Christmas 2024: Fiction
Selected by the Bookshop
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'GUARDIAN'Stunning... An uplifting book'SUNDAY TIMESA team of…
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A stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britain's finest novelists.A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New…
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The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith‘Miraculous . . . tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting. A ray of hope’ Paul Murray, Irish TimesOnce upon a time,…
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The instant bestseller, loved by critics and readers around the world: the biggest debut of 2024, now in a new paperback edition. The sensational Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the…
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An exhilarating winter tale of two sisters drawn into a new life of risk, passion and possibility, from the Sunday Times bestseller.‘Tessa Hadley is my favourite author’ KATE ATKINSONOn a winter Saturday night in…
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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesIn September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its…
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The latest novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZETHE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE…
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An immensely powerful and bitingly satirical retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim.'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of…
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Translated by Polly BartonTHE No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATIONWINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK…
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‘Read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting’ ObserverA triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page.A…
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Translated by Ottilie MulzetA masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disasterThe International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle…
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The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse‘Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel…elegant, original and often very funny’ Kevin Barry, New…
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Translated by Margaret MitsutaniHiruko, from the now vanished archipelago ‘somewhere between China and Polynesia’, and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down…
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Darting between decades, perspectives and countries, THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE is a wickedly funny political murder mystery with a big heart - from the best-selling, beloved and prize winning author'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan…
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A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories…
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A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick HarkawaySet in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy…
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Winter 1962. As Britain becomes engulfed in one the coldest and longest winters on record, the lives of two newly married couples are changed in surprising and irrevocable ways.Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. Winner of the…
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A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love'Irresistible … A powerful pleasure' Karen Joy Fowler'Slow, rich, immaculate ...…
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