Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
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Category: fiction a-z
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: fiction a-z
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
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Category: fiction a-z
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
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Category: fiction a-z
'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on ...Show more
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
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Category: fiction a-z
As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Cat ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
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Category: fiction a-z
Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: fiction a-z
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
Voss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957 by Patrick White
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Category: fiction a-z
"The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic editionSet in nineteenth-century Australia, Vossis the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a na ve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive f ...Show more
The Book of Form and Emptiness: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 by Ruth Ozeki
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Category: fiction a-z
If you let it - if you listen - a book could change your life. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking- teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household ...Show more
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
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Category: fiction a-z
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
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Category: fiction a-z
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismember ...Show more