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Six Years After the Bone Clocks Comes a New Novel from Bestselling David Mitchell Lead Titles General Fiction Literary Fiction The literary event of 2020 Six years after The Bone Clocks comes a new novel from bestselling David Mitchell Lead Titles General Fiction Literary Fiction State Highway One Hideaway Heatstroke The Women Who Ran Away An Inventory of Losses $ 34.99 TPB $34.99 TPB Sam Coley Nora Roberts Hazel Barkworth $34.99 TPB Sheila O’Flanagan $34.99 TPB Judith Schalansky $50.00 HB It’s been years since Alex was in New Zealand Caitlyn Sullivan is just nine years old when At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, Thrown together by chance, Deira and A collection of stories about things that are and years since he spent any one-on-one time a game of hide and seek at a family party everything shifts when Lily, Rachel’s student Grace are soon motoring down the French irretrievably lost to the world, including the with his twin sister, Amy. 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