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A Fabulous Liar

Susann Pasztor

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

Tim Leach

RRP: £8.99

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

Pete Dexter

RRP: £7.99

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

Christopher Morgan

RRP: £10.99

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

Rilla Askew

RRP: £8.99

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

Robert Hough

RRP: £25.00

‘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

Annabel Lyon

RRP: £8.99

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

Katharina Hagena

RRP: £12.99

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

Robin Sloan

RRP: £9.99

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

Nancy Huston

RRP: £7.99

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

Achmat Dangor

RRP: £9.99

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 …

Spilt Milk

Chico Buarque

RRP: £14.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDS.Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly r …

The World Beneath

Cate Kennedy

RRP: £12.99

Back in the eighties, Rich and Sandy were environmental campaigners: idealistic, passionate about their cause, and desperately in love. Now, twenty-five years and a seperation later, the only thing th …

Alveridgea and the Legend of the Lonely Dog

Ivan Clarke

Welcome to Port Alveridge. You’ll notice something quite unusual about its inhabitants. Many of them are cats; and the ones that aren’t cats, are dogs. Alveridgea and the Legend of the Lonely Dog is t …

Father of the Rain

Lily King

RRP: £8.99

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WRITERS & LOVERSGardiner Amory is a New England WASP who’s beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, …

The Heat of the Sun

David Rain

RRP: £8.99

When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton — known to all as ‘Trouble’ — for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are polar opposite …

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