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Nuclear War

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Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen.

This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next.

It has to be read to be believed.

Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller...

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Nuclear War

The Black Crescent

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Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson's masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties...

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The Black Crescent

Best of Friends

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Best of Friends is a novel about Britain today, about power and how we use it, and about what we owe to those who've loved us the longest.

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Best of Friends

The Telling

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Can the ghosts of the past be forcing their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?

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The Telling

Just Like You

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The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster.

Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You...

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Just Like You

The Handmaid’s Tale

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Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.

Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new...

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Those Who Are Loved

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Athens 1941. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade.

Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these...

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Those Who Are Loved

Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture is a collection of essays edited by Roxane Gay. Each essay deals with the topics of sexual harassment, violence and rape and the way it is emphasised in...

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Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture

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...

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White Houses

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In 1933, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt moved into the White House and with them moved journalist Lorena Hickock. Known as Hick to her friends, Lorena tells the story of her passionate relationship...

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White Houses

Macbeth

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In the wake of the death of the former corrupt police commisioner the new chief of police is determined to replace his old cronies with people he knows to be trustworthy. He needs a new head of...

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Macbeth

Red Clocks

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In 'Red Clocks' a law has been passed making abortion illegal in America and IVF has been banned because embryo's cannot agree to the process. In light of these changes four women must...

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Red Clocks

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...

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The Malinovsky Papers
 
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