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Adrienne Ferreira
Eleven-year-old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you’re named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. Young teacher Dom Best is new…
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Rachel DeWoskin
Everybody needs a friend like Judy. She is whip-smart, hilarious, and her story is so real. She’s a wonderful singer, full of big dreams for a big future and she’s…
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Christina Stead
Letty Fox tells her story as a self-styled woman in New York’s world of passion, love and sexual bargaining. As a bright, uninhibited daughter of a middle class couple who…
J.M.G Le Clezio (Author)
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time.
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Geraldine Brooks
In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a…
Francine Pascal
What terrible secret has torn Jessica and Elizabeth apart? Ten years after graduating from Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling-out of epic proportions. After Jessica commits…
Steve Hockensmith
Newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defends their village from an army of flesh-eating unmentionables. But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr Darcy is nipped by a…
Jacqueline Lunn
Eve, now 34 and a concert cellist living in London, returns to an Australian country town for the funeral of her old school friend, Meg. As Eve and Sarah, also…
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Jennifer Egan
With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
Kate Jennings
My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene’s head the day she marries a War veteran. But Irene is restless and rebellious, bored by her…
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Jay Griffiths,Jay Griffiths
In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo - her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera - that is also…
Joanne Harris
‘Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and…
Tess Evans
Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held…
Helen Dunmore
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that…
Olga Grushin
Anna is on her way home from work on a cold winter’s day when she sees a crowd queuing at a kiosk. Though a queue is not an unusual sight…
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Philip Pullman
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, it says something…
Julie Orringer
In September 1937 Andras, a young Hungarian student, leaves his family and heads for Paris on a scholarship to study architecture. Before he sets off he is given a mysterious…
Rose Tremain
In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun…
Roberto Bolano
A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th century literature.
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers -…
Natasha Solomons
A charming novel about an irrepressible man, his long-suffering wife and a Very English dream.
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Lyn Hughes
Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys move to the Blue Mountains, following their dreams of creativity and love. But as Francis pursues his gift for designing exquisite wallpaper, Lilian finds that…
Danielle Trussoni
When Sister Evangeline of the St Rose Convent stumbles across a mysterious correspondence with Abigail Rockefeller in the archive, it reveals that angels once walked among us… and might still…
Joseph McElroy
New stories from a master of American fiction.
Jennifer Mills
A young man is released from prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn’t been home for 15 years…
Ron Rash
The year is 1951 and Holland Winchester, the local thug and a war veteran, has gone missing from his small, backwater South Carolina town. The local sheriff, Will Alexander, has…
Cherise Saywell
Gilly lives in a drought-ridden small town in 1970s Australia. She’s left school but hasn’t found a job, it’s always hot and life seems a little pointless. Then Pete arrives…
Yan Lianke
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China. During a blood-contamination scandal…
David Vann
Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene are trying to rebuild their life together. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary’s grown daughter, Rhoda is…
Karen Viggers
Elderly and in poor health, Mary fulfils her wish to herself to live out her last days on Bruny Island with only her regrets and memories for company. A long…
Yannick Haenel
Jan Karski, a young Polish officer, joined the Polish underground after escaping from a Soviet detention camp, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo. Escaping from the…
Jesse Blackadder
A ship carries Mary, Queen of Scots, home from the French court to wrest back control of her throne. Masquerading as a male crew member, Alison Blackadder must find a…
From one of today’s boldest writers comes a sly, surprising, and exhilarating novel about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies.
A Words Without Borders Anthology Remarkable … a triumph … connects us at the level of our humanity, no matter where we may be from. -Los Angeles Times
Joanna Trollope
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she’d been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.
Lauren Oliver
As compelling as The Lovely Bones and as memorable as Jenny Downham’s Before I Die, this will become a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
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Karen Essex
Be prepared to be seduced by an erotic and blood-tingling tale. Mina, the most famous woman in vampire lore, vividly recounts the joys and terrors of her passionate affair with…
Geoff Dyer
Jeff Atman is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He’s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties. He’s not expecting to…
Mr Patrick Holland
The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scene of being lost: motel rooms, alcohol abuse, prostitution ……
