Tall Man

by Chloe Hooper

When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer, he was dead within forty-five minutes of being locked up. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but the...

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Brooklyn

by Colm Toibin

Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot...

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The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and now Oryx and Crake for the 2003 Booker prize. She has won...

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Good to a Fault

by Marina Endicott

Absorbed in her own failings, Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara - against all habit and comfort - moves...

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The Boat

by Nam Le

'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his daughter ('Meeting Elise'), a boy's coming of age in a rough Victorian fishing town ('Halflead Bay'),...

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Nocturnes

by Kazuo Ishiguro

'It was our third time playing The Godfather theme since lunch ...'

In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the Piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-...

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Anthologist

by Nicholson Baker

I just adored this hilarious book by Nicholson Baker. Paul Chowder is a poet (well, sometimes) and he's trying to write an introduction to an anthology of poetry but he's also rather down on his luck - his live-in girlfriend has recently gotten fed up...

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Ordinary Thunderstorms

by William Boyd

A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of "Restless," a national bestseller and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award.
It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam...

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A Week in December

by Sebastian Faulks

Structured like a thriller, A Week in December takes place over the course of a single week at the end of 2008. Set in London, it brings together an intriguing cast of characters whose lives apparently run on parallel lines but - as gradually becomes...

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Infinities

by John Banville

In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea, "John Banville gives us a dazzling new book that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals.
On a languid midsummer's day, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical...

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