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As World War One brings women unexpected new freedoms, bookbinder Peggy has the chance at a new future. 'A wonderful book' Fiona Valpy, author of The Dressmaker's Gift 'Your job is to bind the books, not read them.' When t...

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** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, WAITROSE WEEKEND BEST SUMMER READ** A book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future THE TIMES Feeling anxious, powerless, or confused about the future of our p...

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022** An exhilarating Animal Farm-inspired novel about power and corruption set in an animal nation trapped in a cycle as old as time, by one of the most exciting voices...

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Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids Lytton Strachey Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Kno...

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*A SPECTATOR AND TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 PICK* **A DAILY TELEGRAPH '75 BEST BOOKS OF 2021' PICK** The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the mode...

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Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise. From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up...

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*Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award* **Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the New Statesman** After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father's presence, and th...

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Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing Hollywood set-designer Geo...

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The latest novel in the million-copy selling Simon Serrailler series Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross. It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside Lafferton. It's a drugs overdose but something doesn't...

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***A Best Book of 2022, The Times*** ***Book of the Year, Spectator*** A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective Henrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, ...

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'I adore this book! ... An Experiment in Leisure shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth and what it means to be alive' Maxine Peake 'Can I get a refund?' I asked the bus driver. 'You taking the piss, love?' It's January 2015, and Gra...

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'A frank, funny and long overdue ode to teachers and teaching' Adam Kay 'Hilarious, inspiring and so terrifyingly true' Lucy Kellaway The malodorous horrors of Sports Day. Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening. Refereeing teenage relationship dram...

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Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate ...

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***THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** ***A SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEAR*** FOUR GENERATIONS. THREE SISTERS. ONE DIVIDED NATION. 'Remarkable, haunting, symphonic' New York Times Tricked aboard a boat to East Africa, Pirbhai is only ...

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Laure Grenadier, Herausgeberin des Pariser Gourmet-Magazins Plaisir de table , reist zu Recherchezwecken in die Normandie. Ein Restaurant steht ganz oben auf ihrer Liste: Über die Kalbsschnitzel mit einer ebenso berühmten wie geheimen Sauce muss u...

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Hanns-Josef Ortheil entwirft in seinem Roman "Schwerenöter" ein virtuos geschriebenes Porträt unser Nachkriegsgesellschaft. Der Autor zeichnet darin die Entwicklung jener Generation nach, die kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geboren wurde...

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Ein jüdisches Schicksal im Zweiten Weltkrieg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich - übersetzt von Peter Handke Wie lebt man in einer Landschaft, in der man eigentlich nicht existieren darf? Die Windmühle bei Hamburg, die Savoyer Alpen und die Paris...

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