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The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Div...

Sarah May

The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva

The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back!Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road…On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait…The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed cradle of learning. How far will these women go to...

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Sarah May

One Thing Led to Another

Katy Regan

One Thing Led to Another

A smart, punchy, poignant and achingly funny debut based on Katy Regan’s hugely popular Marie Claire column And then there were three…sort of.Tess Jarvis’ rules for life have always been somewhatrelaxed…1.Never go to bed before your last guest has leftTess and Gina's flat has a jacuzzi so it's the obvious location for a party … every night2.Make great friends and keep them closeThough not actually in your bed. Tess and Jim’s claims that they are ‘just good friends’ has everyone’s eyes...

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Katy Regan

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine...

Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut Sunday Times Bestseller and Costa First Novel Book Award winner 2017

The Sunday Times bestseller‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo MoyesEleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to liveEleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls...

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Gail Honeyman

Dancing in Limbo

Edward Toman

Dancing in Limbo

Oliver Cromwell McCoy, God’s man in Ulster, has stumbled into the radio age. With a crumbling transmitter left over from the Titanic he has taken to blasting the countryside with his inimitable brand of mendacious evangelism.His old adversary across the Shambles, Cardinal Schnozzle O’Shea, is determined to go one better. He needs a good-looking priest to anchor the great TV chat show he believes will get Ireland back on its knees. When his eye lights on young Frank Feely, authoritarianism and...

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Edward Toman

Match Me If You Can

Michele Gorman

Match Me If You Can

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a warm, funny story of brilliant women, recycled exes and the power of best friends.Catherine's ex-husband and business partner drops a bombshell over their Chardonnay: he’s about to marry his twenty-three year old girlfriend. Catherine has bras that are older than his new fiancée, yet he’s about to install her in Catherine’s beloved matchmaking business.Meanwhile, architect Rachel is battling romantic mistake, James, to win their firm’s biggest...

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Michele Gorman

The Not So Perfect Mum: The feel-go...

Кэрри Фишер

The Not So Perfect Mum: The feel-good novel you have to read this year!

A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Neill and Gill Hornby’s ‘The Hive’.Previously published as ‘The Class Ceiling’.Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next.But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School – a place where no child can survive without organic...

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Кэрри Фишер

Heart Songs

Энни Пру

Heart Songs

A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.Just outside town, beyond the drugstore and the diner, there's another world – a wilderness – waiting to be explored. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; far upriver there are quiet pools of trout, and grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. In the far-flung settlements of New England,...

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Энни Пру

The One Before The One

Katy Regan

The One Before The One

A contemporary love story told with Katy's inimitable laugh-out-loud humour, poignancy and heart.TO DO LISTMake something with QuinoaPluck eyebrowsDo something 'cultural' every weekDump married boyfriendCaroline's life was meant to be sorted when she made the decision to end her engagement, 3 months before the big day. With her to-do list tasks getting crossed off and her career going great guns, Caroline is sure she's now a fully functioning adult. So when her 17 year old half-sister Lexi,...

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Katy Regan

The Good Divorce Guide

Cristina Odone

The Good Divorce Guide

The story of feisty mother, Rosie Martin, who is determined to manage her divorce in the best way possible.When Rosie Martin discovers that Jonathan, her husband of 15 years, is having an affair, she feels that her world is falling apart. That is, until she realises that she's actually fallen out of love with him, too. So Rosie and Jonathan decide to go their separate ways, determined to be civilised about their divorce, for the sake of the children – in short, to have a 'good divorce'…But even...

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Cristina Odone

The Switch

Olivia Goldsmith

The Switch

From the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller, a witty social satire of love, marriage, and the games men and women play with each other.Sylvie knows she has a lot to be thankful for. So what if her husband, Bob, is only interested in what she has to say ‘in four words or less’? The kids are off to college, and she is sure her marriage is about to bloom again. In fact it has already, but not with her. When Sylvie confronts Bob’s mistress, she is amazed: except for a gap of...

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Olivia Goldsmith

The New Republic

Lionel Shriver

The New Republic

A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk About Kevin.Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to...

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Lionel Shriver

Snow in May

Kseniya Melnik

Snow in May

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe stories of Kseniya Melnik’s debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic.Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, and the unvisited lives of its inhabitants and emigrants – schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of their stories span decades and continents. The measure of their telling, though, is invariably the measure of everyday existence. Their...

