Celebrating fiction in all its forms, Hatchards revels in classics, ancient and modern, Booker Prize-winners such as Hilary Mantel, the virtuoso storytelling of Jeffrey Archer, thrillers by John le Carre, the humorous escapades of P.G. Wodehouse and stories for the 21st century from Elif Shafak. From translation to ‘cosy crime’, signed and exclusive to gift editions, Hatchards is home to the very best in paperback and hardback fiction.

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Intermezzo
Intermezzo
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Our Evenings
Our Evenings
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Intermezzo
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Held
Held
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We Solve Murders
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An Eye for an Eye
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Orbital
Orbital
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Julia
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A Suspicion of Spies

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Tell Me Everything
Entitlement
We Solve Murders
The Glassmaker
Gabriel's Moon
Creation Lake
Death at the Sign of the Rook
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Dogs and Monsters
Precipice
Precipice
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Heart, Be at Peace
Down Cemetery Road
Rare Singles
A Refiner's Fire
The Exile
The Exile
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Same As It Ever Was

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James
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Stone Yard Devotional
Held
Held
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Orbital
Orbital
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Creation Lake
The Safekeep

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Orbital
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
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The Last Devil To Die
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A selection of the very best signed & special fiction

Deadly Game: Hatchards Signed Edition
Tom Lake
Tom Lake
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KENNEDY 35
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You Are Here: Hatchards Signed Edition
After the Funeral
The Seventh Son
The Gathering
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The Fraud
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The Mystery Guest

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The Proof of My Innocence
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The Map of Bones
Paper Boat
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Our Evenings
Karla's Choice
The Poisoned King
Guilty
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Midnight and Blue
The Blue Hour
By Any Other Name
The Waiting
In Too Deep
Murder Under the Mistletoe
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The Grey Wolf
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The Bell Jar
The Great Gatsby
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Wuthering Heights
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Moby-Dick
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Rebecca
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Where Stands A Winged Sentry
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Winners of the Man Booker, Pulitzer, Women's Prize & Orwell Prize

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Cover Her Face
The Thirty-Nine Steps
An English Murder
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Unseen Hand
Epitaph for a Spy
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Ashenden
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March Violets
The Man Who Was Thursday
Strong Poison
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Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman
The Candlelight Murders
War Damage
If I Die Before I Wake

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The Millionaire Mystery
Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper
Inspector French: Death on the Way
The Red House Mystery
The Twenty-Third Man
Curtain Call
The Clock Strikes Twelve
Death Goes on Skis
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Maisie Dobbs
Chronicles of the Secret Service
The Railway Detective
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Unravelled Knots
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Galahad at Blandings
The Clicking Of Cuthbert
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Pigs Have Wings
Carry On, Jeeves
Joy In The Morning
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Foundation
The Colour Of Magic
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Ready Player One
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