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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in UK (Britain) & Ireland

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  • The Usual Desire to Kill
    Camilla Barnes
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their ...
  • The Railway Conspiracy
    The Railway Conspiracy: A Dee and Lao Mystery
    John Shen Yen Nee, S.J. Rozan
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a ...
  • Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
    Ben Okri
    Hardcover: 03/18/2025
     
    In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class ...
  • All the Other Mothers Hate Me
    Sarah Harman
    Hardcover: 03/11/2025
     
    "The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."
  • Universality
    Universality: A Novel
    Natasha Brown
    Hardcover: 03/04/2025
     
    Remember—words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the ...
  • Clear
    Clear: A Novel
    Carys Davies
    Paperback: 03/04/2025
     
    A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote island off of...
  • Long Island
    Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
    Colm Toibin
    Paperback: 02/25/2025
     
    From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and ...

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