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Margaret Atwood The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of... | Walter Tevis; Lionel Shriver To Fast Eddie Felsen, a pool hustler, there was only one thing that mattered: to make the big time and the big money in the world of pool by beating... |
Beryl Bainbridge Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. | Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel; Hugh... Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carroll's college, the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict... |
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... | Jostein Gaarder A spellbinding adventure, blending the threads of philosophy, fantasy and reality. |
Martin Amis The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of... | Koushun Takami "Top of the class" now has a whole new meaning ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Ronald Meyer A collection of one novella and six short stories - "The Gambler", "Bobok", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "A Christmas Party and a Wedding", "A Nasty Story" and "The... | Paul Auster A quiet masterpiece: two chancers take on two eccentric millionaires in a game of high-stakes poker, with Kafkaesque consequences. |
Michael Chabon The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. | Ronan Bennett St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play... |
Walter Jon Williams A wide-ranging conspiracy is spread through the world of online gaming - but the deaths are real. | Nelson Algren; Kurt Vonnegut Tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that... |
Hermann Hesse In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge -... | Walter Tevis; Lionel Shriver Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the... |