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2011 Shortlist
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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Pure
By Andrew Miller
Hardback
Published 09-Jun-2011
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The author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed INGENIOUS PAIN returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris. The 2011 Costa Book of the Year.
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
By Louisa Young
Hardback
Published 17-Mar-2011
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Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight.
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City of Bohane
By Kevin Barry
Paperback
Published 31-Mar-2011
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Last Hundred Days
By Patrick McGuinness
Paperback
Published 01-Jun-2011
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The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu's demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows.
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Thin Paths
By Julia Blackburn
Hardback
Published 07-Jul-2011
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The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. This village was at the heart of the conflict between the fascists and the partisans, so they learnt a lot about death and fear and hunger and how men and women could hide like foxes in the mountains. This title celebrates the songlines of this place.
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Now All Roads Lead to France
By Matthew Hollis
Hardback
Published 04-Aug-2011
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Presents an account of author's final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in the war.
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Charles Dickens
By Claire Tomalin
Hardback
Published 06-Oct-2011
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Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist. This title paints a portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius. It offers an examination of Dickens we deserve.
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Bees
By Carol Ann Duffy
Hardback
Published 07-Oct-2011
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The new collection from the Poet Laureate
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Night
By David Harsent
Paperback
Published 20-Jan-2011
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A work in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart.
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