Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Vintage Publishing Ladder of Years
Book SynopsisOne warm summer''s day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**''Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing'' Rachel Joyce''She knows all the secrets of the human heart'' Monica Ali ''A masterly author'' Sebastian Faulks''I love Anne Tyler. I''ve read every single book she''s written'' Jacqueline WilsonTrade ReviewNo one evokes the frustrations of marriage, family life and independence with such pinpoint accuracy as Tyler * Daily Mail *It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted * Herald *Another winner from Anne Tyler * Independent *Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre * Sunday Times *Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless * Chicago Tribune *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Orange House
Book SynopsisHENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE IN THE ORANGE HOUSE. AND SO WILL YOU.Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Mallorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love into restoring the house and built the foundations of their marriage within its walls. First it was their private idyll, then a place to escape with their son, Luke - but now it has become a battleground. As the years have passed, cracks have appeared and secrets have built barriers between them. Finally, on the brink of divorce, they have come back to Mallorca to sell up. Will this final summer together be the end - or a new beginning? Twenty years ago, The Orange House brought them together. Now, will it be reason they part?YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE ORANGE HOUSE...''A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel of love lost and gained'' MILLY
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HarperCollins Publishers Summer at the Santorini Bookshop
Book SynopsisDon't miss the new novel from the Kindle bestselling author of The Little Venice Bookshop!***??A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love???After losing her job as a book scout, hopeless romantic Evie needs a fresh start. So when she hears that her eccentric grandmother has just taken on a small bookshop in Santorini, Evie jumps at the chance to visit her.But life on the island is not as idyllic as it first seems. Gran has a tempestuous relationship with her landlord and he's threatening to take the bookshop away from her. So when Gran asks Evie to fake date her landlord's Greek God of a grandson, Georgios, to keep the family on side, she reluctantly agrees.As the sun sets on Evie's Greek holiday, can she save the bookshop and fake date her way to love?Praise for Summer at the Santorini Bookshop:''Reading about Santorini was so vivid Rebecca brings readers along with her to the places she describes so beautifully'' ?????''I would love to find a bookshop like th
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Duckworth Books Death in le Jardin
Book SynopsisCrisis hits Richard's rural French B&B when his redoubtable housekeeper is accused of murder. With Valérie d'Orçay at his side, their investigation leads them to a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.
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HarperCollins Publishers Miss Garnets Angel
Book SynopsisSalley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.Trade Review'Subtle, unexpected and haunting.' Penelope Fitzgerald 'Very kind, very funny.' John Bayley 'Rich, complex and haunting…she makes the ancient story as riveting as Miss Garnet's own adventures.' Sunday Times Reveals itself as a surprising exploration of the mysteries of imagination and faith.' Joanna Trollope, Daily Telegraph, Book of the Year 'A subtle, witty tale.' John de Falbe, Spectator
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Penguin Books Ltd The Discovery of Heaven
Book SynopsisOn a cold night in Holland two men meet and change each other''s lives forever. Max Delius - a hedonistic, yet brilliant astronomer who loves fast cars, nice clothes and beautiful women - picks up Onno Quist, a cerebral chaotic philologist who cannot bear the ordinariness of everyday life. Despite their differences, they fast become great friends.And when they learn they were conceived on the same day, it is clear that their meeting is no coincidence. As the pair fall into and out of love with the same woman - Ada - so their lives become further intertwined. For all three are on a mysterious journey destined to shape human history. The Discovery of Heaven is internationally recognized as a masterpiece. Rich in philosophical, psychological, historical and theological enquiry, it is an extravagant, bold and satisfying novel of ideas.
