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Sense of an Ending
By Julian Barnes
Hardback
Published 04-Aug-2011
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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.
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Stranger's Child
By Alan Hollinghurst
Hardback
Published 16-Apr-2011
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Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize
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On Canaan's Side
By Sebastian Barry
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Published 04-Aug-2011
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Opens as Lilly Bere mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.
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There But for the
By Ali Smith
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Published 02-Jun-2011
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There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house. As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country.
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New Finnish Grammar
By Diego Marani
Paperback
Published 05-May-2011
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One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can identifying him. When he regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. From a few things found on the man the doctor, who is originally from Finland, believes him to be a sailor and a fellow countryman, who somehow or other has ended up in Trieste. The doctor dedicates himself to teaching the man Finnish, beginning the reconstruction of the identity of Sampo Karjalainen, leading the missing man to return to Finland in search of his identity and his past.
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Tiger's Wife
By Tea Obreht
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Published 23-Jun-2011
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Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011!
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Visit from the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan
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Published 09-Jun-2011
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A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It is about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates.-
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Dance with Dragons
By George R.R. Martin
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Published 12-Jul-2011
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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume in the series.
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True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
By David Almond
Hardback
Published 01-Sep-2011
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I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes.
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Embassytown
By China Mieville
Hardback
Published 06-May-2011
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The enthralling new novel from the award-winning author of Kraken and The City & The City
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