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New Books in August 2025

Top picks31st August 2025

August has provided a treasure trove of new releases! Here is what the team have their eyes on.

The Empire of Forgetting

John Burnside - Paperback

£13.00

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Authority

Andrea Long Chu - Hardback

£20.00

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Phantom Limb

Chris Kohler - Paperback

£9.99

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Vera, Or Faith

Gary Shteyngart - Hardback

£16.99

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The Green Ages

Annette Kehnel - Paperback

£11.99

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King of Kings

Scott Anderson - Hardback

£25.00

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Carthage

Eve MacDonald - Hardback

£22.00

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Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty - Paperback

£14.99

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The New India

Rahul Bhatia - Paperback

£12.99

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Catalina

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - Paperback

£14.99

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On Earth As It Is Beneath

Ana Paula Maia - Paperback

£11.99

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A Noble Madness

James Delbourgo - Hardback

£25.00

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Four by Four

Sara Mesa - Paperback

£12.99

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Forest of Noise

Mosab Abu Toha - Paperback

£9.99

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Shred Sisters

Betsy Lerner - Paperback

£10.99

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The Midnight Shift

Seon-Ran Cheon - Paperback

£14.99

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The Expansion Project

Ben Pester - Hardback

£16.99

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Practice

Rosalind Brown - Paperback

£9.99

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Seduction Theory

Emily Adrian - Hardback

£18.99

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TonyInterruptor

Nicola Barker - Hardback

£16.99

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Swimming Studies

Leanne Shapton - Paperback

£13.99

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Dancefloor

Victor Jestin - Paperback

£14.99

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Giant

Mollie Ray - Paperback

£12.99

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Feminism for the World

8 authors - Paperback

£14.99

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Survival is a Promise

alexis pauline gumbs - Paperback

£14.99

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Discontent

Beatriz Serrano - Paperback

£14.99

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Restoration

Ave Barrera - Paperback

£11.99

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Blood Book

Kim de l’Horizon - Hardback

£18.99

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Alexandrian Sphinx

2 authors - Hardback

£30.00

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Katabasis

RF Kuang - Hardback

£22.00

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The Mirror of Great Britain

Clare Jackson - Hardback

£35.00

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Transfigurations

Jay Wright - Paperback

£14.99

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Mother State

Helen Charman - Paperback

£14.99

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Long Distance

Aysegül Savas - Paperback

£14.99

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Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin - Hardback

£16.99

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Helm

Sarah Hall - Hardback

£20.00

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The Quiet Ear

Raymond Antrobus - Hardback

£16.99

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So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan - Paperback

£7.99

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A Truce That Is Not Peace

Miriam Toews - Hardback

£16.99

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This Is Not a Small Voice

Sonia Sanchez - Paperback

£10.99

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