American Fiction 21st Century
Brief History Of The Dead
$22.95 (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... More »
You Shall Know Our Velocity
$22.95 (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... More »
Everything Is Illuminated
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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... More »
Corrections
$25.00 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
A panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. At once a moving family drama and a dissection of American society in an age of greed and global... 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 ... 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... 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... 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... 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 ... More »
What I Loved
$25.00 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are culture... More »
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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... More »
Known World
$25.00 (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... More »
Pursuit Of Happiness
$23.95 (Trade paperback / 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 ... 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... More »
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... 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... More »
Black Girl White Girl
$25.00 (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... More »
My Sisters Keeper
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Expect to be kept up all night by Picoult's latest novel, but
it's much more than a page-turner
it's a fascinating character study framed by a complex, gripping
story. Told in alternating perspectives by the engaging,
fa... More »
Echo Maker
$24.95 (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 ... More »
Empire Falls
$24.95 (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... More »
Lovely Bones
$22.95 (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... 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... More »
Russian Debutantes Handbook
$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
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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... 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... More »