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  • The Children of Hiroshima
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    The Children of Hiroshima

    Sadako Teiko Okuda

    The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested to see if I could walk with my injured foot. When I did, he came to stand...
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  • The Swimmer of Auschwitz
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    The Swimmer of Auschwitz

    Renaud Leblond

    'Propulsive... Readers will be hooked' -Publishers WeeklyBASED ON THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF ALFRED NAKACHE, SUBJECT OF THE *OSCAR NOMINATED* SHORT FILM PAPILLONAlfred Nakache, a Jewish child...
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  • Astronaut!
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    Astronaut!

    Oana Aristide

    Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man-eating bear that is terrorising the country.Amidst the daily drudge of work, rationing and...
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    Night Travelers
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    Night Travelers

    Armando Lucas Correa

    Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the internationally...
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  • Last Days of Kira Mullan
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    Last Days of Kira Mullan

    Nicci French

    The unputdownable thriller from the author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? She thinks it was murder. But if she can’t trust herself, how can anyone else? For a...
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  • It Girl
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    It Girl

    Ruth Ware

    THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive — my favourite Ruth Ware yet’ LUCY FOLEY Everyone wanted her life Someone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April’s body ten...
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  • Leave No Trace
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    Leave No Trace

    Jo Callaghan

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association ILP John Creasey (New...
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  • Gold Bug Variations
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    Gold Bug Variations

    Powers, Richard

    From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory and Bewilderment 'A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Powers has...
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    Augustus The Strong

    Blanning, Tim

    A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign. Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the...
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  • Once and Future Riot
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    Once and Future Riot

    Sacco, Joe

    From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today...
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  • Dressing the Queen
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    Dressing the Queen

    Strasdin, Kate

    Royal laundresses, corset-makers and professional feather curlers: the hidden story of the people who designed, sewed, stitched and steamed the clothes of Britain's queens, from Victoria to the...
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  • Filthy Rich
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    Filthy Rich

    Patterson, James

    So shocking it wasn't originally published - available for the first time in the UK. Filthy Rich is the definitive account of how Jeffrey Epstein used money, power and privilege to abuse girls and...
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  • This Cursed House
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    This Cursed House

    Sandeen, Del

    A young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: they're under a curse In the fall of 1962, Jemma...
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  • Burning Questions
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    Burning Questions

    Atwood, Margaret

    An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood The Sunday Times bestselling collection of funny, endlessly curious...
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  • Zone of Interest
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    Zone of Interest

    Amis, Martin

    The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found...
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    Faces

    Ditlevsen, Tove

    New to Penguin Modern Classics: a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three,...
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  • Porcupines
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    Porcupines

    Fabriczki, Fran

    Curtis Sittenfeld meets Katherine Heiny in this irresistible debut about mothers and daughters, the things we carry with us, and those we leave behind Los Angeles, 2001. Sonia is raising her...
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  • Crazy Kill
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    Crazy Kill

    Himes, Chester

    A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abounds Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short...
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  • Last Stand at Saber River
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    Last Stand at Saber River

    Leonard, Elmore

    A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN. In Last Stand at Sabre River, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on...
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  • Decoded
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    Decoded

    Jia, Mai

    The international bestseller by China's foremost thriller writer Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world. A mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to...
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  • Valdez is Coming
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    Valdez is Coming

    Leonard, Elmore

    No writer chronicles the battles of misfits, underdogs and renegades like Elmore Leonard ... Valdez is Coming is a stunning tale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is transformed...
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  • Shankill Butchers
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    Shankill Butchers

    Dillon, Martin

    The bestselling non-fiction book from the definitive writer on Ireland's tumultuous past. A gruesome investigation into one of Britain's most brutal and horrifying murder cases, perpetuated by the...
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  • Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
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    Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

    J. W. Rinzler

    "The Shining may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says, 'Tuesday,'" proclaimed The New York Times. Never has a film evoked so much dread in its audience...
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  • Justice for the Forgotten Families of 9/11
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    Justice for the Forgotten Families of 9/11