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Penguin Books Ltd Pattern Recognition
Book Synopsis''Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson''s pin-sharp prose'' Arena--------------THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORECayce Pollard has a new job. She''s been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that''s lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She''s up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy.The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . .A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won''t be able to put this book down.--------------''Fast, witty and cleverly politicized'' Guardian''A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller'' GQ''Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies'' USA Today''A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world'' Daily Telegraph''Electric, profound. Gibson''s descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on'' Financial Times
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Penguin Books Ltd Two Caravans
Book SynopsisTwo Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner''s son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There are the Poles, Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; and Emauel from Malawi. They''re all here to pick strawberries in England''s green and pleasant land. But these days England''s not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who''s taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn''t fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he''s not in love with. ''Immensely appealing. All but sings with zest for life...could hardly be more engaging, shrewd and winningly perceptive'' Sunday
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Penguin Books Ltd Moon Tiger
Book SynopsisPenelope Lively''s Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ''history of the world . . . and in the process, my own''. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia''s life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.''Leaves its traces in the air long after you''ve put it away'' Anne Tyler''A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes'' Daily Telegraph''Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished'' Literary ReviewTrade ReviewLeaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away * Anne Tyler *A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes * Daily Telegraph *Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished * Literary Review *Lively's ability to bring her character and the world she inhabits into full technicolour is beautiful. This is a unique book about a fascinating unpredictable woman way ahead of her time and yet absolutely of her time * Lemn Sissay *One of Britain's most celebrated novelists. Moon Tiger's multiple, shifting viewpoints weaves an eloquent disquisition on memory, identity, age, love and regret * Financial Times *Atmospheric, inventive. Few books I've read recently have given me so much pleasure * Sam Jordison, Guardian *
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Penguin Books Ltd Foe
Book SynopsisJ. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia.Trade ReviewA small miracle of a book...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power * Washington Post *A finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination and skill * The New York Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Beach
Book SynopsisCelebrate the 25th anniversary of The Beach, a classic story of paradise found - and lost, the book that inspired the major film starring Leonardo DiCaprioRichard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams.But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?''Fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever'' Nick Hornby''A powerful narrative drive, exotic locations that unfold like a corrupt and mysterious flower, and a moody intelligence that holds everything together'' J.G. Ballard''A gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw'' The TimesTrade ReviewFresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever -- Nick HornbyA gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw * The Times *A white-knuckle ride into the heart of darkness * Sunday Times *Lord of the Flies and The Magus lurk at the roots of this novel, but Garland reshapes them with panache into something terrifyingly new * Mail on Sunday *A mesmerising, knuckle-clenching read * Maxim *Winningly compulsive, brilliantly conceived * Q *Garland's prose is stunningly lucid. Addictive and compelling * Spectator *A highly confident debut...this incisive novel may well come to be regarded as a defining text in the history of imaginative travel writing * Daily Telegraph *Alex Garland is writing a brand new kind of adventure novel. His style is dangerously simple yet altogether captivating -- Douglas RushkoffAn exceptional first novel...An action novel that provokes subtle responses, The Beach takes in ideas about man's inevitable progress from noble savage to social breakdown (and) the related tradition of nature versus art * The Times Literary Supplement *Garland has written a powerful and frighteningly believable novel * Company *Precise and speedy prose, with good old-fashioned romantic adventure spiced up with deadpan authorial irony * Guardian *
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Verve Books Send Flowers
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Little, Brown Book Group Love Over Scotland Vol3 44 Scotland Street series
Book SynopsisWith his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits, while Pat attracts several handsome admirers, including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee and good advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak and erstwhile boyfriend Eddie''s misdemeanours on her own mind.Trade ReviewIt is McCall Smith's particular genius to be able to look on the brighter side of life, and he's seldom done so more enjoyably * THE SCOTSMAN *A master storyteller . . . as warm and enjoyable as a very good soap opera * SUNDAY TIMES *A master storyteller . . . as warm and enjoyable as a very good soap opera * SUNDAY TIMES *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Glass Room
