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A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time... reads...

Its the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage...

A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolano fans bookshelf...the sentences whizz over your head like bullets Daily Telegraph Antwerp was Roberto Bolanos first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years...

Eye of the Storm, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children - Sir Basil, a celebrated actor, and Princesse de Lascabanes, an adoptive French aristocrat - await her demise. But in death, as in life,...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of LAST ORDERS. On an Autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton receives the news that his soldier brother Tom has been killed in Iraq. What follows is a gripping account of things that touch and...

The culmination of theMelrose sequence of novels, that included the Booker shortlistedMothers Milk. It follows Patrick Melrose as he attends his mothers funeral, and reflects on his life, finding that orphanhood isnt necessarily the liberation he...

The Man Booker Prize shortlisted and UK bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of THE LINE OF BEAUTY. In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings the charming, aristocratic poet Cecil Valance to his familys modest home. As we follow the...

Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded his thoughts and his impressions of White House life,...

In his first novel since THE CORRECTIONS, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises...

Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as...

Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE HOURS, Cunninghams masterly new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, BY NIGHTFALL makes us think...

Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of astreet rab in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric...

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly...

Martin and Alex finish university and rent a house in the middle of nowhere with their girlfriends. While the girls try to find jobs, the boys spend the day sleeping, and the tensions build. But when a hedonistic American student arrives, events...

Sebolds mesmerizing and luminous first novel - national bestseller - builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy, following an unspeakable...

The latest novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author. On a midsummers day in Arden, the Godley family gather at their dying fathers bedside. But the gods are unable to resist interfering. A wise look at the terrible and wonderful plight of...

The gallery was cold and lighted only by the faint gray shimmer on the screen. Back by the north wall the darkness was nearly complete and the man standing alone moved a hand toward his face, repeating, ever so slowly, the action of a figure on...

William Big Bill Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned by journalist...

After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga, was left alone and bereft in a city seething with tension. A century later,...

As intimate as it is elemental, Tim Wintons beautiful new novel recounts the forces that can shape and break a life Bruce Pike, or Pikelet, has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night....