King of the Ants
By: Charlie Higson
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Sean is a drifter, a builder's laborer waiting for something to happen. When he is offered easy mon…
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1. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
By: Neil Gaiman
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Multiple award winning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivat… read more
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- fiction
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- thriller
- crime
- fiction
3. Murphy's Law
By: Colin Bateman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Detective Jimmy Murphy has been given one last chance. After a terrible experience working undercov… read more
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- crime
- fiction
4. Divorcing Jack
By: Colin Bateman
3.50
Format: None pages,
Divorcing Jack is a 1998 satirical black comedy. The plot is set around the Northern Irish reporter… read more
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- thriller
- crime
- fiction
5. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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- fiction
"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
6. The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart #2)
By: Mark Morris
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Transported through time to the dank streets of Victorian London, Alex Locke seeks to unravel the m… read more
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- fiction
7. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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8. The Truth (Discworld, #25)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with… read more
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9. Happy Now
By: Charlie Higson
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
I do not believe that a man can be truly happy unless he fully understands what he is and can act a… read more
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11. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- fiction
12. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)
By: Mark Billingham
4.11
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more
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- thriller
- crime
- fiction
13. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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- crime
- fiction
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
14. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
By: Rob Wilkins
4.68
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more
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15. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
16. Magpie
By: Elizabeth Day
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more
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- thriller
- fiction
"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"-Elizabeth Day, Magpie
17. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- fiction
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
18. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
By: Billy Connolly
4.42
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more
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"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
19. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- crime
- fiction
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
20. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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- fiction
21. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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- crime
- fiction
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
22. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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- fiction
"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
23. The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
By: Janice Hallett
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the … read more
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24. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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25. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
26. The End of the World Survivors Club (The End of the World Running Club, #2)
By: Adrian J. Walker
3.92
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In THE END OF THE WORLD RUNNING CLUB Edgar Hill ran 550 miles after an apocalypse to try and find h… read more
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- fiction
27. Just Ignore Him
By: Alan Davies
4.36
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more
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"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
28. Attack and Decay (The Vinyl Detective, #6)
By: Andrew Cartmel
4.05
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LP… read more
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29. King of the Ants
By: Charlie Higson
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Sean is a drifter, a builder's laborer waiting for something to happen. When he is offered easy mon… read more
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30. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
