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Half Of A Yellow Sun
Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

There has been a lot of debate lately about the legitimacy of fiction depicting history. Half of a Yellow Sun is a timely example of just the kind of service fiction can provide in the recreation of time, place and polit... More »

On Beauty
Zadie Smith

$29.95 (Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton )

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer r... 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... More »

Small Island
Andrea Levy

$32.95 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )

Reviewed by Rt. Hon. Paul Boateng MP Andrea Levy in Small Island brilliantly captures a world before the Race Relations Act and multiculturalism. A mastery of dialogue and capacity to capture mood and place makes this no... More »


Property
Valerie Martin

$28.00 (Paperback book / Warner Books )

Property is Valerie Martin's powerful, startling novel set in America's deep South in the early nineteenth century: a story of freedom, both political and personal. Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Lou... More »

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

$24.99 (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 ... 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 ... More »

When I Lived In Modern Times
Linda Grant

$21.95 (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 ... More »

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Larrys 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... More »

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )

A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during the Second World War and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and humanist Athos Roussos. There, in the seclus... More »


A Spell Of Winter
Helen Dunmore

$18.60 (Trade paperback / Penguin )

Catherine and her brother, Rob, do not know why they have been abandoned by their parents. In the house of their grandfather, "the man from nowhere," they make a passionate refuge for themselves against the terror of fam... More »

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