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The dark academia bestseller that defined an age Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic,...

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Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY...

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The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant...

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised...

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A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that reads like The Handmaid's Tale...

The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers...

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover...

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THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times...

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'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My...

Minor Detail revolves around a brutal crime committed one year after the War of 1948,...

'THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE' - Guardian NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WHICH WILL...

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian...

'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Everything that...

'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel...

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Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended...

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