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The King and the Slave

Tim Leach

RRP: £8.99

Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus’s army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king’s son and heir Cambyses, who has inherite …

The Changeling

Kenzaburo Oe

Kogito is a writer, and is in his sixties when he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law Goro. Goro sends Kogito a number of cassette tapes onto which he has recorded refle …

The Chef

Martin Suter

RRP: £8.99

A huge international bestseller – The Chef is a thriller and a love story that has gripped readers across Europe

The Incorrigible Optimists Club

Jean-Michel Guenassia

RRP: £12.99

The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a huge, exhilarating whirlwind of first love, radical art, colonial war, progressive politics, Chuck Berry and chain-smoking intellectuals.Paris, 1959. As dusk settl …

More Than It Hurts You

Darin Strauss

RRP: £8.99

Will this hurt me…more than it hurts you?Josh and Dori Goldin are the perfect couple. And they have a perfect baby boy: he is eight months old, he has blue eyes and tawny hair, and no, he hasn’t sta …

Orfeo

Richard Powers

RRP: £9.99

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORYLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDComposer Pete …

Summer House with Swimming Pool

Herman Koch

RRP: £6.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDA doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy …

The Dinner

Herman Koch

RRP: £10.99

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THAT’S GOT EVERYONE TALKING…A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of …

Torch

Cheryl Strayed

RRP: £8.99

A searing and luminous novel of a family’s grief after unexpected loss, from the author of the huge bestseller Wild.”Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!” is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the l …

Ajax Penumbra

Robin Sloan

RRP: £17.00

The utterly charming prequel to the New York Times-bestseller Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore. San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra has …

Based on a True Story

Elizabeth Renzetti

RRP: £7.99

It might not have happened precisely that way… Fresh out of rehab, badly behaved diva Augusta Price has one last chance to turn her life around. Her memoir, Based on a True Story, has become an unli …

The Confabulist

Steven Galloway

RRP: £8.99

A masterful re-imagining of the lives and loves of Harry Houdini, from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo.The whole world knows me as the man who killed Harry Houdin …

Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan

RRP: £9.99

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND BELOVED MOVIE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!’Mordantly funny’ Anna Wintour’A roller coaster trip’ Jackie Collins’A book version of …

The Bird Skinner

Alice Greenway

RRP: £12.99

It is 1973. Jim Kennoway, a distinguished ornithologist and Second World War veteran, has just left his work at the Natural History Museum in New York, turned his back on his family and retreated to a …

The Assistant

Bernard Malamud

RRP: £9.99

Time magazine’s ‘All-Time list of 100 Novels’Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank be …

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud

RRP: £10.99

Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book AwardKiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelle …

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