Man Gone Down

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On the eve of this thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six …

Today

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPEARS NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents’ home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday we …

The Cookbook Collector

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Two sisters, opposite in every way: twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CFO of an internet start-up, twenty-three-year-old Jess is a graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in …

Give Me Your Heart

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In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond …

Hemispheres

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 EAST MIDLANDS BOOK AWARDMoving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who en …

The Golden Mean

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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 …

The Slap

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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 …

Between the Assassinations

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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 …

Valley of Grace

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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 …

Lucy Springer Gets Even

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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 …

The Anatomy of Wings

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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 …

The Good Parents

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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 …

Welcome to Life

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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 …

Dark Roots

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 …

Girl In A Garden

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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 …

Running With Scissors

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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 …