The Sellout Paul Beatty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s27mm ISBN13: 9781786071477 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-147-7 ISBN10: 1786071479 x Description: 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sellout Paul Beatty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm ISBN13: 9781786071460 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-146-0 ISBN10: 1786071460 x Description: 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What's more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hot Milk Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h222mm x w144mm x s24mm 362g ISBN13: 9780241146545 ISBN13: 978-0-241-14654-5 ISBN10: 0241146542 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast.
Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years. Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hot Milk Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780241968031 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96803-1 ISBN10: 0241968038 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years. Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Contraband
Publisher:
Saraband
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781910192146 ISBN13: 978-1-910192-14-6 ISBN10: 1910192147 x Description: SHORTLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. WINNER of the SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK of the YEAR 2016. The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Ottessa Moshfegh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g ISBN13: 9781784701468 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-146-8 ISBN10: 1784701467 x
Description: This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016 and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2016. It was also selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph. "Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling." (Robert DouglasFairhurst, The Times). The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All That Man is: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 David Szalay (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h204mm x w144mm x s39mm 543g ISBN13: 9780224099769 ISBN13: 978-0-224-09976-9 ISBN10: 0224099760 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All That Man is: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 David Szalay (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 309g ISBN13: 9780099593690 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959369-0 ISBN10: 0099593696 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 333g ISBN13: 9781783782673 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-267-3 ISBN10: 1783782676
x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h222mm x w144mm x s27mm 448g ISBN13: 9781911215356 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-35-6 ISBN10: 1911215353 x Description: This book is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. It was selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily Telegraph. When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins. David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. In this mesmerising allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Schooldays of Jesus: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
21 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm 368g ISBN13: 9781784705336 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-533-6 ISBN10: 1784705330 x Description: This book is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. It is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily Telegraph. When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins. David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. In this mesmerising allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Serious Sweet: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A. L. Kennedy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
18 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 362g ISBN13: 9780099587439 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958743-9 ISBN10: 0099587432 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a bankrupt accountant - two words you don't want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV. Living on Telegraph Hill, she can see London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety. As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London - passing through 24 hours that will change them both for ever - they tell a very unusual, unbearably moving love story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h206mm x w138mm x s21mm 280g ISBN13: 9780241248775 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24877-5 ISBN10: 0241248779 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found. Look for Elizabeth Strout's highly anticipated new work of fiction, Anything Is Possible, which is available for pre-order now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 154g ISBN13: 9780241248782 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24878-2 ISBN10: 0241248787 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city, got married and had children. But this unexpected visit leaves her doubting the life she's made: wondering what is lost and what has yet to be found. Look for Elizabeth Strout's highly anticipated new work of fiction, Anything Is Possible, which is available for pre-order now. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The North Water Ian McGuire (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Scribner UK
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback No EU Toy Safety hazard warning applicable No warning 352pp h198mm x w130mm x s24mm ISBN13: 9781471151262 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-5126-2 ISBN10: 1471151263 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2017 -- Winner of the RSL Encore Award 2017 -- A ship sets sail with a killer on board ...1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster ...'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel 'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hystopia David Means (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
26 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h240mm x w162mm x s30mm 595g ISBN13: 9780571330119 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33011-9 ISBN10: 0571330118 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas "enfolded" - wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy - while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the Psych Corps and reenacting atrocities on civilians. This destabilized, alternate version of American history is the vision of the twenty-two-year-old veteran Eugene Allen, who has returned from Vietnam to write the book at the center of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. In Hystopia, Means brings his full talent to bear on the crazy reality of trauma, both national and personal. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia invites us to consider whether our traumas can ever be truly overcome. The answers it offers are wildly inventive, deeply rooted in its characters, and wrung from the author's own heart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hystopia David Means (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 278g ISBN13: 9780571330133 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33013-3 ISBN10: 0571330134 x Description: At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called Hystopia. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third term in office, and a new federal agency maintains the mental health of returning soldiers by wiping their memories through drugs and therapy, while those beyond help roam at will, reenacting the atrocities they have witnessed. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia is a wild, gonzo experience about the nature of trauma, homecoming, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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The Many Wyl Menmuir (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Salt Publishing
