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Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

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The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

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Discover this beautiful special edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory on human evolution.

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Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.

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Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.

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Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

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Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the...

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte.

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Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

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Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

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‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

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