Christmas 2025: Fiction

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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…

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A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of…

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‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is…

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Translated by Yui KajitaOver 24 million copies of The Samurai Detective series have been sold in Japan. Shotaro Ikenami's unique blend of cosy intrigue and rich historical setting has made him one of Japan's most beloved authors.It has…

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From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel…

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In July 1857, Angus MacPhee bludgeoned to death his parents and aunt on the Hebridean island of Benbecula. Five years later, Angus's brother Malcolm recounts the events leading up to the murders while trying to keep a grip on his own…

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'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express'The man is a genius' The Spectator----Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do.Slow horse River…

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Translated by Sophie Hughes Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish…

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If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the…

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Translated by Hazel EvansThe hotly anticipated translation of the winner of the Danish Critics Prize and the Native Language PrizeEverything is mine and is taken from me.That’s what it means to be a girl.Highly acclaimed in…

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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but…

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Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in full swing – its mission is to become the greatest business park in the region. Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter at ‘bring your daughter to work…

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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come…

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A private eye is catapulted on to a riotous and continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape – the new novel from Thomas PynchonMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the…