Publisher:
Salt Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 160pp h198mm x w127mm x s10mm ISBN13: 9781784630485 ISBN13: 978-1-78463-048-5 ISBN10: 1784630489 x Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of 2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move, but starts to renovate the house for his wife, Lauren to join him there. When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house they are disturbed and intrigued by the presence of the incomer, intrigue that begins to verge on obsession. And the longer Timothy stays, the more deeply he becomes entangled in the unsettling experience of life in the small village. Ethan, a fisherman, is particularly perturbed by Timothy's arrival, but accedes to Timothy's request to take him out to sea. They set out along the polluted coastline, hauling in weird fish from the contaminated sea, catches that are bought in whole and removed from the village. Timothy starts to ask questions about the previous resident of his house, Perran, questions to which he receives only oblique answers and increasing hostility. As Timothy forges on despite the villagers' animosity and the code of silence around Perran, he starts to question what has brought him to this place and is forced to confront a painful truth. The Many is an unsettling tale that explores the impact of loss and the devastation that hits when the foundations on which we rely are swept away. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Work Like Any Other: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Virginia Reeves (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Scribner UK
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback No EU Toy Safety hazard warning applicable No warning 272pp h198mm x w130mm x s19mm ISBN13: 9781471152238 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-5223-8 ISBN10: 1471152235 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life's work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, his marriage and his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie and their son seems back within Roscoe's grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and - no longer an electrician or even a farmer - he must now carve out a place in a violent new world. 'Gorgeously spare and brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other is a striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of family and guilt, and learning how to escape them ...Virginia Reeves is a major new talent' Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of The Son 'An exceptional novel . ..I absolutely loved it' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds 'Assured and absorbing ...a potent mix of icy honesty and heart-wrenching tenderness' Jim Crace, author of Harvest and Being Dead _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 688pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm ISBN13: 9781780746357 ISBN13: 978-1-78074-635-7 ISBN10: 1780746350 x Description: *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 319g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099593584 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959358-4 ISBN10: 0099593580 x Description: This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, propsers, only to discover all that he has lost. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 848pp h198mm x w129mm x s51mm 565g illustrations ISBN13: 9781847084323 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-432-3 ISBN10: 184708432X x Description: It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel (Author) Series:
Edition:
TV tie-in edition
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w130mm 370g ISBN13: 9780008126438 ISBN13: 978-0-00-812643-8 ISBN10: 0008126437 x Description: The greatest literary sensation of recent times - and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. With this historic win for 'Bring Up the Bodies', Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for 'Wolf Hall' in 2009). By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king's new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days. An astounding literary accomplishment, 'Bring Up the Bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Film tie-in edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 154g A-format paperback ISBN13: 9781784705633 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-563-3 ISBN10: 1784705632 x Description: Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years). Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
03 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 267g ISBN13: 9781408809938 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-0993-8 ISBN10: 1408809931 x Description: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel (Author) Series:
Edition:
TV tie-in edition
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 688pp h197mm x w130mm 470g ISBN13: 9780008126445 ISBN13: 978-0-00-812644-5 ISBN10: 0008126445 x Description: The greatest literary sensation of recent times - and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII's courtiers. Both winners of the Man Booker Prize and already hugely successful stage plays, WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have now been transformed into a BBC television series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, bringing history to life for a whole new audience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 250g ISBN13: 9781848878082 ISBN13: 978-1-84887-808-2 ISBN10: 1848878087 x Description: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gathering Anne Enright (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099501633 ISBN13: 978-0-09-950163-3 ISBN10: 0099501635 x Description: Winner of the Man Booker Prize. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9780141027289 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102728-9 ISBN10: 0141027282 x Description: The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home. Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world. 'A Magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness' Hermione Lee, chair of the Man Booker Prize judges 'Poised, elegant and assured ...breaks out into extraordinary beauty' The Times 'Desai's bold, original voice, and her ability to deal in a grand narratives with a deft comic touch that affectionately recalls some of the masters of Indian fiction, makes hers a novel to reread and remembered' Independent Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York. She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sea John Banville (Author) Series:
Edition:
Reprints
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w130mm x s17mm 200g ISBN13: 9780330483292 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48329-2 ISBN10: 0330483293 x Description: 'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. 'A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I'll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years' Rick Gekoski, The Times 'Poetry seems to come easily to Banville. There is so much to applaud in this book that it deserves more than one reading' Literary Review 'A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel' Spectator _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic Alan Hollinghurst (Author) Sebastian Faulks (Introduction by) Series:
Picador Classics 16
