Few Short Notes On Tropical Butterflies
John Murray

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Like his characters, Mr. Murray, who trained as a doctor before he became a teaching-writing fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, has a fascination with detail, with the tiny, distinguishing specifics that can reveal a p... More »

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

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"God's Grace "(1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood-a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's prota... More »

Hidden Assassins
Robert Wilson

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The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building in Seville confirms everybody's terrorist fears. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble, the media interest and political pressure intensif... More »

Ice
Vladimir Sorokin

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Haruki Murakami in Japan; Javier Mar’ as in Spain; W.G. Sebald in Germany; Michel Houellebecq in France– these are names that are indelibly associated with contemporary writing in those countries, writers whose work, tho... More »

Here
Nathalie Sarraute

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An experimental novel by the well-regarded French novelist. More »

Reasons I Won't Be Coming
Elliot Perlman

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Gay Love Poetry
Powell Neill Ed

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This wide-ranging and superbly entertaining anthology of poetry stretches from Catullus and Ovid through Marlowe and Michelangelo, on to Wait Whitman and Oscar Wilde, and finally to such modems as Thom Gunn, J. R. Ackerl... More »

Arlington Park
Rachel Cusk

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Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the... More »

Mortals
Norman Rush

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Ray Finch is teaching school in Botswana, but he is also a CIA agent who is getting fed up with the agency. And he fears that his wife is having an affair. When the CIA sends him on assignment to help stop a rebellion, R... More »

On The Night Plain
Lennon J Robert

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From the critically acclaimed author of The Light of Falling Stars and The Funnies, a beautifully written story about a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a sheep-ranching family torn apart by tragedy.

Hoping ... More »

Waxwings
Jonathan Raban

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Jonathan Raban's caustic novel takes place in post-Y2K Seattle, where Tom Janeway is caught in the trajectory of current events (WTO riots, Al Qaeda fears) and his own deteriorating life, which includes the departure of ... More »

Procedure
Harry Mulisch

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"[E]lusive and fascinating metaphysical fiction....Definitely not hammock reading. This is exhilarating, mind-bending stuff by an author who probes ever deeper into the mysteries that matter most--and keeps getting bette... More »

Pocket Mirror
Janet Frame

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Poems by Janet Frame. More »

Aloft
Chang-rae Lee

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Jerry Battle's family is large, multicultural, and riddled with problems. His Korean wife drowned in the swimming pool 20 years ago. He has broken up with his longtime Puerto Rican girlfriend, whom he misses. His daughte... More »

Virago Book Of Wicked Verse
Jill Dawson

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This wonderfully sharp and witty collection of poems - feisty, bawdy, erotic, irreverent - is an illuminating comment on women's ability to transform poetry into a medium of subversiveness. There are jibes at hypocrisy a... More »

Scented Gardens For The Blind
Janet Frame

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An account of the troubles that befall a young girl when her parents' marriage collapses. Erlene Glace, a New Zealand schoolgirl, stops speaking altogether shortly after her father Edward leaves the family to settle in E... More »

Reservoir
Janet Frame

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The Reservoir is a collection of stories, sketches, poetic fragments, and memoirs-as-short-story. Set mostly in the author's native New Zealand, these works depict humankind's battle against disillusionment and emptiness... More »

Living In The Maniototo
Janet Frame

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A comic fantasy portraying the fortunes of a wandering novelist. Mavis Halleton, the heroine, is a woman of some fortitude and no small independence who manages to survive writer's block and widowhood as she makes her wa... More »

Agape Agape
William Gaddis

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The late William Gaddis wrote four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination ... More »

Dirty Bits For Girls
India Knight

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Edited and introduced by India Knight, THE DIRTY BITS - FOR GIRLS is an unmissable collection. From zipless action in Fear of Flying to jolly romps with Jilly Cooper; from transgressions with a priest in The Thorn Birds ... More »

Shiralee
Darcy Niland

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Everyone has their cross to bear and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who has to suffer his resentment at having her in tow. But then, as the real reasons for Macau... More »

Every Move You Make
David Malouf

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Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly ... More »

Memory :An Anthology
Wood, Harriet, Harvey and Byatt

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our act... More »

Peeling The Onion
Gunter Grass

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Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Gr... More »

Vittorio The Vampire
Anne Rice

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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

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Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel

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Hailed as a "writer of subtlety and depth," (Joyce Carol Oates) Hilary Mantel turns her dark genius on the world of psychics in this smart, unsettling novel.

A paragon of efficiency, Colette took the next natural step af... More »

Imperium
Robert Harris

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From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii comes the most provocative and brilliant novel of antiquity since I, Claudius — a cautionary tale of Cicero, the greatest orator of all time, and his extraordinary st... More »

Shrimp And The Anemone
Hartley L P

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There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepo... More »

Story Of A Life
Aharon Appelfeld

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When World War Two broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowitz. After losing his mother, murdered early on in the Nazi occupation, and then his f... More »

Away
Amy Bloom

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Away is the extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb. Her family destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York, she is taken under the wing of Mr. Reuben Bu... More »

Babylon
Victor Pelevin

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Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern menta... More »

Deadly Space Between
Patricia Duncker

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Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a ba... More »

Retreat From Love
Colette

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Retreat from Love is one of the best of Colette's celebrated 'Claudine' novels. It was the first to be written under her own name, without the influence of her husband from whom she had recently separated. A tale of the ... More »

Museum Of Doubt
James Meek

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The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The strange and mysterious characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by parano... More »

Emerald Germs Of Ireland
Patrick Mccabe

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"...Mr. McCabe presents Pat's exploits not as a series of grim outrages but as...merry escapism....But too much jest does a disservice to the real darkness that haunts this material, and that erupts only suddenly and bit... More »