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The Gathering
Anne Enright

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )

Man Booker Prize Winner 2007 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... More »

The Inheritance Of Loss
Kiran Desai

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay... More »


The Sea
John Banville

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 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 trau... More »

The Line Of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst

$50.00 (Hardcover book / Picador )

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Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre

$24.95 (Compact disc / Penguin )

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. News of the tragedy serves as open invitation to the media and soon the quirky ... More »

Life Of Pi
Yann Martel

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Canongate )

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, one zebra (with broken leg), an orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal... More »


True History Of The Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

With Ned Kelly as narrator, this is the heart-rending story of a young boy growing up in the grinding poverty of colonial Victoria and of a young man defiantly resisting the wealth and power of those who wish to destroy ... More »

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The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

$25.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge'. More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura s mysterious death. The compelling story of two sisters and their secrets, set against a ... More »


Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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The God Of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

$24.99 (Paperback book / Flamingo )

The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a high-caste family in a small village in India. A compelling story which marries the deepest, smallest personal emotions with an epic narrative. Winner Booker Prize 19... More »

Last Orders
Graham Swift

$22.00 (Paperback book / Picador )

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Ghost Road
Pat Barker

$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

The Ghost Road is the final volume of The Regeneration Trilogy. The earlier volumes, Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, are also published in Penguin. The Ghost Road is a sta... More »

How Late It Was How Late
James Kelman

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Minerva )

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

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, anonymou... More »


Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth

$26.00 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

'That very rare thing, a top-notch historical novel...Unsworth's theme is human rivalry; his subject is the slave trade of the mid eighteenth century...Sacred Hunger is a tremendous performance' - D.J. Taylor, Sunday Tim... More »

The Famished Road
Ben Okri

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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Possession: A Romance
A. S. Byatt

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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The Remains Of The Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

$23.95 (Paperback book / Faber )

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic,... More »


Oscar And Lucinda
Peter Carey

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken w... More »

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Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world and in the process, my own'. Gradua... More »


The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis

$19.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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The Bone People
Keri Hulme

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, t... More »


Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner

$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

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Life And Times Of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee

$27.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally

$25.00 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )

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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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 ... More »


Rites Of Passage
William Golding

$19.65 (Paperback book / Faber )

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, stinking ... More »

Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald

$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

An attractive new-cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald’s award-winning comic novel. Offshore is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community which rises and falls with the tide of the Thames on Batte... More »


The Sea The Sea
Iris Murdoch

$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in orde... More »

Staying On
Paul Scott

$19.70 (Paperback book / Mandarin )

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Saville
David Storey

$26.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

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Heat And Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

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The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

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 i... More »

The Siege Of Krishnapur
J G Farrell

$23.00 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )

Set in India in 1857, the year of bloody rebellion, this Booker Prize winner tells of a Victorian outpost confident of its superior culture and military strength-until it finds itself under siege. Jacket Description: "In... More »


G: A Novel
John Berger

$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

This novel centres on G, who seems impervious to everything around him. His interests are purely sexual, his crowning ideal fulfilment. Yet, in the end this is enough for the politics of desire to expose the criminal pol... More »

In A Free State
V. S. Naipul

$22.00 (Paperback book / )

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