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While few poets make good novelists (and vice versa), those that do tend to write memorably beautiful prose. Amongst those who bridged the divide in style are Booker-shortlisted Gerard Woodward and Adam Foulds, Anne Michael's elegaic story of the relocation of some of Egypt's ancient monuments and John Burnside's menacing modern folk-tale The Devil's Footprints.
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Sylvia Plath A student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the... | Vladimir Nabokov; John Updike; ... Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati... |
Margaret Atwood For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away... | Raymond Carver Shows how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. |
Stella Duffy A brilliant new novel from the author of Singling out the Couples, State of Happiness and Parallel Lies | Philip Larkin An account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind. |
Gyorgy Faludy Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, the author journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North... | Roberto Bolano An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America's pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666. |
Leonard Cohen One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a... | Adam Foulds After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist... |
Sophie Hannah The fifth suspense novel yet from critically acclaimed queen of psychological crime Sophie Hannah. | Walter de la Mare Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society... |
Tobias Hill In Sparta, a city that masks age-old secrets and private enmities, a close-knit group are excavating. When Ben, lost and aimless, comes to Greece to escape private failures, he is... | Owen Sheers The women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. |
Simon Armitage So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up... | Alan Sillitoe With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th... |