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Get ready for the new unforgettable love story from David Nicholls, author of bestselling phenomenon ONE DAY. YOU ARE HERE arrives 23 April 💙💛 Pre-order your copy now! #YouAreHere @davidnichollswriter
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Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies... ✨☁ Get #CloudAtlas by David Mitchell for just 99p on Kindle for a limited time!
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Out today in stunning new paperback edition: #TheSleepWatcher by Costa-shortlisted author @rowanhisa ✨☁ One summer, sixteen-year-old Kit's life is upended by a strange sleeplessness. While her body lies in bed, she is able to wander through the night undetected, roaming the streets of her run-down seaside town, entering the houses of friends and strangers. But the most painful revelations are found closest to home. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses the dark tensions in her parents' marriage and, as her family starts to implode, she is forced into an impossible decision that changes everything... 'Affecting... both tense and tender' – Sophie Mackintosh 'Thoughtful... nuanced and powerful' – Spectator 'Elegant, atmospheric, sharp-edged' – Cal Flyn
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From the author of cult hit #OtherPeoplesClothes : SCRAP by @callahead_ is out now! When struggling artist Esther Ray's latest commission turns into a hunt for a murderer, she becomes obsessed with the wealthy family at the centre of it all, who seem to be hiding a violent secret... #Scrap is a razor-sharp examination of wealth and power, art and truth, of the line between justice and revenge - and who gets to cross it. 🖌 'Blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted' – PAULA HAWKINS 💀 'A knotted mystery too intriguing to leave unpicked' – ALICE SLATER 🔥 'Binge-worthy... a brilliantly immersive and almost cinematic experience' – JENNY MUSTARD
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#SomeOfUsJustFall by @pollyrowena is published as a beautiful new paperback on 2 May 2024 🌼💜 Pre-order your signed paperback from @samreadbookseller ! 'In her contemplative memoir, [Atkin] encourages everyone, especially those with chronic illnesses, to look beyond their own history and see the beauty in their world' – @washingtonpost
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From @charlottewoodwriter , the bestselling author of #TheWeekend , #StoneYardDevotional is a fearless and unflinching novel that explores forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship. Out now in hardback! 🐁💚 ------------------------------------ ‘Both profound and addictively entertaining’ CLARE CHAMBERS ‘Beautiful, strange and otherworldly’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘Subtly powerful and utterly engrossing’ CLAIRE FULLER ------------------------------------ Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past...
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Behold this stunning new edition of #CloudAtlas , released to celebrate 20 years since the first publication of David Mitchell’s incredible and dazzling novel. Publishing 11 April 2024, this special edition is signed, with a new afterword by the author and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin. It features four-colour endpapers, digitally printed page edges, foil design on the board and a ribbon marker. Copies are extremely limited – pre-order now to avoid disappointment! Federico Adornino (@mrfeditor ), Sceptre Executive Publisher, says: ‘There is quite simply no book like Cloud Atlas. A work of literature that defies classification, this is a novel that really shouldn’t work: it’s big, sprawling, uninterested in rules or tropes, dazzling in its ambition and dizzying in its scope. And yet, in the hands of one of contemporary literature’s geniuses, it becomes a triumph of the imagination. Over the past twenty years readers all over the world – myself very much included – have been seduced by the interlinked stories at the heart of Cloud Atlas and it felt right to celebrate this milestone by republishing it in a new, stunning edition. Sceptre has always been David’s home and we feel incredibly lucky to be able to celebrate this special anniversary with him.’
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WAIT. Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think... #StraightActing by @willtosh3 is a surprising and captivating portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives – his own and those in his plays and poems. Out 13th June & available to pre-order now!
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🔥 OUT NOW 🔥 Toby Lloyd's unforgettable, heart-stopping debut novel #Fervour is finally here! This is The Secret History meets horror meets Jonathan Safran Foer - with a dash of The Royal Tenenbaums...
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We're so excited to be publishing the non-fiction debut from Forward Prize-shortlisted poet Ralf Webb (@loco_mote ). #StrangeRelations is an investigation of masculinity, bisexuality and queerness, routed through the lives and works of four mid-century writers. Out 25 July & available to pre-order now!
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Looking for something new to read? 👇 #RememberMrSharma by A. P. Firdaus is just 99p on Kindle for a limited time! A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club pick, this beautiful story explores the ways in which we view the past, its inescapable hold over us and the stories we tell to set ourselves free...💚 #BBC2 #BetweenTheCovers #BookClub
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Feast your eyes upon the stunning Independent Bookshop Edition of #YouAreHere ! All copies are signed by the author and feature an exclusive map colourway on the endpapers. They also include a very special letter from @davidnichollswriter himself 💙💛 Pre-order your copy or check availability with your local indie bookshop!
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