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Affair, now available on demand.Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room.High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Viktor''s lover and her child. But the house''s story is far from over, and as it passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe becomes somehow embodied and perhaps emboldened within the beautiful and austereTrade Review** 'THE GLASS ROOM is a fiction of many remarkable qualities . . . Mawer's control of his themes of language, desire, memory and the power of place is extraordinary - as haunting and mysterious as the effect of sunlight on the wall of golden onyx that survives all the convulsions by which his characters are engulfed * Jane Shilling, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH *** '[THE GLASS ROOM'S] poetic success is to remind us of two great gilt-edged ironies: that whatever is held to be the height of modernity is already en route to the museum, and that even "cold" art is the embodiment of its maker's passion - one that can * Richard T Kelly, FINANCIAL TIMES *** 'Mawer creates a passionately detailed portrait of individuals struggling to snatch order and happiness from frightening, irrational times . . . THE GLASS ROOM achieves a rare feat of being truly enjoyable to read. * Rachel Aspden, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *** 'Love triangles litter Mawer's story. They bear witness to his great talent for grasping the non-linear nature of desire. * Philip Oltermann, THE TIMES *
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Little, Brown Book Group Night Falls On The City
Book SynopsisVienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades and disappearances become routine, Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity, Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression, a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford, and Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she and her husband are to survive.A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s, Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic, and an unforgettable portrait of wartime.Trade ReviewIt is one of those rare novels of beauty and scope and ambition that succeeds both in bringing to life a particular moment in history, a particular society, while at the same time rejoicing in the minute details of everyday life, everyday emotions...Gainham is excellent at balancing real history with imagination and, without the effort being apparent, lays bare the background which makes it possible for the Nazis to enter Austria without a shot being fired...Night Falls on the City is undoubtedly her masterpiece. A courageous, timely novel that deserves to be better known * Kate Mosse *A pleasure to read . . . a compellingly intimate portrait of Vienna from the Anschluss to the end of the Second World War, which captures its atmosphere of fear, mistrust, corruption and ultimate collapse. There are no heroics; instead Sarah Gainham offers a scrupulously detailed story of individuals forced through barbarism into chaos. -- Helen Dunmore, bestselling author of The Siege and The BetrayalBrilliant and moving. -- Simon Mawer, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Glass RoomA rare novel of beauty and scope and ambition ... without doubt Gainham's masterpiece -- Kate Mosse, bestselling author of LabyrinthThrilling. -- Fanny Blake * Woman & Home *Brilliantly captures the mass confusion, corruption ... and the mistrust of even friends and family engendered by the occupation. Leaves you with an indelible impression. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *One of my favourite books . . . The story of Julia's double life is moving and memorable. -- Jessica Mann * Literary Review *A vivid picture of war . . . Gainham is a master storyteller. -- David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *This arresting book, saturated with a sense of place, paints a compelling portrait of a society swiftly descending into chaos. * Good Book Guide *One of the most rewarding novels I have ever read ... It is all done with a sure, confident but restrained hand, which make the terror and horror of it all the more potent. I feel confident in recommending it to anyone who prefers a big serious subject wrapped in a sparkling, alluring parcel of well-plotted, well-told and exciting fiction, as I do. -- Peter Hitchens * Mail on Sunday *
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Little, Brown Book Group Bilgewater
Book SynopsisMarigold Green calls herself ''hideous, quaint and barmy''. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill''s daughter. Growing up in a boys'' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescenceTrade ReviewShe does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *Lively....excellent * The TIMES *One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love * EVENING STANDARD *A striking story * TLS *
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Vintage Publishing The Great World
Book SynopsisDavid Malouf is the author Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls,' Spectator) and of acclaimed novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) and Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award).Trade ReviewIt is this characteristic opposition which makes The Great World a truthful portrait of Australia. Sufferings and wrongs abound, but there is no dullness. * Independent *An example of how fiction may still be individual, honest and humanly truthful. Malouf's great talent is precisely for unmasking the epic or world-historical - for finding the human backing to history's all reflecting mirror * The Times *Lucid and accessible. His most ambitious book so far * Guardian *A truthful portait of Australia * Independent on Sunday *A book of great stature with moral force and moral truth * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornerstone Tinkers
