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Sylvia Plath
A novel, that was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It is partially based on the author’s own life and descent into mental illness. It presents a…
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Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have…
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Ian McEwan
A short novel of quite remarkable depth, power and poignancy by a writer at the height of his powers
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Andre Schwarz-Bart
Published in sixteen languages and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Andre Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just is considered by many the single greatest novel of the Holocaust.
John Steinbeck
An evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against the background of Dust Bowl…
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Brian Moore
A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for…
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Monica Ali
Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man.
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Jonathan Lethem
From the funked-up, messed-up Brookyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families…
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Richard Yates
Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban…
Lionel Shriver
When he was 15, Kevin murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher. Here, our narrator, Kevin’s mother, Eva, tells the story of his upbringing…
A compulsive womaniser, Michael Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself…
Herta Muller (Y)
Widely regarded as Muller’s best novel, The Land of Green Plums is a beautifully written and unflinching portrayal of life under the totalitarian regime of Ceausescu’s Romania.
Thomas Hardy
‘One of the most compassionate of all writers…you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls’ The Times Jude Fawley is a young…
John Christopher
At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any…
John Fowles
Discover John Fowles’ compelling classic first novel ‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday Times Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and…
Michel Houellebecq
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of…
Ernest Hemingway
Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald…
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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience…
Annie Proulx
A novel of human life and possibility in which one man, following the dramatic death of his wife, heads for the remotest part of Newfoundland, along with his ‘aunt’ and…
David Vann
Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene are trying to rebuild their life together. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary’s grown daughter, Rhoda is…
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Carrie Ryan
Surrounded by death one girl must learn what it is to live. The chilling zombie thriller, soon to be a major film staring Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams.
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Sonya Hartnett
Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he’s afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his…
Albert Camus
Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the…
Anne Tyler
A classic novel from one of America’s greatest living novelists.
Leonard Michaels
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s…
J. G. Ballard
The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism - reissued with a new introduction from Zadie Smith.
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