The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
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The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
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Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with husband Andre and son Simon. Their elderly neighbour, Elizabeth, has an accident and her granddaughter, Jodie comes to nurse her. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty.
The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig
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FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTerence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden g ...Show more
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
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Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises susp ...Show more
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
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"Comic, dirty and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line" V S Naipaul
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
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The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful ...Show more
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
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'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - Vogue For fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire - alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters - that asks: who gets to tell our stories? Ingrid Yang is desperate ...Show more
The Mud of a Century by Yūka Ishii
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Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT compa ...Show more
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler ...Show more
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
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THE SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘Truly one of the most beautiful stories you’ll ever read’ JOANNA CANNON ‘I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I’d read… a future classic’ CLARE MACKINTOSH This is the story of Isaac and the Egg, a grieving young man and his unforgettable new frie ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Category: General | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a s ...Show more