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The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht

$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette

Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.

'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).

As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more 


The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber

Winner 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Dive into the most moving and beautiful novel of the year, from the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.

The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn beween the warm he... Buy or find out more 



Home
Marilynne Robinson

$16.95 – Paperback book / Virago

Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Following on from the magnificent GILEAD, HOME takes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the pr... Buy or find out more 


The Road Home
Rose Tremain

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

Winner of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Ficiton.

Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter.

Readers will become totally in... Buy or find out more 



We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

$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 


On Beauty
Zadie Smith

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an A... Buy or find out more 



Half Of A Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s‚ at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.

The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during ... Buy or find out more 


Small Island
Andrea Levy

$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline

It is 1948 in an England still shaken by war. At 21 Nevern Street, London, Queenie Bligh takes into her house lodgers who have recently arrived from Jamaica. What else could she do when her husband, Bernard, never return... Buy or find out more 



When I Lived In Modern Times
Linda Grant

$22.99 – Paperback book / Granta

This is my story. Scratch a Jew and you've got a story. If you don't like elaborate picaresques full of unlikely events and tortuous explanations, steer clear of the Jews. If you want things to be straight forward, find ... Buy or find out more 


 

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

$23.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.

A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued... Buy or find out more 



Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville

$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador

Douglas Cheesman is 55 years old, and the kind of man you would definitely not look at twice. But he can tell you more than you'll ever want to know about bridges. Harley Savage, big and plain, is a thrice-married woman ... Buy or find out more 


Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

$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 



Larry's Party
Carol Shields

$25.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. In the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's maze, Larry discovers the passion of his life. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with mazes may hel... Buy or find out more 


A Spell of Winter
Helen Dunmore

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction

A Spell of Winter is set during the early years of the twentieth century, during the period before, during and immediately after the First World War.

Catherine and her bro... Buy or find out more 



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