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The latest short collection from J.H. Prynne, Parkland (Critical Documents), is available by mail order from the Bookshop now, and continues the poet's remarkable run of recent work. Extending ...

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The Independent Bookshop exclusive edition of The Mirror and the Light includes exclusive material from Hilary Mantel about, amongst other things, the books that inspired the ...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER ...

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you’ve never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, ...

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A book about a friendship between two quiet men who like board games and comfortable silences. It is, from the first paragraph, extremely funny (‘Leonard was raised by his ...

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A portrait of modern urban living, Patrick Langley’s debut ARKADY is a brilliant coming-of-age novel as brimming with vitality as the city itself.

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Claire-Louise Bennett explores the surreal portraiture of Dorothea Tanning. A chance encounter with an exhibition of Tanning’s works in Madrid reawakens a kinship between ...

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Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey – and finds herself accepting and rejecting ...

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Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature.

‘If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human ...