Book SynopsisConfined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks.Trade ReviewWonderful, lyrical . . . Triumphant . . . A beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition . . . Hypnotic. * The Times *Brilliantly realised . . . a reminder of how rich the written language can still be * Independent *Prepare to be seduced... Beguiles from the opening sentence ...This little novel is a wonder * Irish Times *An expert piece of historical and psychological archaeology, which unpicks the intricacies of ordinary life while also asking the terrifying, unanswerable, yet endlessly fascinating questions that haunt us all * Observer *A dense, elegiac and richly imagined piece of remembering...Life-affirming and visceral in its detail. * Daily Mail *
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Vintage Publishing A Spot of Bother
Book SynopsisA painful funny humane novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident' The TimesDiscover this brilliantly comic and moving bestselling novel by the award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. The family is not pleased, as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has ''strangler''s hands''. Katie can''t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband''s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded Trade ReviewBrilliant...very funny * Sunday Telegraph *A painful, funny, humane novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident * The Times *Wry, warm-hearted and entertaining -- Charlotte Moore * Telegraph *Unforgettable * Daily Express *A witty and subtle family drama * Independent on Sunday *
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Cornerstone The Family Corleone
Book SynopsisNew York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise . . . and which will face a violent end.For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family''s future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father''s true occupation. His adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student; but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father''s footsteps, and become a part of the real family business.An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, THE FAMILY CORLEONE carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.Trade ReviewRousing legacy filler. Tracing the rise of Vito Corleone’s New York crime family, it won’t disappoint fans. * Shortlist *Falco ably exploits the tension between civility and brutality. The result is good, messy fun. * Guardian *[C]hannels the original so well that readers will be vividly reminded of Puzo’s strengths . . . His moments of blam-blam-blam are ace. Best of all, he supplies a grand set-piece finale--a parade-that will leave readers dreaming of just one more movie. * Booklist *Falco’s depiction of Vito Corleone captures both the cool reserve of young Vito and the insight he demonstrates as Don. A worthy addition to the lurid world of the Five Families. * Kirkus *Falco’s solid Godfather prequel fills in the backstory of the iconic New York City Mafia family . . . Puzo fans will find this a refreshing change from the inferior sequels. * Publisher's Weekly *
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Cornerstone Reichs K Bones to Ashes
Book SynopsisKathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her first book, Déjà Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the most recent include Bones Are Forever, Flash and Bones and 206 bones.Trade ReviewYou’ll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to find out what happens next … Reichs’ real-life expertise gives her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill for * Daily Express *With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an expert * Sunday Express *Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot, make [her novels] a must read * Jeffery Deaver *Reading Reichs is always an education one way or another. There is plenty of action... but it is the detail that actually makes it gripping * Evening Standard *Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs * Daily News *
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Vintage Publishing City of Bohane
Book SynopsisKevin Barry's story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize in 2007. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The New Yorker. City of Bohane is his first novel.Trade ReviewThe most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years * Irvine Welsh *Hilarious and unpredictable - and always brilliant * Roddy Doyle *Astonishing.This marks him out as a writer of great promise * Guardian *Beautiful, arresting, precise...a compelling creation * Irish Times *An electrifying masterpiece * Joseph O'Connor *
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Cornerstone Circle Of Friends
