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Guardian books of the year 2012
Train Dreams
By Denis Johnson
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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The highly acclaimed new novel by the National Book Award winnng author of Tree of Smoke.
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New Selected Journals, 1939-1995
By Stephen Spender
Hardback
Published 05-Jul-2012
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A dedication to Stephen Spender, who in 1932 wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. It provides a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in a autobiographical form.
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Canada
By Richard Ford
Paperback
Published 11-Oct-2012
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford's masterpiece A New York Times Notable Book 2012
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Wartime Journals
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hardback
Published 30-Oct-2012
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As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). This title reveals the experiences of Trevor-Roper.
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Out There
By Jamie McKendrick
Paperback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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A collection of poems that starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes.
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Nonsense
By Christopher Reid
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Opens with a coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California. In this title, his strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him.
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Edge of Empires
By Donald Rayfield
Hardback
Published 25-Sep-2012
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Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with today's volatile President Saakashvili. It also deals with the country's struggles with the empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate it.
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Scenes from Early Life
By Philip Hensher
Paperback
Published 12-Apr-2012
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Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'.
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John Saturnall's Feast
By Lawrence Norfolk
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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From the bestselling author of Lempriere's Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding new historical novel
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Absolution
By Patrick Flanery
Hardback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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Set in modern South Africa, an elderly acclaimed author searches for a daughter lost amongst the wreckage of her mother's failings and a nation's shadowed history. With this muscular debut novel, Flanery announces himself, quite simply, as a future literary sensation. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize
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