    McMillan, Tom

    Nearly twenty-five years after 9/11, the families of the victims are still waiting for justice. The president of the United States said in a dramatic speech at the White House that the families of...
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  • Sacred Pens and Public Voices
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    Sacred Pens and Public Voices

    Wilkinson, Lori Motzkus

    In the view of many Latter-day Saint women, the religious restoration propounded by Joseph Smith unleashed forces important to female progress. Lori Motzkus Wilkinson examines how LDS women used...
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  • Robert Doisneau
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    Robert Doisneau

    Jean Claude Gautrand

    As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the Photographie humaniste that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in...
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  • Sappers' War
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    Sappers' War

    Thomson, Jimmy

    They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against...
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  • Bluebird
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    Bluebird

    Knox, Malcolm

    A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart. ...
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  • Courage in the Skies
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    Courage in the Skies

    Eames, Jim

    Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
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  • Exile
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    Exile

    Worrall, Patrick

    The prequel to break-out debut phenomenon, The Partisan, following a young Greta as she journeys into the dark underbelly of France to rescue her lieutenant's missing daughter, Morta. 'An espionage...
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  • Ghosts Of Rome
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    Ghosts Of Rome

    O'Connor, Joseph

    The Contessa Giovanna Landini takes on Gestapo chief Paul Hauptmann in a daring mission in Occupied Rome 'Thrilling, terrifying and entertaining in equal measure' Liz Nugent, Number One Bestselling...
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  • Upside-Down World
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    Upside-Down World

    Moser, Benjamin

    A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this...
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  • Song of a Blackbird Song of a Blackbird
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    Song of a Blackbird

    van Lieshout, Maria

    FIVE STARRED REVIEWS! A Michael L. Printz Honor Book A National Book Award Longlist Selection A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR for Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Horn Book,...
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  • Sense and Sensibility
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    Sense and Sensibility

    Austen, Jane

    Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised...
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  • Descent into Hell
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    Descent into Hell

    Brune, Peter

    'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the kindness...
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  • Good Living Street
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    Good Living Street

    Bonyhady, Tim

    WINNER, NSW Premier's History Awards WINNER, NSW Premier's Literary Awards '.a book so rich in texture, so full of artistic and visual detail, that a whole lost central European world, and...
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  • Tunnel Rats
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    Tunnel Rats

    Thomson, Jimmy

    'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is you never know what's around the bend . You don't...
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  • Mawson in Antarctica
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    Mawson in Antarctica

    Grochowicz, Joanna

    Antarctica. Winter 1912. Hunkering down in the windiest place on earth, eighteen young Australians eagerly await a chance to prove themselves as polar explorers and scientists. The spring sledging...
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  • Bastard of a Place
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    Bastard of a Place

    Brune, Peter

    'Here is that marriage of good writing to good scholarship that one seldom comes upon. Peter Brune's prose crackles and sparkles and he has done the hard work on the ground. You can smell the jungle...
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  • Red Lead
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    Red Lead

    Perry, Roland

    Just after midnight on 1 March 1942, Australia's most renowned cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Java. Of the 681 men aboard, 328 survived...
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  • Thousand Blues
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    Thousand Blues

    Seon-Ran, Cheon

    From a massive rising star in the world of Korean female sci-fi comes the gripping, heartrending tale of how two sisters train a worn-out racehorse to run the slowest race of its life - for fans of...
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  • White Earth
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    White Earth

    McGahan, Andrew

    WINNER, Miles Franklin Literary Award WINNER, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region WINNER, Age Book of the Year WINNER, Courier Mail Book of the Year Award...
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  • Zorg
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    Zorg

    Kara, Siddartha

    The riveting tale of the 18th century slave ship voyage of the Zorg that led to the abolition of slavery. 'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York Times * PEN...
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