco, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, and it's a trait that not everyone is a fan of - including her husband. Her unconventionalities - rally car driving, flying planes and dabbling in intelligence work for the go...
List view record 72: May you have delicious mealsList view anchor tag for record 72: May you have delicious meals
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May you have delicious meals

Takase, Junko, 1988-2025
The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge... In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kin...
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A messy murder

Brett, Simon2025
Professional declutterer Ellen Curtis doesn't need to like her clients to help them sort their homes out. Aging TV personality and curmudgeon Humphrey Carter might have a chip on his shoulder the size of England about the decline of his career, but a job's a job. But when Ellen arrives the mornin...
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The mires

Makereti, Tina, 1973-2024
Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a herd of buffalo running from a lion, water can b...
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Molly

Ham, Rosalie2024
It's 1914 and Molly Dunnage wants to see change: at home, at work and in underwear. Her burgeoning corsetry business is starting to take off, thanks to some high-profile supporters. She's marching with Melbourne's suffragists for better conditions for women everywhere. And her family - her eccent...
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Monk and robot

Chambers, Becky2025
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of ...
List view record 77: More or less MaddyList view anchor tag for record 77: More or less Maddy
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More or less Maddy

Genova, Lisa2025
Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it's normal to be feeling overwhelmed. It doesn't help that she's always felt like the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy's ...
List view record 78: Mothers and sons : a novelList view anchor tag for record 78: Mothers and sons : a novel
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Mothers and sons : a novel

Haslett, Adam2025
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierce...
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Moving on

Meaney, Roisin2025
As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown. In Galway she takes a job in a bookshop, and somewhere between the dusty bookshelves and the quiet afternoons, a bookseller called Ben finds a place in her heart. Fast forward, and the bright l...
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Napalm in the heart

Guasch, Pol, 1997-2024
In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire. In a series of impassioned d...
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Nero

Iggulden, Conn2025
Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor. Then his whole family. Next all his friends. It is as if he never existed. Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is no protection. The closer you are to the heart ...
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Nesting

O'Donnell, Roisin
In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. G...
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A new chapter at the Borrow a Bookshop

Dunbar, Kiley2025
Will her new love story be the one she's read before? A decade after they said goodbye after graduation, old friends Harri and Annie reunite in the beautiful village of Clove Lore in Devon - what more could these bookworms want than a holiday running the tumbledown bookshop? Unbeknownst to Annie,...
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The new kingdom

Smith, Wilbur A., 1933-2021
In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful facades, a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret...
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Nightingale

Elvery, Laura2025
Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor: a young man named Silas Bradley, who claim...
List view record 86: The north lightList view anchor tag for record 86: The north light
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The north light

Yokoyama, Hideo, 1957-2024
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prize-winning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage ...
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Nothing serious : a novel

Smith, Emily J.2025
Edie Walker's life is not going as planned. At thirty-five she feels stuck: in her career, in her love life, and in her tiny San Francisco studio apartment. It doesn't help that her best friend, Peter Masterson, is basically the über successful male version of her - and she's hopelessly, unrequit...
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Open season

Kellerman, Jonathan2025
In the middle of the night, Detective Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is called to a Westside hospital. A young woman has been left dead at the entrance to the E.R. Milo soon identifies the victim as an aspiring actress, and evidence points him in the direction of a Hollywood misfit with an arrest record...
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Openings : thirteen stories

Caldwell, Lucy, 1981-2024
'I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.' From a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the ...
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The original daughter

Wei, Jemimah2025
Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they...
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