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What Strange Paradise

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More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians,...

What Strange Paradise

This Can Never Not Be Real

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In the unremarkable town of Amberside, the unthinkable has happened: Terrorists have attacked a local festival. No one knows why, and no one knows who the attackers are, but that doesn’t matter....

This Can Never Not Be Real

The Hate U Give

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Starr walks a fine line between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she grew up and the expensive school her parents have sent her to. In each world she is a different person. Then after a party...

The Hate U Give

Us Against You

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'Us Against You' is the sequel to the brilliant 'Beartown.'

The small town is still reeling from an event that tore the isolated community in two. New conflicts begin to arise...

Us Against You

The Clockmaker's Daughter

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My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor. Their...

The Clockmaker's Daughter

The Possible World

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Six year old Ben is the only survivor of a crime that killed his mother and many others.

Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is dealing with her own personal upheaval but feels a profound connection...

The Possible World

Where First Love Blooms

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In 1922 socialite Edith Ballanger is facing a tough decision - life as a trophy wife married to a pompous bore or life with the man she loves, Clyde. The problem is her father disapproves of her...

Where First Love Blooms

The Malinovsky Papers

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Professor Nicholas Malinovsky is contacted by a dying Russian man in 1986 . The man, Dmitri Korshunov tells him a story about the fate of the two youngest Romanov children. The man is very convincing...

The Malinovsky Papers

Only Child

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Six year old Zach Taylor is hidden in a cloakroom with his teacher and classmates listening as a gunman roams the halls of his school. By the time he is done he will have claimed 19 victims....

Only Child

Don't Close Your Eyes

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Robin and Sarah are twin sisters who have grown apart and haven’t seen each other for a number of years.

Robin is agoraphobic and hasn’t left her house in years. She relies on a series...

Don't Close Your Eyes

The Confusion of Languages

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Cassie and Margaret are two American expats living in Jordan a few months after the Arab Spring. Their friendship is one of circumstance, two opposites thrown together in the face of absent husbands....

The Confusion of Languages

Swimming Lessons

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In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her...

Swimming Lessons

Firefly Summer

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A little light can guide you home…

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter’s touching new novel reunites four sisters at their childhood vacation spot on Cape...

Firefly Summer
 
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