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<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/91DfXCmdjIL._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg" alt="The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, £22</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A new novel from bestselling master storyteller Sebastian Faulks is always a ‘publishing event’. His new novel, like his nineteen others is an intelligently written and compelling read. Sweeping between New York, London, and the Scottish Highlands, this is an extraordinary novel about unrequited love and unearned power. It asks the question: just because you can do something, does it mean you should? The author will be speaking about it for us on September 12th (tickers via our bookshop). Out 7 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/42ee7c5f-4e37-490c-b2a3-2d6bf3711e40-scaled-e1693910228991.jpg" alt="The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright, £18.99</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A highly-anticipated new novel from a Booker prize-winning author. This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women, and an exploration of the love between mother and daughter &#8211; sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. Out Now.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/101160689.jpg" alt="Rouge by Mona Awad" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Rouge by Mona Awad, £16.99</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>You’ll never look at skin care products the same way after reading this dark fairytale! With black humour and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry-as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality and our fixation with the surface. Eyes Wide shut meets Angela Carter! Out 14 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/Weirdo.jpg" alt="Weirdo by Sara Pascoe" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Weirdo by Sara Pascoe, £14.99</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>The comedian and writer turns her hand to fiction for the first time. <em>Weirdo</em> follows Sophie; feverishly anxious and working hard to be happy in her own skin – if only life wouldn’t make that so hard. She has a chance at creating a new ending after a failed relationship and paying off her emotional debts (if not her financial ones). All she has to do is act exactly like a normal, well-adjusted person and not say any of her inner monologue out loud…Caitlin Moran is a fan! Out 14 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/81qayzcxlcL._SL1500_.jpg" alt="The Figurine by Victoria Hislop" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">The Figurine by Victoria Hislop, £25 </h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author of <em>The island</em>Victoria Hislop returns to Greece.  A woman discovers a collection of antiquities in her late-grandparents&#8217; flat, in this immersive and topical novel about passion, injustice and the nature of home and heritage. Shining a light on the questionable acquisition of cultural treasures and the price people &#8211; and countries &#8211; will pay to cling on to them, this is bound to hit the bestseller lists. Out 28 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/sheep-s-clothing-4.jpg" alt="Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale, £9.99</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A sinister tale of greed and misplaced trust, further complicated by a romantic entanglement gone awry. Dale masterfully dissects the little cruelties of life as her characters &#8211; two women who were former inmates &#8211; roam the streets of London, forcing us to consider the question: what harm can it do to have a chat and a cup of tea? Turns out, quite a lot&#8230; Out 28 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/absolutely-forever-1.jpg" alt="Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain, £16.99 </h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A story of first love set in 1960s Chelsea. As Marianne narrates her story she characterises herself as ignorant and unworthy, yet her smart, ironic narration tellingly reveals so much more. Supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella, she continues to seek the life she never stops craving. And in Paris, beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst, the handsome man she met and fell for, continues to nurse the secret which will alter everything. Out 21 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/71We01Ab-9L._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg" alt="Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll, £16.99</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A chilling new novel from the author the Netflix sensation Luckiest Girl Alive. This page-turner is inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America&#8217;s first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree. The sort of book that fills you with dread and anxiety but becomes impossible to put down. Out 28 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/912btN2y50L._SL1500_.jpg" alt="The Stargazers by Harriet Evans" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">The Stargazers by Harriet Evans, £16.99 </h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>A chilling new novel from the author the Netflix sensation Luckiest Girl Alive. This page-turner is inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America&#8217;s first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree. The sort of book that fills you with dread and anxiety but becomes impossible to put down. Out 28 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/81oi3cFN17L._AC_UF8941000_QL80_.jpg" alt="The Fraud by Zadie Smith" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">The Fraud by Zadie Smith, £20</h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>The acclaimed author of<em> White Teeth</em> has looked to the past in a novel that is inspired by an unusual court case that divided Victorian Britain. <em>The Fraud,</em> dealing deftly with issues of class and race, and set in London and Jamaica is a dazzling novel &#8211; a mosaic of different stories &#8211; about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what&#8217;s true can prove a complicated task. Out 7 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



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<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/really-good-actually-monica-heisey_432049.jpg" alt="Really Good Actually by Monica Heisey" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">Really Good Actually by Monica Heisey, £9.99 </h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>I defy you to read this and not snort with laughter. Still, you’d expect nothing less from a writer on Schitt’s Creek. At the age of 29, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcee (TM). Soon she&#8217;s taking up &#8216;sadness hobbies&#8217; and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy. As Maggie throws herself headlong into the chaos of her first year of divorce, she finds herself questioning everything, including: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? How many Night Burgers until I&#8217;m happy? Laugh-out-loud funny, razor sharp and painfully relatable, <em>Really Good, Actually</em> is an irresistible debut novel about the uncertainties of modern love, friendship and happiness. Out 28 Sep.</p></div></div></div></div>



<div class="wp-block-muddy-blocks-giftguide gift"><div class="gift-img"><img decoding="async" class="card__image" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/berkshire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/09/9780857528995-scaled.jpg" alt="We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman" /></div><div class="gift-text"><div class="gift-price"><h2 class="giftguide-title">We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman,  £8.99 </h2><div class="giftguide-body"><p>For fans of Nora Ephron, a warm, funny and deeply moving story of friendship at its imperfect and radiant best. Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they have seen each other through life&#8217;s milestones. When Edi is diagnosed with cancer, Ash&#8217;s world reshapes around the rhythms of Edi&#8217;s care &#8211; because life is about squeezing the joy out of every moment, about building a powerhouse of memories, about learning when to hold on, and when to let go. Simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching, this is one you’ll be lending to friends. Out 14 Sep.</p><p><strong><em>Want to check out some more fresh titles or get a personalised recommendation? You can’t beat a local bookstore. </em></strong></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://hungerfordbookshop.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hungerford Bookshop</a>,</strong> 24a High Street, Hungerford, Berkshire RG17 0NF Tel:01488 683480, email: <a href="mailto:hello@hungerfordbookshop.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hello@hungerfordbookshop.co.uk</a></em></p></div></div></div></div>


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