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The penguin lessons

Tom Michell
This is the heart-warming story of Juan Salvador the penguin, rescued by Tom from an oil slick in Uruguay just days before a new term.
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Romancing Mr Bridgerton

Julia Quinn
Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for - well, it feels like forever.
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The Seven dials mystery

Agatha Christie
Superintendent Battle must solve a practical joke gone horribly wrong.
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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte
This novel is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father.
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The night manager

John Le Carre
Jonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is 'the worst man in the world'. And he knows why.
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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.
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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains.
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The punishment she deserves

Elizabeth George
Lynley and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered.
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The queen of poisons

Robert Thorogood
Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a Town Council meeting. When traces of aconite – also known as the queen of poisons – are found in his coffee cup, the police realise he was murdered. But who did it?
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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
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H is for hawk

Helen Macdonald
When Helen's father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk.
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The handmaid's tale

Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States.

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