Jules Renard; Lucinda Rogers; Richard... Illustrated with pen drawings, this title features short verse and prose poems. | Damon Galgut SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys. |
Tristan Garcia As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on the decade and on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds - one in which love turns... | Carol Topolski Everyone knows about Virginia: about her stellar reputation as a gynaecologist; about her commitment to her women patients. But who knows about the knives? Everyone knows about Faisal too: about... |
Jane Harris As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with... | Piers Paul Read Jomier broods. He broods about the present. He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more... |
Helen Walsh An extraordinary account of a young woman's journey into motherhood | Jeff Lindsay Everyone's favourite serial killer is back and deadlier than ever... |
Jo Baker An epic, involving and exquisitely told story of inheritance and chance as it plays out in one family, across one century and four generations. | Stella Tillyard An epic romantic novel of the Peninsular War from the acclaimed historian, author of Aristocrats. |
Manguel; Manguel, Alberto Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? This title deals with this question by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours... | Helen Humphreys When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But... |
Will Self A remarkable mixture of fact, fancy, memoir and invention. | Jonas Jonasson On his one-hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure. The international bestselling phenomenon by Swedish sensation Jonas... |
NoViolet Bulawayo Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn't all bad, though. There's mischief and adventure, games of Find bin... | Amity Gaige Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric... |