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6 unmissable novels to binge-read this autumn

With the nights stretching longer, it's the perfect time to grab a hot drink and curl up with some new additions to your ‘to-be-read’ pile. Here are six of the most highly anticipated novels coming out this autumn.

Miranda Freeman
Two stacks of books on a wooden shelf, with Checkout 19 standing upright on the left stack, and The Inseparables standing upright on the right stack.

Autumn – a time to wind down, dust off our coats and stock up our ‘to-be-read’ piles with some of the best and biggest fiction of the year. From Simone de Beauvoir’s lost novel to a modern-day story reminiscent of both The Secret History and Killing Eve, below is a how of highly anticipated novels book-lovers are sure to devour.

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