Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: fiction a-z
The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded s ...Show more
The German House by Annette Hess; Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator)
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Category: fiction a-z
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expo ...Show more
The Glass Hotel (PB) by Emily St. John Mandel
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Category: fiction a-z
'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of ThronesThe extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven.Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmos ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
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Category: fiction a-z
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing ea ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
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Category: true crime
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Ancient Light by John Banville
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
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Category: biography & memoir
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
The ABC Murders (Poirot #13) by Agatha Christie
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Category: crime & thriller | Series: Poirot Ser.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot Alice Asher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Ch ...Show more
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more
May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
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Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction--A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful ...Show more
A Burning by Megha MAJUMDAR
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Category: fiction a-z
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent bec ...Show more