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 512pp h197mm x w130mm x s33mm 429g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781447275183 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7518-3 ISBN10: 1447275187
x Description: With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash -- twice -- three times -- a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance? In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death D. B. C. Pierre (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h196mm x w125mm x s18mm 229g ISBN13: 9780571215164 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21516-4 ISBN10: 0571215165 This Product Replaces: 9780571215171 x Description: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003 WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing ...Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set ...Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces ...have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice ...this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Mail on Sunday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life of Pi Yann Martel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 236g ISBN13: 9781782118695 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-869-5 ISBN10: 1782118691 This Product Replaces: 9781841953922 x Description: One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan -- and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Feb 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w126mm x s27mm 348g ISBN13: 9780571270156 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27015-6 ISBN10: 0571270158 This Product Replaces: 9780571207930 x Description: 'I lost my own father at 12 years of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
19 May 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 656pp h196mm x w129mm x s43mm 462g ISBN13: 9781860498800 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-880-0 ISBN10: 1860498809 x Description: Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Disgrace J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Oct 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 172g ISBN13: 9780099540984 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954098-4 ISBN10: 0099540983 x Description: This title includes a reading guide. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middleaged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Amsterdam: Winner of the Booker Prize 1998 Ian McEwan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Apr 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 182g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099272779 ISBN13: 978-0-09-927277-9 ISBN10: 0099272776 x Description: On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge.Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences neither has foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Flamingo
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
05 May 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 260g ISBN13: 9780006550686 ISBN13: 978-0-00-655068-6 ISBN10: 0006550681 x Description: 'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt). Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Orders Graham Swift (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm ISBN13: 9780330518222 ISBN13: 978-0-330-51822-2 ISBN10: 0330518224 x Description: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Last Orders confirms his reputation as one of the great contemporary chroniclers of landscape and memory' Observer His finest book to date; emotionally charged and technically superb' Times Literary Supplement Inspired ...His finest novel yet' Guardian A triumph' Sunday Times Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ghost Road Pat Barker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780141030951 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103095-1 ISBN10: 014103095X This Product Replaces: 9780140236286 x Description: The Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. WINNER OF THE 1995 BOOKER PRIZE. 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation ...The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War. 'An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful, deeply moving' Barry Unsworth, Sunday Times 'Harrowing, original, unforgettable' Independent 'A triumph' Sunday Times Other titles in the trilogy: Regeneration The Eye in the Door _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How Late it Was, How Late James Kelman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w128mm x s23mm 290g ISBN13: 9780749398835 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9883-5 ISBN10: 0749398833 This Product Replaces: 9780099546276 x Description: Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: Winner of the Booker Prize 1993 Roddy Doyle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780099530398 ISBN13: 978-0-09-953039-8 ISBN10: 0099530392 x Description: Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy's world is falling apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm ISBN13: 9780747572596 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-7259-6 ISBN10: 0747572593 x Description: The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Feb 1993
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 640pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 437g ISBN13: 9780140119930 ISBN13: 978-0-14-011993-0 ISBN10: 0140119930 x Description: WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping ...SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 ...it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" ...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed ...AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Famished Road Ben Okri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Feb 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 405g illustrations B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099929307 ISBN13: 978-0-09-992930-7 ISBN10: 0099929309 x Description: So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Possession: A Romance (Winner of the Booker Prize 1990) A. S. Byatt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 362g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099503927 ISBN13: 978-0-09-950392-7 ISBN10: 0099503921 x Description: Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w126mm x s16mm 212g ISBN13: 9780571258246 ISBN13: 978-0-571-25824-6 ISBN10: 0571258247 This Product Replaces: 9780571275588 x Description: 'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Feb 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w126mm x s34mm 435g ISBN13: 9780571270163 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27016-3 ISBN10: 0571270166 x Description: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oscar and Lucinda: Faber Modern Classics Peter Carey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s39mm 518g ISBN13: 9780571322848 ISBN13: 978-0-571-32284-8 ISBN10: 0571322840 x Description: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moon Tiger Penelope Lively (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 May 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 153g ISBN13: 9780141044842 ISBN13: 978-0-14-104484-2 ISBN10: 0141044845 x Description: Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world ...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. 'Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler 'A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes' Daily Telegraph 'Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished' Literary Review Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Old Devils Kingsley Amis (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 274g ISBN13: 9780099461050 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946105-0 ISBN10: 0099461056 x Description: Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