Book Synopsis''What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?'' HELLO! Magazine_____________________________________________TROUBLE IS BREWING FOR THIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDSGenerous-hearted Benny Hogan and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends for years, growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom...On their first day at University College, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students: beautiful but selfish Nan Mahon and the handsome Jack Foley. But trouble is brewing for Benny and Eve''s new circle of friends and, before long, they find passion, tragedy - and the independence they yearned for._____________________________________________''I absolutely adore Circle of Friends - my ''fave Maeve'' - and I have returned to read it time and time again'' LORRAINE KELLY''If any author can help you survive lockdown, it''s Binchy... Sheer bliss from every page'' VAL HENNESSEY, IRISH DAILY MAIL''I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy [...] Circle of Friends is a good place to start'' JENNY COLGAN, GUARDIAN Best Comfort Reads''Binchy''s novels are never less than entertaining'' SUNDAY TIMES''Full of warmth and pure delight'' WOMAN & HOME''A beloved classic . . . This nostalgic, coming-of-age tale is always worth another read'' IMAGE READS, 5 Brilliant Novels to Devour AgainTrade ReviewIt's an absolute classic and belongs in the annals of Irish literature with all the greats. * VIP Magazine *‘I find myself yearning for the rain-soaked watercolour writing of Maeve Binchy […] Circle of Friends is a good place to start’ -- Jenny Colgan * Guardian *‘What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy’ * Hello! Magazine *A beloved classic [. . .] the central themes of friendships and first loves remain relevant at any age. This nostalgic, coming-of-age tale is always worth another read. * Image Reads *Maeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething cauldron of emotions which lies beneath the surface of everyday life * Irish Independent *
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Cornerstone New York
Book SynopsisEdward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written seven more bestsellers: Russka, a novel of Russia; London; The Forest, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum; two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century; New York; and Paris. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.Trade ReviewRutherfurd's vast and sweeping tome charts the Big Apple's rise from its beginnings in the 17th century to the present day * The Times *Historical fiction at its best * Daily Express *Sweeping, expertly researched ... a brilliant introduction to the history of New York, full of suspense, adventure and passion * News of the World *A masterful tribute to one of the great cities of the world * The Good Book Guide *It is hard to imagine any other writer combining such astonishing depth of research with the imagination and ingenuity to hold it together * The Washington Post *
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HarperCollins Publishers The Book of Lost and Found Sweeping captivating
Book SynopsisSweeping, escapist and heartrending the perfect read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton.LONDON, 1986: Bequeathed an old portrait by her grandmother, Kate Darling begins to unpick the tapestry of her family's secret history in a journey that takes her to Corsica, Paris and back to the heady days of the Roaring Twenties where it all began.PARIS, 1939: Alice Eversley and Thomas Stafford meet once again in the City of Light. Tom is now a world-famous artist, Alice is much-changed too bruised from the events of the last decade. Perhaps they can lose themselves in the love story that ignited by a moonlit lake all those years ago?But sometimes there's no place for happy endings and there's no hiding from the shadow of war . . .Trade ReviewPraise for The Book of Lost and Found: ‘A glamorous, seductively immersive read… [Foley] is a talent to watch’ Sunday Times ‘Wildly romantic and very enjoyable; a super debut’ Daily Mail ‘A fabulously engrossing epic read’ Woman & Home ‘This beautiful heartbreaking read will give you goosebumps’ Fabulous, Sun on Sunday ‘[A] striking debut’ Grazia ‘Tightly plotted with polished prose, this is very good indeed’ Sunday Mirror ‘Epic debut’ Independent ‘A rich, rolling, romantic story that sweeps across time and space’ Saga ‘It's a lovely world to inhabit – not only for the memorable characters and poignant romances, but thanks to an array of glorious settings that whisk you from wild Corsica to buzzing New York via wartime Paris. Perfect escapism.’ Kate Riordan, author of THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH ‘Atmospheric, evocative, epic: a beautifully heart-wrenching story about talent, sacrifice and love' Julie Cohen, Richard & Judy selection for Dear Thing. ‘A classic sweeping love story . . . moving and engrossing’ Katherine Webb
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Penguin Books Ltd Blonde Roots
Book SynopsisFROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 ''A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid''s Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.'' Women''s Prize for Fiction Podcast Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . . In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which ''whytes'' are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.''A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout'' Daily Telegraph ''So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence'' Guardian ''A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant'' Scotland on SundayTrade ReviewA hugely imaginative tale that invites important debates, challenging fundamental perceptions of race, culture and history * Independent on Sunday *This brilliant novel will fulfil [Evaristo's] purpose of making readers view the transatlantic slave trade with fresh eyes * The Times *A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic. * Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast *Reimagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence . . . human and real * Guardian *[Blonde Roots] is a powerful gesture of fearless thematic ownership by one of the UK's most unusual and challenging writers * Independent *As with a Swiftean satire, Evaristo's novel is powerful not for its fantastical elements but for its ability to bring home the horror of historical events * Financial Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Beauty and Sadness
Book SynopsisThe successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc So Far Gone
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Random House The ThreeArched Bridge
