The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Shaffer

A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society' is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart.

It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea...

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White Tiger

by Adiga Aravind

Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer... Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes...

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La's Orchestra Saves the World

by Alexander McCall Smith

Thank you for the music… It’s 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, the generous and determined widow, La, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart. She...

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Home

by Mariylnne Robinson

'Home' is Marilynne Robinson'a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town as her Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Gilead'. This is Jack s story.

Jack, the prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of...

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The Given Day

by Dennis Lehane

Boston 1918

Danny Coughlin, son of Captain Thomas Coughlin, is Police Department Royalty. Danny is in charge of the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End. Political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. Drawn into...

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Gargoyle

by Andrew Davidson

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

After a horrific car accident a man lies in hospital with severe burns to almost all of his body. He endures the pain, the hideous disfigurement and the excruciating treatments...

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American Wife

by Curtis Sittenfeld

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial.

But it is Alice's own story -...

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The Slap

by Christos Tsiolkas

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his...

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The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently....

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The Hour I First Believed

by Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb explores the consequences of war and violence on human lives blown irrevocably off course. When 47 yearold teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife Maureen a nurse move to Littleton Colorado they both get jobs at Columbine High School.

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Someone Knows My Name

by Lawrence Hill

The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long‚ it must be for a reason.

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina‚...

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My Sister, My Love

by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oatess most controversial novel to date and certainly her most satirical 'My Sister My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike' recounts the saga of a murder through the eyes of the ninteenyearold "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense...

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Ice

by Louis Nowra

An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to the perfectly preserved body of a young sailor, who died forty years before.

A man lost in grief for his wife is...

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Sweetsmoke

by David Fuller

I will just come out and say it, Cassius. Hoke hesitated, and Cassius saw a tremor in his hand. Apparently the news had been a blow to Hoke as well. She is dead Cassius, that is all there is to it, Emoline Justice is dead, and that is that. The year is...

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Wanting

by Richard Flanagan

It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most...

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

The second volume in the bestselling Millennium Trilogy... Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trafficking trade are murdered and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable...

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