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The Bone People Keri Hulme (Author) Series:
Edition:
Reprints
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
09 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 560pp h197mm x w130mm x s35mm 398g ISBN13: 9780330485418 ISBN13: 978-0-330-48541-8 ISBN10: 0330485415 x Description: Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy. 'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Feb 1994
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 138g ISBN13: 9780140147476 ISBN13: 978-0-14-014747-6 ISBN10: 0140147470 x Description: Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed ...'A classic ...a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now' Spectator _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
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Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9780099479154 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947915-4 ISBN10: 009947915X x Description: In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w131mm x s29mm 302g ISBN13: 9781473639034 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-3903-4 ISBN10: 1473639034 x Description: REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author.In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie (Author) Series:
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Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 672pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 503g ISBN13: 9780099511892 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951189-2 ISBN10: 0099511894 x Description: Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rites of Passage William Golding (Author) Robert McCrum (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
07 Nov 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h195mm x w127mm x s20mm 252g ISBN13: 9780571298549 ISBN13: 978-0-571-29854-9 ISBN10: 0571298540 This Product Replaces: 9780571191444 x Description: This is the first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (Author) Alan Hollinghurst (Introduction by) Series:
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Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 208pp h197mm x w130mm x s12mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007320967 ISBN13: 978-0-00-732096-7 ISBN10: 0007320965 x Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames. There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch (Author) John Burnside (Introduction by) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 560pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 383g ISBN13: 9780099284093 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928409-3 ISBN10: 009928409X x Description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDE When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Staying on Paul Scott (Author) Series:
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Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Sep 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 180g ISBN13: 9780099443193 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944319-3 ISBN10: 0099443198 x Description: Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny and deeply moving, "Staying On" is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Saville David Storey (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
25 Jun 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 560pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 383g ISBN13: 9780099274087 ISBN13: 978-0-09-927408-7 ISBN10: 0099274086 x Description: Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h197mm x w131mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9780349000138 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00013-8 ISBN10: 0349000131 x Description: The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer (Author) Series:
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
21 Nov 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm ISBN13: 9780747578246 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-7824-6 ISBN10: 0747578249 x Description: Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Holiday Stanley Middleton (Author) Series:
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Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h197mm x w129mm x s16mm 187g ISBN13: 9780099591924 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959192-4 ISBN10: 0099591928 x Description: This is the Booker Prize-winning novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia', Stanley Middleton. Rejacketed and republished by Windmill for the anniversary of its 1974 win. Edwin Fisher has fled to a seaside resort of his childhood past to try to come to terms with the death of his baby son and the collapse of his marriage to Meg. On this strange and lonely holiday, as he seeks to understand what went wrong, Edwin must find some way to think about what he has been and decide upon where he can go next. "At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable...The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour". (A.S. Byatt). "We need Stanley Middleton to remind us what the novel is about. Holiday is vintage Middleton...One has to look at nineteenth-century writing for comparable storytelling". (Sunday Times). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Siege of Krishnapur J.G. Farrell (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Jul 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h196mm x w132mm x s27mm 276g Re-numbered item (originally 1857990811) ISBN13: 9781857994919 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-491-9 ISBN10: 1857994914 x Description: In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable. The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
G John Berger (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 273g ISBN13: 9781408834343 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-3434-3 ISBN10: 1408834340 x Description: In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine's success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their liaisons with him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi's attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps, G. is a brilliant novel about the search for
intimacy in the turmoil of history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Elected Member Bernice Rubens (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1988
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp h196mm x w131mm x s15mm 156g ISBN13: 9780349130224 ISBN13: 978-0-349-13022-4 ISBN10: 0349130221 x Description: Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes...until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. For Norman, his committal to a mental hospital represents the ultimate act of betrayal. For Rbbi Zweck, Norman's father, his son's deterioration is a bitter reminder of his own guilt and failure. Only Bella, the unmarried sister, still in her childhood white ankle socks, can reach across the abyss of pain to bring father and son the elusive peace which they both desperately crave. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Troubles J.G. Farrell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 Aug 1993
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp h197mm x w134mm x s29mm 312g ISBN13: 9781857990188 ISBN13: 978-1-85799-018-8 ISBN10: 1857990188 x Description: Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer. So hypnotic are the faded charms of the Majestic, the Major is almost unaware of the gathering storm. But this is Ireland in 1919 - and the struggle for independence is about to explode with brutal force. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________