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No matter what your beliefs, there's no denying that faith is a powerful force. Some of us lose it and some of us find it and this fundamental shift in outlook can make for powerful fiction. Amongst our favourites are Rebecca Goldstein's conflict between orthodox Judaism and the pure logic of numbers, Harry Mulisch's epic tale of divine destiny and Jim Crace's alternative take on Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness.
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Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein's brilliant international bestseller is now available in paperback. | Marilynne Robinson * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading |
Marilynne Robinson From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped- for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review... | Peter Carey Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on... |
Hanif Kureishi Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father... | Zadie Smith Deals with - among many other things - friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of... |
Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell; Eddie... | Jeanette Winterson Jeanette is adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for... |
Mohsin Hamid 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So... | Cormac McCarthy Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
Hilary Mantel A mysterious visitor brings welcome novelty to a drab Yorkshire town; Mantel has a dry wit reminiscent of Waugh and Cold Comfort Farm. | John Steinbeck California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of... |
Monica Ali Still a teenager Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage to a man twenty years older. Moved away from her childhood village, Nazneen is moved to London, not knowing a... | Soren Kierkegaard Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and... |
Will Self What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff;... When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for... |