Book SynopsisA hard-hitting parable about the conflicts that have ravaged the Balkan states, by Albania's most influential novelist.When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it from falling. Some say the bridge is being damaged by local ferrymen, others blame the vengeful water spirits. But this is a town where terror and superstition reign and a solution must be reached. So it is decreed: a willing person must be plastered into the bridgeA vivid, macabre and wise novel' New York TimesTrade ReviewA vivid, macabre and wise novel * New York Times *His ability to spin eerie parables out of a little-known national history makes his books an addictive pleasure -- Jonathan Romney * Independent on Sunday *A compelling investigation into language and myth, politics and power, by the renowned, infinitely talented Albanian novelist * Booklist *[Kadare] is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting * New York Times *In Ismail Kadare's fictional worlds creation and destruction are entwined, and how he illuminates the human cost of their varied pairings is the source of his greatness as a writer * Chicago Tribune *
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Vintage Publishing Dear Life
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE****WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories.Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.She is so damn good' Anne EnrightDeep and surprising and unsparing' GuardianTrade ReviewDeep and surprising and unsparing -- Helen Simpson * Guardian *As rich and astonishing as anything she has ever done before * New York Review of Books *In this book Munro has laid bare the foundations of her fiction as never before. Lovers of her writing must hope this is not, in fact, her finale. But if it is, it’s spectacular -- Ruth Scurr * Daily Telegraph *Another dazzling collection of short stories, provincial and universal in equal measure -- Sara Wheeler * Observer *A slight sense of withholding gives Munro's prose its gracefulness, and allows intimacy without danger. After many years, many collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her characters lead lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very little about her. This is one of the reasons readers become dizzy with love for Munro. This other reason is that she is so damn good -- Anne Enright * Guardian *Alice Munro is one of our greatest living writers, and this new collection of stories…is essential reading for anyone who cares about literature, storytelling and language, or who savours the deep enjoyment of a writer at the height of her powers…These stories remind us of the world Munro was born into…And they remind us, therefore, how lucky we are to have Munro herself and her subtle, intelligent and true work -- Naomi Alderman * Financial Times *Told with magnificent understatement -- Christina Appleyard * Daily Mail *Deceptively artless...Munro has no need for tricks; there is nothing strange. Just everyday life, in all its plain, abundant richness and sorrow -- Claire Allfree * Metro *Alice Munro…can create a whole world in a short story – these stories are only 20 or 30 pages long, but they live in the mind like novels… These are stories about the stories we tell ourselves, and they are first rate * Evening Standard *
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Penguin Books Ltd The First Rumpole Omnibus Rumpole of the
Book SynopsisWho rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C., to adopt a more judicial attitude, returned in the tender gloaming of each evening-via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street- to She Who Must Be Obeyed? The answer is Horace Rumpole whose legal triumphs, plundering stories into the Oxford Book of English Verse and less-than-salubrious hat are celebrated here in this first omnibus edition.
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Penguin Books Ltd Unsworth B Sacred Hunger
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE''Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man''s iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT'' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent
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Verve Books The Verifiers
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Penguin Books Ltd The Snow Goose And The Small Miracle Essential
Book SynopsisClassic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico''s most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl. THE SMALL MIRACLE is a contemporary fable about a young boy''s love for his dangerously ill donkey.
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Penguin Books Ltd Italian Short Stories Racconti Italiano New
Book SynopsisThis is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Italian culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.Table of ContentsShort Stories in ItalianIntroductionThe Long CrossingLeonardo Siascia (1921-89)Translated by Avril BardoniItalyGoffredo Parise (1929-86)Translated by Nick RobertsThe Girl with the PlaitDacia Maraini (1936- )Translated by Sharon WoodThe Last Channel Italo Calvino (1923-87)Translated by Tim ParksLilithPrimo Levi (1919-87)Translated by Ruth FeldmanThe Island of KomodoSusanna Tamaro (1957- )Translated by Charles Caroe and Chris RobertsWomen by the PoolSandra Petrignani (1952- )Translated by Sharon WoodA Naughty SchoolboyStefano Benni (1947- )Translated by Nick RobertsSaturday AfternoonsAntonio Tabucchi (1943- )Translated by Edward WilliamsNotes on Italian textsAcknowledgments
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Bedford Square Publishers Nearly Departed
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Weatherglass Books We Hexed the Moon
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Bedford Square Publishers Park Avenue
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Duckworth Books River East River West
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HarperCollins Publishers One Hundred Names
