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Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs

Love is a gift, isn't it? From our early childhood years to growing up and pairing off, it's a feeling we chase knowing we're better off with it. But what if love is claustrophobic and conflicting? An…

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How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. Someone’s mother. And she has worked across the sex industry for twenty in a brothel, as an escort in…

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O Brother

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at the …

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Ordinary Human Failings

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secre…

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Penance

Do you know what happened already?
Did you know her?
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While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he - mostly - stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his fut…

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From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.

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From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up …

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The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.

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The Peepshow

'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid

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The List of Suspicious Things

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