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William Ryan Introducing Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, and an outstanding new voice in historical crime fiction... | Kathryn Stockett Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child... |
William Goldman Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his... | Katherine Mansfield; Lorna Sage Contains fifteen stories, many of which are set in the author's native New Zealand, and others in England and the French Riviera. |
William S. Burroughs Intends to satirize modern society in a poetic story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure. | William Trevor Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows Gaults are no longer welcome in... |
Kate Grenville 'A compelling narrative ... an intelligent, spare, always engrossing imagining of first contact, in which the fictionalization of history allows a comment about current postcolonial race relationships which escapes the... | William Gay The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition... |
Katherine Dunn A story which mixes tenderness, terror, suspense and dark comedy. It is told by Olympia Binewski, a bald albino hunchback dwarf and members of the American carnival family. Al and... | William Faulkner Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi... |
W. Somerset Maugham; Nicholas... Traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature. | Kate Morton The haunting second novel from the author of the No.1 bestseller, The House at Riverton |
Kate Atkinson Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a... | William Makepeace Thackeray; Andrew... Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the... |
Katherine Webb Two sisters. One heart-breaking secret. And a past that cannot stay buried. | William Nicholson Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back into her life. Suddenly passion and excitement are... |