Book SynopsisThe uplifting and captivating new novel from the worldwide bestseller Cecelia AhernKitty Logan has lost her wayAs a journalist, she's spent the past few years chasing the big scoops no matter the consequences. When she makes a terrible mistake, she finds herself mired in scandal, her career implodes and even her personal relationships are tested to the limits.At a loss, Kitty finds distraction in a list of one hundred names her late mentor and boss, Constance, has left her. Kitty's been given one final chance, the most important assignment of her life to write the story behind the one hundred names as a tribute piece to Constance. As she tracks down the people on the list and tries to work out what connects them, Kitty meets some extraordinary people.Can these strangers' stories help her finally understand her own?Trade Review‘From the author of PS I Love You, this is the perfect summer’s day read … about what can be discovered if you look again at the ordinary’ Daily Express ‘An exquisitely crafted and poignant tale about finding the beauty that lies within the ordinary. Make space for it in your life.’ Heat ‘A captivating, heartwarming read. 4*’ Closer ‘Funny and touching – the perfect warm hug for an autumnal afternoon’ Woman ‘Completely gripping’ Essentials
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HarperCollins Publishers Beautiful Losers
Book SynopsisOne of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.Revolving around four central and intrinsically flawed characters, Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and F' at the novel's start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks.The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter's classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen's most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion.Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.Trade Review‘A fantasied eroticism which is wildly funny…An exciting book.’ Sunday Times ‘The literary counterpart of “Hair” on the stage and “Easy Rider” on the screen.’ Daily Telegraph ‘The most vivid, fascinating and brave modern novel I have read.’ Michael Ondaatje ‘Gorgeously written…one comes out of it having seen terrible and beautiful visions.’ New York Times ‘Brilliant, explosive, a fountain of talent…James Joyce is not dead…he lives under the name of Cohen…writing from the point of view of Henry Miller.’ Boston Herald ‘Fuses sexuality with spirituality…mystical and profane, poetic and obscene…an invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Cohen assaults the reader with words, images, pyrotechnics and love. It’s a raging, poetic, highly personal and eminently readable book.’ Toronto Star
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HarperCollins Publishers Soft Core
Book SynopsisDrew me in like a whirlpool' NICOLA DINAN 'A beautiful fever dream' KRISTEN ARNETT 'Highly seductive and fun as hell!' TONY TULATHIMUTTE 'A ghostly, feverish love story' ANOTHER MAGAZINE 'Hugely enjoyable dreamlike and erotic' THE TIMES 'Incredible romantic, dangerous and sexy' KATIE BUCKLEY A hottest book of 2025 in Sunday Times Style, Dazed, AnOther and Stylist A blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Francisco's seedy underground. Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she's feeling lost. It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco's shady erotic underground to find him. Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre 'favours' and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody', as well as co-workers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby's whole identity, starting with her underwear. It's not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention. With her grip on reality loosening and the clock ticking, will Baby manage to put together the pieces and find the only man she's ever loved? Or might her past catch up with her first? Manically smart, brutally funny and deeply sexy, Soft Core is a book about desire, fantasy and true love like no other. 'For the generation whose life is an endless stream of dead-end Hinge dates' Sunday Times Style A hugely enjoyable exploration of all the strange things people desire' The Times 'A profound look at sex work and lives unusually lived'Dazed The more you learn about Baby, the more you like her Great fun' Daily Mail Moving beautifully frank a wonderful portrait of San Francisco filled with fantastic imagery' Observer 'Incredible the best book I've read this year romantic, dangerous and sexy. It made me cry' Katie Buckley, author of Hero in Stylist 'Soft Core is not just a book but a fully realized and highly seductive way of life louche, fleshy, and freestyle Deeply impressive and fun as hell!' Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection
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HarperCollins Publishers McDermid V Northanger Abbey
Book Synopsis Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Trade ReviewPraise for Northanger Abbey: 'Val McDermid’s brilliant re-working of Jane Austen’s original shows that innocent, bookish girls in thrall to the supernatural have changed surprisingly little in two centuries. Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery – I loved it.'J.K. ROWLING ‘Brilliant… I was utterly charmed by this newfangled Austen and look forward eagerly to Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma’John Sutherland, Financial Times ‘Funny and brilliantly written’ Jenny Colgan, Guardian ‘Northanger Abbey is funny, clever, subversive and Scottish. No bonnets – all brio’JEANETTE WINTERSON ‘I picked up Northanger Abbey one evening and didn’t stop reading until I’d finished it. It’s an exquisitely realised tale of the uncertainty and brutality of teenage years told with the lightness of touch and humour that Val is famous for. Utter brilliance from McDermid’ SUSAN CALMAN ‘McDermid’s reworking of the original novel is intelligent, amusing and well-written… captures beautifully how it feels to be a teenager… McDermid is a subtle and witty writer and it’s hard to imagine a better evocation of the spirit of the original.’ THE TIMES ‘A fun rendering… McDermid’s Abbey, with its passageways and dark corners, is fantastic, and this novel is a lark.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘McDermid’s great virtue is to have made Austen’s characters seem fresh in the way they would have been for her first readers… I can imagine Jane herself applauding.’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Note perfect… breezy, vital, inventive… Her obvious pleasure in the task is as contagious as Austen’s wit.’ THE SCOTSMAN Praise for The Austen Project: ‘The Austen Project is a breathtaking tribute to Jane Austen. I can’t wait to read the other five “updates” while being reminded to reread, joyfully, the originals’ Washington Post
