Christmas 2026: Fiction
Selected by the Bookshop
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From the writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah EinbinderHow far would you go to bring back the only person who ever felt like home?'No synopsis can possibly…
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'The future of literature is in exceptional, inspired hands'Michael Cunningham, author of Day'Extraordinary . . . so remarkable'Daily Telegraph'The debut everyone's talking about'Daily Mail'One of the best new books I've read not only this…
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'Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder' MARK HADDON'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON'A real feat... the writing really, really pops' JEM CALDERA mesmerising portrait of an ageing man's…
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Ingeborg Bachmann’s short fiction – each piece a razor-sharp feminist masterpiece, as urgent as a confession – arrives here in full force. This major collection draws together all the stories Bachmann wrote over her…
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MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .'The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of…
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From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades.'I am a big Emily St. John Mandel fanboy' - George R.R. Martin2031. America is…
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Tara Selter has become someone new.It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless…
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Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three children – Bo, DH and Mido…
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After three years spent studying abroad, Ada returns to her rural village and is once again driving around with Vicenc Jr. and coming home giddy late in the summer night. She spends long days recounting stories and inventing some of her…
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Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize winner Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise. In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a young musical virtuoso comes of age. John Field is…
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, BBC CULTURE, THE MIRROR AND RADIO TIMESThe Sunday Times number one bestselling author returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller - coming August 2026.'A master storyteller'…
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Inspired by the life and work of Emily Bronte, this masterful, multi-award-winning book - acclaimed as the best Dutch novel published this century - pulls readers into a narrative that redefines time itself. …
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On a remote Aegean island, the billionaire Thanassis Morel is building the Floating World: a climate-controlled utopia beneath a vast geodesic dome, promising refuge for the ultra-wealthy from the chaos consuming the outside world.…
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From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern…
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In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on…
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* AVAILABLE WHILE STOCKS LAST - LIMITED FIRST EDITION: featuring an exclusive hidden cover *AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2026'Prepare to see this everywhere.' Elle'I was totally invested.' Saba Sams'I was utterly enthralled.' Leslie…
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'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families -…
Recommended by Liv
The Wax Child - the narrator of this novel - gives their account of a 17th-century witch trial and bears testament to human folly, the persecution of women and the solidarity of these “victims of untruth”. Ravn's novel reads like one long incantation – it's deeply unsettling and eery – but there's also a sense of humour rooted in its irony.
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