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Trust Me
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'No Karen said. "I ve been waiting for you."When Bobby and Lloyd decide to rob local restaurant owner Lou Starr s home in the night, they don t reckon on being propositioned about an even bigger scam by Lou s so-called girlfriend Karen. But after yet another bad decision in her life Karen has been (...)
Quiver
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'Kate McCall s husband has been killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. In the aftermath, Jack, a charismatic but troubled ex-con from Kate s past, shows up. When Luke takes off on his own for their rural Michigan cabin, Kate and Jack follow, but they re not the only ones (...)
Tales of Ballycumbe
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Here, now, listen, I ll tell you a tale . . .Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, anguish and emptiness. In search of advice, young Evans Stafford calls at the home of friend (...)
The Leavetaking
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'The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a (...)
The Pornographer
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' Couples argue about a lot of things money, seeing old partners, football, having children, looking after children…and football. Clothes, washing up…and football. If you think about the relationships you ve had, football is probably the cause of more arguments than anything else. From TV s (...)
That They May Face the Rising Sun
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'A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man (...)
Never Let Me Go
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A clear frontrunner to be the year s most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.' Sunday TimesIn one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a (...)
When We Were Orphans
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'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious (...)
The Unconsoled
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'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita BrooknerRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - (...)
An Artist of the Floating World
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'It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings (...)
A Pale View of Hills
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In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her (...)
The Immigrant
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'An engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage, from the prize-winning author of Home and Difficult Daughters.Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and frustrated by how little life has to offer. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; (...)
Hoors
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'Small Town, Fife. Andy and Vicky were meant to be getting married tomorrow.The trouble is, Andy s stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn t survive it. The finest pleasures that Amsterdam and Hamburg have to offer, together with a mile-high fling with a budget-airline stewardess, (...)
Mum Shop
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'Ever wished you could swap your mum? Be careful what you wish for . . .MUM TROUBLE!Oli wants to swap his mum for someone who ll let him eat loads of pepperoni pizza and watch Real Blood Bath Murders on telly.Mother 44 drives a tank and trains secret agents.But she s also hatching an evil (...)
Birthday Letters
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'Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his (...)
Tales from Ovid
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'When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account (...)
Crow
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'Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, (...)
Gabriel's Gift
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The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father.Fending for himself, as well as providing emotional support to (...)
The Black Album
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The Black Album is the second novel by Hanif Kureishi, one of the most praised and influential writers of our times. It is set in London in 1989, the year after the second acid-fuelled 'summer of love' - also the year in which the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced his infamous fatwa upon Salman (...)
Buddha of Suburbia
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Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award A wonderful novel. I doubt I will read a funnier one, or one with more heart, this year, possibly this decade. Angela Carter, GuardianThe hero of Hanif Kureishi s first novel is Karim, a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and (...)