Chowringhee

Sankar

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Welcome to the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta’s oldest and most venerable hotels. Meet its newest receptionist and hear of the people who spend their days and nights behind the Shahjahan’s grand façade, a …

Chowringhee

Mani Sankar Mukherji

RRP: £7.99

SHORTLISTED FOR INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2010Winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award, 2007’A terrific page-turner… An utter treat… Chowringhee might, to many eyes, supply more unasha …

The Reinvention of Ivy Brown

Roberta Taylor

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It is February 1963, and London is enduring the coldest winter anyone can remember. Ivy Brown, typist at the Wiseman Pulverizer Company, is about to turn thirty. As she sits, staring at the back of th …

White Ghost Girls

Alice Greenway

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Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionA Radio 4 Book at BedtimeTwo sisters grow together and apart into their emerging selves. Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk; Kate is watchful, all eyes a …

Between the Assassinations

Aravind Adiga

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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 …

In a Strange Room

Damon Galgut

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Damon Galgut’s masterful Man Booker-shortlisted novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys

Red April

Santiago Roncagliolo

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Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011: ‘We united to salute the very special combination of narrative prowess, psychological drama and social revelation with which Roncagliolo’s novel r …

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

RRP: £25.00

Psychologist Cass Seltzer’s book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed ‘the atheist with a soul’, Cass’s sudden celebrity has upended his life and brough …

Desert

J.M.G Le Clézio

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The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and …

Intuition

Allegra Goodman

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A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand nothing less than complete dedication and obedience from their young protégés. In this high-pressur …

The Good Parents

Joan London

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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 …

An Expensive Education

Nick McDonell

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An army roadblock. An American intelligence agent. A jetlagged afternoon on the Somalian plain. Michael Teak is not afraid of mercenaries. Life here comes at a price and as a CIA operative, Teak is ho …

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Gaile Parkin

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Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeAngel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes t …

Welcome to Life

Alice de Smith

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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 …

Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski

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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for FictionSet in Thailand, a brilliantly original and page-turning first novel of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and o …

Kruger’s Alp

Christopher Hope

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Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an …