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Fiction

The Gap of Time – The Winter’s Tale retold

Winterson, Jeanette
Jeanette Winterson's version of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale' vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story of betrayal, paranoia, redemption and hope.
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Shylock is My Name – The Merchant of Venice retold

Jacobson, Howard
'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to.
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Fiction

Vinegar Girl – The Taming of the Shrew retold

Tyler, Anne
Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always app
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Fiction

Hag-seed – The Tempest retold

Atwood, Margaret
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that wa
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Fiction

New Boy – Othello retold

Chevalier, Tracy
She noticed him before anyone else. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school.
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Dunbar – King Lear retold

St. Aubyn, Edward
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan.
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Fiction

Fair Rosaline

Solomons, Natasha
Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love.
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Fiction

Hamnet

O’Farrell, Maggie
When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards announces he is gay it causes shockwaves in the family, and issues for his grandson Teddy who is also gay and not ready to come out yet.
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Fiction

The Wonder Of It All

Bradford, Barbara Taylor
This is the final novel in the House of Falconer trilogy which follows a family from Victorian times to the twentieth century.
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Fiction

One Moment

Hunter, Becky
This debut novel is a story of two best friends and what happens after a terrible accident changes everything.
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Fiction

The Happy Couple

Dolan, Naoise
In her second novel, Irish writer, Naoise Dolan writes about a couple heading towards their wedding and the three friends who may pull them apart.
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Fiction

Baby Does a Runner

Rani, Anita
This is the debut novel from well-known radio and television presenter, Anita Rani and is about a woman who goes to India to find out more about her family’s past.
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Fiction

From Cornwall with love

McLaughlin, Cressida
The latest instalment in the ‘Cornish Cream Tea’ series.
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Fiction

An Invitation to Seashell Bay

Osborne, Bella
Let this rom com whisk you off to summer sunshine.
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