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HarperCollins Publishers Unless
Book SynopsisDazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize.Breathtakinga masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily MailReta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only Goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. Unless' is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called ordinary' lives.Trade ReviewPraise for Carol Shields: ‘Her perceptions are so quick, her style is so acute, that she can tack a breath to the page and skewer a thought on the wing. It is her speciality to isolate moments that remain distinct in the mind for years, perhaps for a lifetime.’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times ‘Few writers could make a book about what it means to be alone this charming.’ Observer ‘A wonderful, powerful book, written in a style which combines simplicity and elegance. Deeply moving.’ Joanne Harris ‘Shields writes like an angel, awesome in the intelligence of her observations and never less than elegant in expressing them.’ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph ‘It takes the vessel of fiction in its hands and hurls it to the floor…a masterpiece.’ Rachel Cusk, New Statesman ‘As poised and wise a novel as any you will read this year.’ Tim Adams, Observer ‘Our most intelligent and beguiling observer…”Unless” is her most raw and intentful novel yet.’ Penny Perrick, Sunday Times ‘Her wisdom and generosity of spirit are visible at every turn.’ Sunday Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Eleven Minutes
Book SynopsisThe bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex.Eventually, Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, sexual pleasure for its own sake', or risking everything to find her own ''inner light'' and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex.Trade ReviewPRAISE FOR ELEVEN MINUTES “Has a strange and potent chemistry of its own.” The Observer “Coelho has a deceptively simple but elegant writing style which sits well with this strange but gripping tale.” Glasgow Evening Times “Refreshing and insightful…an uplifting read.” What’s On In London “A simply-told fable for our times, highlighting the quest for personal spiritual enlightenment.” Belfast Telegraph Awarded 4 stars in New Woman magazine review
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HarperCollins Publishers Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Book SynopsisFrom the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia.Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband''s work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom''s areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers, and her Muslim neighbours are secretive, watchful. The streets are not a woman''s territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the ''empty'' flat above her head. She has only rumours, no facts to hang on to, and no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.Trade Review‘Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read.' Grace Ingoldby, Sunday Times 'A peculiar fear emanates from this narrative: I dread to think what it did to the writer herself.' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'A Middle Eastern Turn of the Screw with an insidious power to grip.' Robert Irwin, Time Out 'A memorably appalled and hellishly funny novel.' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'A stunning Orwellian nightmare.' Literary Review
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Penguin Books Ltd Nostromo
Book SynopsisNostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad''s finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about today''s Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region''s turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author''s dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.
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HarperCollins Publishers Rage of Angels
Book SynopsisThe international bestseller from the master of suspense.Jennifer Parker is brilliant, beautiful and bold. . She seems unbeatable but is she really?Jennifer Parker is brilliant, beautiful and bold. A lawyer, the most glamorous and successful in America, she dominates the court with her intelligence and charm.When Jennifer falls in love, she can hardly believe her luck. Adam Warner is handsome, smart, destined to be the next President of the United States and marriedJennifer falls pregnant and yet is determined not to allow her broken heart to get in the way of her success. But she soon realises that being alone makes her more vulnerable to those who are determined to destroy herSidney Sheldon gives us his greatest character yet in this bestselling tale of power, love and intrigue.Trade Review‘The fast-moving plot…with new surprises on every page…will keep his fans enthralled.’ Publishers’ Weekly ‘A master storyteller at the top of his game.’ USA Today ‘Compulsively readable.’ New York Times Book Review
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