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• Belgrave Road

  Chauhan, Manish

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  An unforgettable debut novel about two young people searching for better lives, and the blossoming forbidden romance between them that threatens their families and futures

• Lean Cat, Savage Cat

  Joseph, Lauren J.

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  A riotous and raunchy novel about a woman whose search for Romy Haag, one of David Bowie’s former lovers, is sidelined when she falls into a deep obsession with a musician, who is often compared to Bowie, in pursuit of stardom

• This Is Not About Us

  Fiction

  Goodman, Allegra

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  A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family, steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving from the bestselling author of Isola

• The Dice Was Loaded From the Start

  Annand, David

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  The Dice Was Loaded from the Start asks: what does the good life look like? And how might we make meaning in an exhausted world?

• Our Numbered Bones

  Balen, Katya

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  A grieving author who heads to rural England for a writer's retreat, only to stumble upon an incredible historical find. As the past and present collide, she'll discover the key to healing her trauma.

• Meet the Newmans

  a Novel

  Niven, Jennifer

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  For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their children have ruled TV as “America’s Favourite Family”. But when ratings plummet and Del gets in a mysterious car accident, Dinah takes matters into her own hands, hiring an outspoken young reporter to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Best Offer Wins

  Kashino, Marisa

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  Margo, worn down by eighteen months of failed house‑hunting, becomes obsessed with securing the one home she thinks will save her life. Her desperation pushes her into increasingly dubious behaviour as she does whatever it takes to get it.

• The Emotions

  Toussaint, Jean-Philippe, 1957-

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  An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father’s death, in this “brilliant, nuanced” novel of love, politics, masculinity and memory.

• The Truth About Ruby Cooper

  Nugent, Liz, 1967-

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  Ruby and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family's world to implode. Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Book Made Me Think of You

  Page, Libby

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  Twelve stories. Twelve months... When Tilly receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn't come as more of a shock. Partly, because she can't remember the last time she read a…Read moreRead more of this annotation