American Fiction 21st Century
Brief History Of The Dead
$0.00 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Remember me when I’m gone’ just took on a whole new meaning … Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the coldest, most remote places on earth. Her friends set out i... Buy or find out more →
You Shall Know Our Velocity
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just... Buy or find out more →
Middlesex
$21.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do ... Buy or find out more →
Everything Is Illuminated
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by... Buy or find out more →
Three Junes
$24.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
In this captivating debut novel, Julia Glass depicts the life and loves of the McLeod family during three crucial summers spanning a decade. Paul McLeod, patriarch of a Scottish family and a retired newspaper editor and ... Buy or find out more →
Water For Elephants
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s. It's a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fa... Buy or find out more →
Dream Life Of Sukhanov
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Stepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are clever. But the year is 1985 and t... Buy or find out more →
This Book Will Save Your Life
$23.95 – Paperback book / Granta
An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his... Buy or find out more →
The Kite Runner
$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him; for he ... Buy or find out more →
Tree Of Smoke
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
This extraordinary Vietnam war novel is something like Apocalypse Now on paper – sometimes taut, sometimes rambling, often unhinged. The characters include novice CIA man Skip Sands; his Kurtz-like uncle; two brothers wh... Buy or find out more →
Known World
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
In their comments on the novel the judges said "The Known World begins with the death, at the age of 31, of Henry Townsend, a black farmer in Manchester County... Buy or find out more →
The Pursuit Of Happiness
$14.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
'It's the way things work, isn't it? Chance, happenstance..and choice. Things might happen accidentally...but then we make choices. That's what we have to live with; not the accident, the fluke - but the choices we make ... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Life Of Bees
$22.99 – Paperback book / Headline
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was 4. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for f... Buy or find out more →
The History of Love
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's sti... Buy or find out more →
Namesake
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
When her grandmother learned of Ashimas pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the familys first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby un... Buy or find out more →
Fortress Of Solitude
$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber
From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and... Buy or find out more →
Property
$22.95 – Paperback book / Abacus
Property is Valerie Martin's powerful, startling novel set in America's deep South in the early nineteenth century.
Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family an... Buy or find out more →
Black Girl White Girl
$0.00 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift – a 19–year–old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college – her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into th... Buy or find out more →
Bear Boy
$22.95 – Paperback book / Phoenix
In the outskirts of the Bronx in 1930s New York, the Mitwisser clan are German refugees who survive at the whim of their vagabond benefactor, James A'Bair. James is heir to the fortune amassed by his father, the author o... Buy or find out more →
Bel Canto
$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
The poignant – and at times very funny – new novel from the author of The Magician’s Assistant, winner of the Orange Prize. Latin terrorists storm an international gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to ... Buy or find out more →
Sex Wars
$0.00 – Paperback book / Headline
Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing a new spirit in their wake. Among them is Freydeh, who ... Buy or find out more →
Echo Maker
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to ... Buy or find out more →
Gilead
$24.99 – Paperback book / Virago
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.
'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is see... Buy or find out more →
Empire Falls
$26.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Richard Russo - from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man-has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel - winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fict... Buy or find out more →
The Lovely Bones
$17.99 – Paperback book / Picador
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him o... Buy or find out more →
We Need To Talk About Kevin
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Kevin Katchadourian killed seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher, shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letter... Buy or find out more →
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Vladimir is a young Russian-American immigrant whose capitalist dreams and desire for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow into uncharted territory.
From the dreary confines of New York City’s Emma Lazarus I... Buy or find out more →
Evidence Of Things Unseen
$22.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of thi... Buy or find out more →
Old School
$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his ado... Buy or find out more →