Christmas 2024: Fiction
Selected by the Bookshop
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Six 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 astronauts in the International…
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A stunning portrait of modern England from one of Britain's finest novelists.'The best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It’s funny but desperately moving too' – The Sunday…
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The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali SmithO brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red…
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'Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new…
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An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires‘Tessa Hadley is my favourite author’ - KATE ATKINSONEvelyn had the surprising…
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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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A new novel from the Booker-shortlisted authorA POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here…
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The Powerful Reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Trees'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and JAMES is a canon-shatteringly great book' – Hernan…
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Translated by Polly Barton'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY'Delicious' i-D Magazine'Salivatingly well-written' RENA MATSUIThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the…
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A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final pageA place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and…
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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 disasterInternational 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 FlaneuseThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is…
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The magical sequel to Scattered All Over the Earth, from the prize-winning Japanese author.Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks…
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A blistering political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery - from the bestselling author of Middle England.'A brilliant, shrewd, satirical novel – gimlet-eyed, funny, very clever and a searchingly profound look at the state of…
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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.'Delicate and devastating . . . a brilliant novel'…
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