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 (...)
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; (...)
Such Darling Dodos
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'Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes (...)
The Bradshaw Variations
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'Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his (...)
The Last Train to Scarborough
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'A riveting new adventure for Jim Stringer, Andrew Martin's celebrated Steam Detective .It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment. It s not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last (...)
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 (...)
The Dark
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'The Dark, John McGahern s second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between (...)
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 (...)
Winterland
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'Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love (...)
Cabal
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When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously (...)