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by Mark Lawrence
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsTwo strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.
by H.G. Parry
Published Feb 2023
Read ReviewsIn the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry's spellbinding tale of miracles, magic, and the adventure of a lifetime.
by Sigrid Nunez
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsA moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
by Catriona McPherson
Published Apr 2018
Read ReviewsIt's the oldest bookshop in a town full of bookshops; rambling and disordered, full of treasures if you look hard. Jude found one of the treasures when she visited last summer, the high point of a miserable vacation. Now, in the depths of winter, when she has to run away, Lowell's chaotic bookshop in that backwater of a town is the safe place she ...
by Ann Hood
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsAn enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.
by Steven Rowley
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsCombining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart.
by Helen Phillips
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsA young wife's new job in an enigmatic organization pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in this inventive and compulsively page-turning first novel
by Charlie Lovett
Published May 2014
Read Reviews"What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literaturewould that be worth killing for?"
by Haruki Murakami
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's - 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet.
by Mat Johnson
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers
by Andrew Sean Greer
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsAn extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.
by Terry Pratchett
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsPratchett turns his pen on the press, and its power to disseminate and create the truth. The lesser son of one of Ankh most privileged families hits on the brilliant idea of producing his upper-crust newsletter with a newfangled printing press.
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