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Observer books of the year 2012
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By Zadie Smith
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated.
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When it Happens to You
By Molly Ringwald
Hardback
Published 09-Aug-2012
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A stunning novel in stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan by the iconic actress Molly Ringwald.
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Joy
By Jonathan Lee
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and change in unexpected ways.
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At Last
By Edward St Aubyn
Paperback
Published 06-Apr-2012
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'At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the Melrose novels are masterpieces' Maggie O'Farrell
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
By Maria Semple
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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An irresistibly funny, brilliantly original coming-of-age novel
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Lifeboat
By Charlotte Rogan
Hardback
Published 29-Mar-2012
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* THE LIFEBOAT is a daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Sachs is on trial; in flashback, we learn why ...
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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace
By Kate Summerscale
Hardback
Published 30-Apr-2012
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From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal
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Big Screen
By David Thomson
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, the author tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live. It tells the story of the movies and how they have shaped us.
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History of Opera
By Carolyn Abbate
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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Opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten.
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Big Music
By Kirsty Gunn
Hardback
Published 05-Jul-2012
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John Sutherland of The Grey House, is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world.
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