Intermezzo by Sally Rooney | 24th Sept | £20

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan seem to have little in common.  But in the wake of their father’s death, for these two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman | 12th September | £22

An iconic new detective duo. Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life and he prefers his familiar habits and routines. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a deadly enemy?

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier | 12th September | £20

Venice, 1486.  Time flows differently here. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout | 19th September | £16.99

Bob Burgess  has  formed a friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton.  Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, telling each other stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat.

Odyssey by Stephen Fry | 26th September | £25

The most famous heroic story of all time, Odyssey is chock full of monsters, murder, maelstroms, gods, giants, wit, wisdom – and the most cunning hero of them all: Odysseus. A tale of love and longing, return and redemption, home and hope, Stephen Fry’s Odyssey sees the author weave together the final fabulous threads of the tapestry begun in worldwide bestseller, Mythos. It is a story for the ages – and all ages.

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd | 5th September | £20

An accidental spy. A web of betrayals. A mystery that will take you around the world…Gabriel Dax’s days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into the shadows of espionage. Falling under the spell of Faith Green, an enigmatic and ruthless MI6 handler, he becomes ‘her spy’, unable to resist her demands.

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner | 5th September | £18.99

Spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her instructions are to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic Bruno Lacombe. At first Sadie finds Bruno’s idealism laughable but just as she is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story. Creation Lake is a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.

Playground by Richard Powers | 26th September | £20

Playground follows four lives – a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer – that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity’s next great adventure. Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle | 12th September | £20

Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. She has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, “a success” – Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes, memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.

The Specimens by Mairi Kidd | 26th September | £16.99

Inside Edinburgh’s nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But a shortage of bodies leads to the gruesome act of graveyard bodysnatching. And when stealing cadavers turns to murder, Burke & Hare became two of the most notorious serial killers of their time. This is the story of those grim events, told for the first time through the eyes of Susan and Helen (Nelly), two women caught up in those horrific matters.

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