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A Spool of Blue Thread

Anne Tyler

The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations…

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

J. K. Rowling

These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next…

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This Is Where I Leave You

Jonathan Tropper

The Richard & Judy-selected author returns with a touching and hilarious new novel.

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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.

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The Nest

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Ferociously astute, warm and funny, The Nest is a brilliant debut chronicling the hilarity and savagery of family life.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish…

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Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

A special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Katherine Dunn’s extraordinary cult classic, with a new introduction by the author.

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The Green Road

Anne Enright

The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age…

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Commonwealth

Ann Patchett

For use in schools and libraries only. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.

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Seven Little Australians: Australian Children’s Classics

Ethel Turner

If you imagine you are going to read of model children you had better lay down this book immediately. Not one of the seven is really good, for the very…

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The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her…

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For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories

J. D. Salinger

Includes two of the author’s critically acclaimed stories. This title contains a story that recounts the author’s meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. It also contains…

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The Gathering

Anne Enright

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn’t the drink that killed him - although that certainly…

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The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead

Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife, he a fully blown narcissist and she spoiled and prone to fits of despair. Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life…

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Baronet Books, c1989.

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