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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Breath

by Tim Winton

It's funny, but you never think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident....

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Spare Room

by Helen Garner

'First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the planet's positive energy flow, or something? She would think so. I made it up nicely with a fresh fitted sheet, the pale pink one,...

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Addition

by Toni Jordan

Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts.

The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (920); the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to finish it. Grace counts...

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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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