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Best of Friends

Chosen as a book of 2022 by the Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times

Kamila Shamsie
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In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Kamila Shamsie on her outstanding new novel, Best of Friends

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Illuminations

'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN

Alan Moore
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7 questions for Raven Books author, Laura Purcell

The award-winning author on her favourite ghost story and her new supernatural thriller, The Whispering Muse, set in a Victorian theatre

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Black History Month 2022

Celebrate Black History with some of our best Fiction books by Black authors

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The Bloomsbury Summer Sale

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Best of Friends book jacket

Best of Friends

Chosen as a book of 2022 by the Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times

Kamila Shamsie
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In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Kamila Shamsie on her outstanding new novel, Best of Friends

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Illuminations book jacket

Illuminations

'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN

Alan Moore
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7 questions for Raven Books author, Laura Purcell

The award-winning author on her favourite ghost story and her new supernatural thriller, The Whispering Muse, set in a Victorian theatre

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Black History Month 2022

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The Summer We Lied
Rebecca Hardy
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Glad You Came
Chloe Ford
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The Red Mouth
Sheila Armstrong
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Lion Hearts
Dan Jones
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My Sister and Other Lovers
Esther Freud
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Graham Hurley
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Colum McCann
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Kelly Mancaruso
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Ferdinand Mount
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Everything in this Country Must
Colum McCann
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Laila Lalami
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From Me To You
Ali McNamara
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Isabel Allende
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'Blue 4Eva' from Saba Sam's short story collection, Send Nudes, wins

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Send Nudes
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Madeline Miller
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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Send Nudes
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Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie
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Colum McCann
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Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
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Such a Fun Age
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The Song of Achilles
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Swimming in the Dark
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Bright Burning Things
Lisa Harding
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Test Signal
Dead Ink Books
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The Truants
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People Like Them
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The Devil and the Dark Water
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Greenwich Park
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The Shape of Darkness
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I Know What I Saw
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Nothing Can Hurt You
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The Seduction
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The Hunt and the Kill
Holly Watt
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People Like Them
Samira Sedira
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The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
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Greenwich Park
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The Shape of Darkness
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I Know What I Saw
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Nothing Can Hurt You
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The Seduction
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The Hunt and the Kill
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Zoli
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Terrible True Tales: First World War
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
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Abduction of a Slave
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Robert Ludlum's™ The Bourne Escape
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The Last Truths We Told
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£5.10 RRP £16.99
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£149.70 RRP £499.00
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The Troubled Deep
Rob Parker
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Kelly Mancaruso
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The Scammer's Trail
Smarak Swain
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The Stranger at the Wedding
A. E. Gauntlett
£2.70 RRP £8.99
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The Break-In
Katherine Faulkner
£5.10 RRP £16.99
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£6.00 RRP £20.00
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Wives Like Us
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Secrets of State
Matthew Palmer
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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The Oligarch's Daughter
Joseph Finder
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Martin Edwards
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Picks and Shovels
Cory Doctorow
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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The Hidden Hand
Stella Rimington
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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The House at Devil's Neck
Tom Mead
£6.00 RRP £20.00
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Abduction of a Slave
Dana Stabenow
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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Robert Ludlum's™ The Bourne Escape
Brian Freeman
£6.00 RRP £20.00
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The Last Truths We Told
Holly Watt
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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A Case of Life and Limb
Sally Smith
£5.10 RRP £16.99
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Vish Dhamija
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The Troubled Deep
Rob Parker
£2.70 RRP £8.99
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Rumoured
Kelly Mancaruso
£3.00 RRP £9.99
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The Scammer's Trail
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£3.12 RRP £10.40
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The Stranger at the Wedding
A. E. Gauntlett
£2.70 RRP £8.99
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The Break-In
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