The Golden Mean
Annabel LyonRRP: £7.99
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the …
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Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the …
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WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 2009LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010’A tremendously vital book in every sense.’ – Sunday TimesAt a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unr …
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The dazzling new book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize: one of the summer’s most eagerly anticipated works of fiction. In his compelling new work of fiction, Aravind Adiga has imagined the …
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Fanny and Gérard fall in love in a way that surprises even them as their lives fill with good sex and loving companionship. But they long for a child to complete their happiness. So begins Valley of G …
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Lucy Springer thinks she’s got it tough. She’s living through renovation hell, her two kids seem more challenging than ever, and her once successful acting career has been reduced to the odd commercia …
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In a dusty Queensland town, something terrible has happened.Amongst broken bottles and cigarette butts at the foot of a water tower, a girl with blonde hair lies as if sleeping. Jennifer Day has lost …
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From the author of Gilgamesh – longlisted for the Orange Prize – comes a novel of loss and longing that goes right to the heart of the struggle to belong.’A richly detailed, expertly written explorati …
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In politically correct middle-class Cambridge at the tail end of the 1980s, Freya’s nouveau riche parents are, well, different. Millie, her mum, doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body. Self-obsessed …
From the strains of a dissolving relationship, to the ripple effect of a chance encounter in an ordinary life, the characters in Cate Kennedy’s Dark Roots speak of the hidden motivations that propel u …
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‘A magnificent novel… I read it breathlessly.’ Ivan KlímaIt’s 1961 and something has gone badly wrong at 17 Esper Road. Charles is in search of a better world but his wife Emma hankers after parties …
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion PictureThis is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up livin …
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ROUSE UP is a virtuoso novel of extraordinary power that returns to the themes that haunt so much of Oe’s work: family, responsibility, writing and the experience of being a parent to a disabled child …
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Considered by critics to be Barth’s most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the widely chaotic odyssey of ha …
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The number one New York Times bestsellerLeopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal …
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An epic, sweeping tale set in wartime France, The Silent Hours follows three people whose lives are bound together, before war tears them apart: Adeline, a mute who takes refuge in a convent, haunted …
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