The Guardian First Book Award 2012 Shortlist
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
The Art of Fielding
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are... Buy or find out more→
The Yellow Birds
$26.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their... Buy or find out more→
Sandstorm
$30.00 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
The overthrow of Muamar Gadaffi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft. The author was in Libya when Gadaffi... Buy or find out more→
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
When Janie Ryan is born, she's in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted she'd be sly. In the hospital, her family approached her suspiciously, so... Buy or find out more→