The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
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The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
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Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with husband Andre and son Simon. Their elderly neighbour, Elizabeth, has an accident and her granddaughter, Jodie comes to nurse her. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty.
The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig
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FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTerence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden g ...Show more
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
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Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises susp ...Show more
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
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"Comic, dirty and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line" V S Naipaul
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
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The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful ...Show more
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
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'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - Vogue For fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire - alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters - that asks: who gets to tell our stories? Ingrid Yang is desperate ...Show more
The Mud of a Century by Yūka Ishii
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Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT compa ...Show more
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
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Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in 'the unlovely and unloved'. Yet in contrast to her father, she is not in the business of pest extermination, but pest relocation. Katya's unconventional approach brings her to the attention of a property developer whose luxury estate on the fringes of C ...Show more
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
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"A brilliant novel on international finance ... you will have serious trouble putting this book down." - Forbes. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, this was the first thriller set in the world money market that was written by an actual financial expert. Its fast-paced, suspenseful plot cent ...Show more
Rainsongs by Sue Hubbard
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A poignant story of transformation, conjuring the rugged beauty of County Kerry's coastline, by an award-winning writer. Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a virtually abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland for reasons even she is uncertain of. Looking out from her ...Show more