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Gavin Corbett With the voice of Anthony Sonaghan - a modern-day Traveller born to a powerful, mythic inheritance - Gavin Corbett summons a world we thought we knew as we have not... | John Lanchester The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour, a family of Pakistani shop owners, the young football... |
Grace McCleen Brought up by a fundamentalist father and bullied at school, Judith finds that her boundaries between her imginary world and the real one are breaking down.
finds comfort in her imaginary... | Hugh Howey In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. To live, you must follow the... |
Marjorie Celona Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a... | Ayana Mathis How do you prepare your children for a world you know is cruel? From the revivalist tents of Alabama to Vietnam, to the black middle-class enclave in the heart of... |
Romesh Gunesekera A lyrical, beguiling story of slavery, freedom, identity and forbidden love from the Booker-shortlisted author of Reef | Julie Otsuka Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had... |
Elif Shafak Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children... | Paula Lichtarowicz What if a book had been written to explain a world constructed only for you? What if that world suddenly fell apart? Calamity Leek needs a new book, but she's... |
Nadeem Aslam Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes... | Dan Brown New hardback featuring Dan Brown's renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's enduring... |
Taiye Selasi Tells the story of a family who take generations to make a good life for themselves only to see it crumble in an evening. This title tells the story of... | Brian Kimberling A birdwatcher's guide to the human heart - an unconventional coming of age story from an unforgettable new voice that will appeal to fans of David Vann and Annie Proulx. |
John le Carre Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign... | Ian McEwan Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the... |