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Jess Walter Small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior gave up his day-job and gambled everything on setting up a website offering financial advice. Then he woke up one day in the middle of... | Mary Gaitskill Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years after, this book looks... |
Gary Shteyngart Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with... | |
Elizabeth Hardwick; Geoffrey O'Brien | E. L. Doctorow; Al Alvarez Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J... |
Tobias Wolff A novel from an American writer. | Oakley Hall; Robert Stone |
Theodore Dreiser; Larzer Ziff Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and... | Yiyun Li The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer. |
Denis Johnson A dark, indelible epic about the other side of the American Dream | Wallace Stegner; Jackson J. Benson Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound... |
Willa Cather In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only... | T. Coraghessan Boyle Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside... |
Ron Rash Lady Macbeth rewritten in this novel of passion and revenge set in the USA | Tony Hillerman Even after his retirement, Joe Leaphorn is asked help. The problem is with one of his own cases - his 'last case', unsolved, and one that continues to haunt him... |