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List view record 151: The most secret memory of menList view anchor tag for record 151: The most secret memory of men
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The most secret memory of men

Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar, 1990-2024
Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics. Obsessed with d...
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Mr Geography

Parks, Tim2024
Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life. After years of their secret affair, they stepped out together on top of the world, full of delight in one another and in t...
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My favourite mistake

Keyes, Marian2024
Anna has just lost her taste for the big apple. Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she packs it ...
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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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No small thing

McDonald, Orlaine2024
For a year, the three of them live in the flat below Earl's on the Blossom View Estate. Livia, who has been running for long enough to think her past might never catch up with her. But now she's been forced to catch her breath and face the daughter she left behind. Mickey, who is angry: about hav...
List view record 156: The north lightList view anchor tag for record 156: 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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Not a river : a novel

Almada, Selva, 1973-2024
It's not a river, it's this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at the...
List view record 158: Openings : thirteen storiesList view anchor tag for record 158: Openings : thirteen stories
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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 ...
List view record 159: The Oxenbridge KingList view anchor tag for record 159: The Oxenbridge King
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The Oxenbridge King

Paice, Christine2024
Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lost, lonely angel; and Molly Stern - heartbroken, grieving, a bit stroppy and definitely not feeling herself. When the worlds of the lost soul of a King and the angel sent to collect him collide messily with the 21st cen...
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Parasol against the axe

Oyeyemi, Helen2024
.This novel is a holiday, an adventure, a marvel and a guide. It is a story about the lies behind the lies we tell and a city as a living thing, sustained by the lives of its inhabitants. Suffused with warmth and joy, Parasol Against the Axe is a love letter to Prague, and to the art of storytell...
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The peacock and the sparrow : a novel

Berry, I. S. (Ilana S.)2024
Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, he's anxious to dispense with his mission - uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency. But then he meets Almaisa, an enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain...
List view record 162: The perfect couple : a novelList view anchor tag for record 162: The perfect couple : a novel
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The perfect couple : a novel

Hilderbrand, Elin2024
Now a Netflix limited series, from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand comes a "quintessential summer read" (People) about the many ways family can fill our lives with love -- if they don't kill us first. It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride rac...
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A perfect day to be alone

Aoyama, Nanae, 1983-2024
When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they est...
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Playground

Powers, Richard, 1957-2024
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life- Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimmi...
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Precipice

Harris, Robert, 1957-2024
Summer, 1914: A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley -- aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless -- is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of s...
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The proof of my innocence

Coe, Jonathan2024
Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to holidaymakers at Heathrow's Terminal 5. As for her budding plans of becoming a writer, those are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris co...
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Red side story

Fforde, Jasper2024
Jasper Fforde invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depends on what bit of the colour spectrum you can see... It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, th...
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A refiner's fire

Leon, Donna2024
Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the ...
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A sacrifice

Hogg, Nicholas, 1974-2024
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young Japanese man, Koji, a cult survivor, who tells her the s...
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Safe enough : and other stories

Child, Lee2024
Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, featuring assassins, CIA agents, gangsters, and more. A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department's file room. A ruthless killer only ki...
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Safe haven

Chandran, Shankari2024
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering...
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The safekeep

Wouden, Yael van der2024
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. It's fifteen years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Liv...
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Saltblood

De Tores, Francesca2024
In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary's dual existence will take her to a grand house where she'll serve a French mistress; to the n...
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A secret Cornish wish

McNamara, Ali2024
For Frankie and her five best friends growing up on the glorious beaches of Cornwall's St Felix, life couldn't get any better. Late one night, the friends discover an old box washed up on the shores and they learn the tale of the St Felix mermaid who grants wishes to those who find her treasure. ...
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Shadow state

Woodward, M.P.2024
The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Companies are racing to uncover ideal opportunities. Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. And he may have found some in a rare earth m...
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Shy creatures

Chambers, Clare2024
Croydon, 1964: Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil, a charismatic, married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen's home. A thi...
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The silence factory

Collins, Bridget2024
Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world ...
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The silence in between

Ferguson, Josie2024
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby and there is now no way of getting to him... For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Alone in Berlin, a stunning historical debut. The gripping historical debut about a family sepa...
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Small bomb at Dimperley

Evans, Lissa2024
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But 'home' is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And wo...
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The spoiled heart

Sahota, Sunjeev, 1981-2024
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, The Spoiled Heart is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around to...
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