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Kseniya Melnik

The Winter Helen Dropped By

W. Kinsella P.

The Winter Helen Dropped By

From the author of Shoeless Joe, the book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, «every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,»The Winter Helen Dropped Byis a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence,...

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W. Kinsella P.

Watching Me, Watching You

Fay Weldon

Watching Me, Watching You

A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.‘Watching Me, Watching You’ was Fay Weldon’s first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, ‘Alopecia’, can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in...

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Fay Weldon

This is the Life

Joseph O’Neill

This is the Life

The debut novel from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.James Jones is slipping steadily through life. He has a steady job as a junior partner at a solicitor's firm, a steady girlfriend and a steady mortgage. Nothing much is happening in Jones's life but he really doesn't mind – this is exactly the way he likes it.Michael Donovan, meanwhile, is a star – a world-class international lawyer and advocate – he's everything Jones wanted to...

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Joseph O’Neill

Vacant Possession

Hilary Mantel

Vacant Possession

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day’.Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic.It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and...

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Hilary Mantel

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That H...

Jon McGregor

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers.A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do.Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon,...

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Jon McGregor

Popular Music

Микаель Ниеми

Popular Music

‘A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests – and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from “the Nick Hornby of the Arctic”.’ Marina Warner, Sunday TimesIts the 1960s, and pop records are gradually finding their way into the eager hands of teenagers in the far north of Sweden. Young Matti dreams of being a rock star – but in the tiny ice-bound village of Pajala, a boy should really spend his time cultivating more manly pursuits, such as hunting elk, drinking...

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Микаель Ниеми

Wish Upon a Star

Olivia Goldsmith

Wish Upon a Star

From the bestselling author of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB comes a sparkling romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Candace Bushnell.For Claire, a secretary from Staten Island who takes the ferry each morning into Manhattan, it’s spent working 9 to 5 at a law firm, reading romantic novels, desperately wishing that her life could be as full of excitement as the heroines featured. That is until she is offered her the chance of a trip to London – all expenses paid.When Claire sets foot on British soil she...

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Olivia Goldsmith

The Happiness Recipe

Stella Newman

The Happiness Recipe

Previously published as LeftoversA wonderfully uplifting novel about friendship, hope and the power of pasta.According to a magazine, Susie is a ‘Leftover’ – a post-Bridget Jones 30 something who has neither her dream man, job, nor home. She doesn’t even own six matching dinner plates.According to her friend Rebecca, Susie needs to get over her ex, Jake, start online dating – or at least stop being so rude to every guy who tries to chat her up.But Susie’s got a plan. If she can just make it the...

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Stella Newman

The Used World

Haven Kimmel

The Used World

Narrated with warmth and intelligence, ‘The Used World’ is the third novel from the bestselling author of ‘The Solace of Leaving Early’ and explores the interconnected lives of three women who work in an antiques emporium in IndianaHazel Hunnicutt is the proprietor of The Used World Emporium, a cavernous antiques store filled with the cast-offs of countless lives in the town of Jonah, Indiana. Knowing, witty and often infuriatingly stubborn, Hazel has lived in the town her whole life, daughter...

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Haven Kimmel

Too Good to Be True

Kristan Higgins

Too Good to Be True

When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for.To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up.Who is this Mr. Right? Someone…exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart. Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man!...

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Kristan Higgins

Wishes Under The Willow Tree: The f...

Phaedra Patrick

Wishes Under The Willow Tree: The feel-good book of 2018

Praise for Phaedra Patrick:‘A feel-good story with oodles of charm’ Daily Mail‘Eccentric, charming and wise, this will illuminate your heart’ Nina GeorgeFor generations, the Stone family have been making wishes on the old willow tree in their garden. And this year they’re wishing harder than ever…In the small village of Noon Sun, Benedict and Estelle thought they’d found their happy ever after. But, unable to have the children they’ve longed for, their marriage has hit the rocks and Estelle has...

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Phaedra Patrick

The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink

The Wallcreeper

‘Heady and rambunctious … Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical underpinnings and political agenda. I'll pay it the highest compliment it knows – this book is a wild thing.’ New York Times Book ReviewInterlaken, Berne, 21st century. Several things happen after the car hits the rock. Tiff ceases to be pregnant. Stephen captures, like, the most wonderful bird – fleet, stealthy, and beautiful – a real “lifer”. And the wallcreeper, the wallcreeper says...

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Nell Zink

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