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• Solace House

  Maclean, Will

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  It is 1993. Alex Lane cannot go home after university, but is rescued from an empty summer by the chance to join a group of students clearing out a grandiose Victorian house set in remote countryside. Gothic horror meets dark academia in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Fantasy

  Straub, Emma

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  Annie, still reeling from her divorce, goes on a fan cruise for the boyband she loved as a teenager. This is a smart, compassionate story about midlife reckonings and what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true in adulthood.

• Black Bag

  Kennard, Luke

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  An actor picks up a job working for a professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will his students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babylon, South Dakota

  a Novel

  Lin, Tom, 1996-

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  A beguiling tale of a secret U.S. military program and its strange effects on a family of Chinese immigrants.

• Permanence

  Mackintosh, Sophie

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  Clara and Francis, a pair of clandestine lovers wake one day in an apartment they don’t recognize. It turns out that they’ve been transported to a sanctuary city where adulterous couples can live out in the open, devoting themselves to one another.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goodbye Chinatown

  Fan, Kit

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  Set in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, Goodbye Chinatown shows a family torn between two countries. Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions.

• Villa Coco /

  Greer, Andrew Sean

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  A coming-of-age novel, a love story and a tale of life-enhancing Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer showcases his wit, sophistication and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical tale set amidst the Tuscan hills.

• All Grown Up

  Buchanan, Daisy (Journalist)

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  A hilarious and heartwarming new novel inspired by Little Women, perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Jojo Moyes.

• Make Strange

  Campbell, Niamh (Niamh Frances)

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  It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember when I died?'

• Sisters of Hope Square

  Hogan, Faith

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  A wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive.