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  • The Names: A Novel
    Florence Knapp
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • Wiz Wharton
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...
  • Blue Ruin: A Novel
    Hari Kunzru
    Paperback: 04/29/2025
     
    From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, ...
  • The Pretender: A Novel
    Jo Harkin
    Hardcover: 04/22/2025
     
    A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell set during the time of the ...
  • Sarah Maria Griffin
    Hardcover: 04/22/2025
     
    This is a story about desire, dreams, decay―and working retail at the end of the world.
  • Caoilinn Hughes
    Paperback: 04/15/2025
     
    From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in...
  • Open, Heaven: A Novel
    Seán Hewitt
    Hardcover: 04/15/2025
     
    A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell ...

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