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Siri Hustvedt Siri Hustvedt's mesmerising second novel, 'startlingly good, tautly written and very sexy' Marie Claire. | Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. |
Tatjana Soli 'A tremendously evocative debut, a love story set in the hallucinatory atmosphere of war, described in translucent, fever-dream prose.' Janice Y. K. Lee, author of the bestselling 'The Piano Teacher'... | Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meun;... 'If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance...to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained'... |
Henry James; Philip Horne; David Lodge Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention... | Umberto Eco Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects... |
Charles Baudelaire; James N. McGowan The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its... | Ray Bradbury An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of 'Farenheit 451'. |
Amitav Ghosh Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008: a stunningly vibrant novel from Amitav Ghosh | James Hamilton-Paterson Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany... |
Janet Fitch A novel that is as beautiful and as dangerous as the Oleander Chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her booclub Over a million copies in print | Iris Murdoch After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored... |
John Mortimer Rumpole was last seen in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Things aren't looking good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something wrong... | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules:... |
Gillian Slovo * From the author of ICE ROAD, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, comes a love story that cuts across race and culture | Deborah Moggach Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he... |