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Zoe Williams' contemporary classics
Zoe William’s is a Guardian columnist and author of Bring it on, Baby (2010). A voracious reader, Zoe claims her books have nothing in common except for the fact she has read them all during the last year. An eclectic list indeed.
Waiting for the Barbarians
By J M Coetzee
Paperback
Published 02-Sep-2004
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is.
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Animal Spirits
By George Akerlof
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Published 01-Feb-2010
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The global financial crisis has made it clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations. This title challenges the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and puts forward a vision that transforms economics and restores prosperity. It asserts the necessity of an active government role in economic policymaking.
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Brooklyn
By Colm Toibin
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Published 04-Mar-2010
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It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.
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Asylum
By Patrick McGrath
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Published 28-Aug-1997
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As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession. His experience is extensive, and is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair.
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Homicide
By David Simon
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Published 04-Jun-2009
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The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the cente of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of men confronted by the darkest of American visions. This book presents an account of casework and an investigation into our culture of violence.
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