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The Layered, Living and Heartaching History of Land
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Hamnet
A love that draws them together, a loss that threatens to tear them apart… The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece, now a major film.
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Horse
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat.
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Rat Daniels
A luminous and deeply evocative debut novel from the 2023 Richell Prize winner, Alex Sawyer.
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Main Characters
Some love stories are bigger than just two people. This one is told by friends, flatmates, exes and strangers - everybody but the main characters.
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Migrations
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Land
A story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
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Villa Coco
A sun-drenched paean to youth, to age and to the fulfilment of love - filled with great wisdom and a spirit of unadulterated joy.
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Broken Country
A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.
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Arborescence
From the award-winning author of Hovering comes a strikingly original novel about what it means to grapple with a world where the very definition of humanity is changing.
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Connections: New, Lost, and Found
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Tenderfoot
Luminous, aching, exhilarating - a coming-of-age novel like no other, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Addition.
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Margaret, Are You Leaving?
An uplifting and life-affirming novel about family lost and found from the author of Australian bestseller The Wakes.
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The Names
Powerfully moving and full of hope, this is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark.
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All the Colours of the Dark
Two childhood best friends. Torn apart by tragedy. Reunited by their search for the truth. Even if finding it means losing each other forever...
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