September 2008 Fiction
Fine Just The Way It Is
$27.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
Fine Just The Way It Is marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of Brokeback Mountain and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives o... More »
Man In The Dark
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.'
So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel abo... More »
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The Elegance Of The Hedgehog
$19.95 (Paperback book / Gallic Books )
Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, ... More »
The Other Hand
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African be... More »
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The Gargoyle
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
After a horrific car accident a man lies in hospital with severe burns to almost all of his body. He endures the pain, the hideous disfigurement and the... More »
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Rancid Pansies
$29.95$24.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, camp as Christmas and a man with his mind on higher things than he has yet managed to reach. A ghost-writer to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, his dr... More »
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The Good Plain Cook
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Serpents Tail )
It's summer 1936, and the world is on the cusp of change, but there's little sign of this in rural Sussex. So when local girl Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for 'a good plain cook', she has no idea what she's in f... More »
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The Impostor
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning'... More »
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The 19th Wife
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )
Set in a secretive offshoot of the Mormons that still practices plural marriage, Jordan, a young man expelled as a teenager from his community (he calls it 'Saudi America') for innocently holding hands with a half-sister... More »
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The Angel Maker
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest - and suspicion - as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom... More »
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The Lieutenant
$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipa... More »
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