August Is a Wicked Month

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  Under the Eye of the Big Bird

  From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of …

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  Held

  A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.
  
  1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lie…

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  After the Funeral and Other Stories

  A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships -- Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylist…

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  Absolutely and Forever

  A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers
  
  Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly …

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  Heart, Be at Peace

  ‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, …

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  Flesh

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  Orbital

  A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space st…

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  Perfection

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  Les Choses

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  A Short History of the World According to Sheep

  An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history.
  
  From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of mo…

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  The Wren, the Wren

  An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.
  
  Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poe…

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  Antarctica

  Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut collection, Antarctica, have been acclaimed by The Observer to be "among the finest c…

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  The Testament of Mary

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  Hot Milk

  Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power
  
  Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness and her doctors are mystified. Her daughter So…

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  Thirteen Steps Down

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  Alphabetical Diaries

  A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.
  
  Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and…

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  Last Friends

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  The Blackwater Lightship

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  Summer

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  Milkman

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  Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

  As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. She became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless. Five rackety years followe…

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  The Lemon Table

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  The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat

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  History of the Rain

  We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...
  
  Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling ra…

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  Hunchback

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  The Golden Notebook

  Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her po…

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  The Volcano Lover

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  By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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  The Fugitives

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  Bitter Orange Tree

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