Christmas 2022: Fiction
Selected by the Bookshop
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Translated by Richard and Clara WinstonDescribed as 'a masterpiece' by Stefan Zweig, this extraordinary novel of love, war, ghosts and memory features an introduction by Patti SmithBaron Bagge, a cavalry officer in the Carpathian…
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I was told of an older woman who was asked by her granddaughter, 'Granny, when was the happiest time of your life?''I don't know,' she replied, 'I may not have had it yet.'A COSMO HOTTEST BOOK FOR SUMMER 2022 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE…
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A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is…
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Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like…
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A belter of a thriller' The Times'A master storyteller' Observer'An important book for our particular historical moment' Guardian'From what is it they flee?'He took a while…
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Translated from the Hindi by Daisy RockwellAn eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention – including…
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The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a…
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'An exquisite love letter to life' TAYARI JONES, Women's Prize-winning author of An American MarriageThis is not a romance, but it is about loveTwo kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is…
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Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris and Oliver Pablo, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their days trying to get to the library, bickering over their tanking bitcoin, failing to write or resist the…
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The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo'The only way to experience Saunders's oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in.…
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Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowellHis father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old…
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'[McCarthy] writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - TelegraphA SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY.The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted…
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'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce-----From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and…
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