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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 |
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... | Cormac McCarthy Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
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... | Jim Crace Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpiece. |
Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell; Eddie... | Liz Jensen An environmental disaster movie of a thriller. |
J. D. Salinger Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate... | 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... |
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... | 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... | 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... |
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. | 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... |