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The Death's Head Chess Club

John Donoghue

RRP: £9.99

Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven’t seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once k …

A Want of Kindness

Joanne Limburg

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Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association debut novel award 2016.Every time I see the King and the Queen, I am reminded of what it is I have done, and then I am afraid, I am beyond all express …

Brother's Keeper

C. E. Smith

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Struck off and hooked on prescription pills, disgraced American surgeon Ryan Burkett flies to the war-torn Middle East to identify his murdered twin’s body. Staring down at the lifeless form in the mo …

The Looking Glass House

Vanessa Tait

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LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARDOxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend …

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

Kim Leine

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A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged novel that has garlanded critical acclaim throughout Europe and won the prestigious Nordic Council’s Literature Prize.Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly orda …

The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler

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For fans of The Night Circus, comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse.Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Isl …

Himmler's Cook

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

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Aged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships: the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and the delirium of Maoism. Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie …

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Vendela Vida

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‘Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar… (It’s also insanely funny.)’ — Lena DunhamFrom the …

Heaven Forbid

Christopher Hope

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In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extend …

Jimfish

Christopher Hope

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and ther …

Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEDamon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the Booker Pr …

The Quarry

Damon Galgut

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA breathtaking parable of death and deception from the Booker Prize-winning author.Damon Galgut’s ‘lost’ novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outsi …

When the Doves Disappeared

Sofi Oksanen

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army – Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his sli …

Kruger's Alp

Christopher Hope

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Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an …

The Lives of Women

Christine Dwyer Hickey

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The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.’One of Ireland’s most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her sto …

Too Weird for Ziggy

Sylvie Simmons

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Sylvie Simmons’ fiction debut, Too Weird for Ziggy is a darkly comic collection of linked stories all set in the world of crass A & R men, fans mired in hero worship, and music stars perpetually on th …

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