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John Updike It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic... | James Baldwin; Colm Toibin After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's... |
Vladimir Nabokov A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross... | Sylvia Plath A student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the... |
Barry Hines Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a... | Muriel Spark Presents the story of the girls of a good family. |
Mario Puzo Offers a portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. This book presents the story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its position at the core... | Mary McCarthy; Candace Bushnell The original SEX AND THE CITY. First published in 1963, THE GROUP, set in the 1930s, follows the lives of eight college friends as they begin their adult lives. 'A... |
Edna O'Brien A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the first volume. | Thomas Pynchon The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? |
Jorge Luis Borges Contains the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. This work presents a humourous commentary. | Margaret Atwood 'Funny, sharp, witty, clever' - The Times |
Yukio Mishima A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an... | Angela Carter; Carmen Callil The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE |
Kingsley Amis Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to... | John McGahern A novel about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and... |