The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells; Charlotte Collins (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The international bestseller, translated by the award-winning translator of The Tobacconist, Charlotte Collins Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature 'Original and captivating . . . its quiet charm in straightforward prose belies its sharp insight into the human condition' Stylist 'It is impo ...Show more
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: the Bailey's Prize longlisted novel by Heather O'Neill
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Category: Fiction
'Joyful, funny and vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel'The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better . . . I began underlining truths I had hungered for' Miranda July'Makes me think of comets and live wires . . . raises goosebumps' Helen Oyeyemi'A fairytale laced with gunpowd ...Show more
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read."--Gary Shteyngart "A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Spea ...Show more
The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
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Category: Fiction
The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable' Louise O'Neill'The Blood Miracles has all the brio, street smarts and vicious lin ...Show more
These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper
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Category: Fiction
Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . . SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author ...Show more
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
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Category: Fiction
"A frenetically imaginative first effort, booming with vitality and originality . . . Kalfar's voice is distinct enough to leave tread marks."-Jennifer Senior, New York TimesShortlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2017 First Novel PrizeNew York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceBest New Fiction -- Wall ...Show more
Larchfield by Polly Clark
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Category: Fiction
'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect ...Show more
A Hero Born Volume I of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong; Anna Holmwood (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes Ser.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. China: 1200 A.D. The Song Empire has been invaded by its warlike Jurchen neighbours from the north. Half its territory and its historic capital ...Show more
About the Size of the Universe by Jon Kalman Stefansson
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Category: Fiction
A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers. At the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life - the lives of many generations of Ari's family - of the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sor ...Show more
Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson
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Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influences shaped Icelandic culture from the '50s to the dawning of the n ...Show more
After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in the cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close platonic relationship with her neighbour, a sickly young man who shares her inter ...Show more
The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker
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Category: Fiction
NOVEMBER 24, 2004 The day of the tragedy. The end of a brotherhood. The Baltimore Boys. The Goldman Gang. That was what they called Marcus Goldman and his cousins Woody and Hillel. Three brilliant young men with dazzling futures ahead of them, before their kingdom crumbled beneath the weight of lies, je ...Show more