The Story of Before

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I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was; and if I had – if I’d known one of us was going to die – would there have been anything …

Fallen Land

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‘Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started’ Philip Gourevitch, New YorkerFollowing the critical acclaim for his debut, Patrick Flanery’s Fallen Land is his as …

The Last Hangman

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In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of Travancore commits his life to paper. Into seven notebooks he remembers the men he has killed, calmly calling to mind the final strugg …

The Potter's Hand

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION.In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Cat …

Before I Burn

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In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in a close-knit community in rural Norway. Homes are burnt to a cinder, and panic spreads, as neighbours wonder who amongst them could be wreaking such fear a …

A Fabulous Liar

Joschi Molnar is an enigma: father, Holocaust survivor, wit, and fabulous liar. After his death his three surviving children are left with contrasting versions of his life, yet corresponding attitudes …

The Last King of Lydia

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A brilliant and strikingly original debut novel, The Last King of Lydia imagines the bloody rise and fall of Croesus, ‘the richest man on earth’, and powerfully shows how happiness, even for those who …

The Paperboy

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Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award-nominated Lee Daniels and starring Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray.The sun is rising over …

Currawalli Street

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We all have secret lives. And we are all pretty good at keeping them secret.With simplicity and great beauty, Currawalli Street reveals the echoes between past and present through the story of one ord …

Kind of Kin

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Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian. He says he’s a felon because he’s a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding mi …

The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark

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‘Robert Hough’s fictionalised big-top biog packs in the laughs and tears… Running away with the circus has never looked so good.’ — ElleMabel was five-feet tall, brazen, suicidally courageous, obse …

The Sweet Girl

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A bold and captivating new novel of what it means to be a woman in ancient Greece, from the celebrated, award-winning author of The Golden Mean.’The Golden Mean is one of the most convincing historica …

The Taste of Apple Seeds

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For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother’s garden, a place where redcurrants turned to pale tears on the branches of trees and bea …

Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

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A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both t …

Infrared

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From Nancy Huston – the Orange Prize shortlisted author of Fault Lines – comes Infrared: a smart and provocative novel of sexual intimacy and desire.After a childhood marked by pain, Rena Greenblatt h …

Bitter Fruit

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SHORTLISTED FOR 2003 THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award 2003’Dangor’s writing, and the world he creates with it, exude a vibrant physicality… Dangor’s vivid prose, narrative …