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This House is Haunted

By John Boyne

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Published 25-Apr-2013


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1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor.


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Rosie Project

By Graeme Simsion

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Published 11-Apr-2013


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Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie. Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife.


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By Zadie Smith

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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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Gift of Rain

By Tan Eng

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Published 27-May-2008


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An epic set in Malaya predominantly during the time of the Japanese invasion. It tells how an Anglo-Chinese youth, Philip Hutton, struggles to protect his family as the Imperial Japanese war machine crushes the vestiges of British rule in Penang.


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Garden of Evening Mists

By Tan Twan Eng

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Published 02-May-2013


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In the highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the Emperor of Japan.


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Pre-War House and Other Stories

By Alison Moore

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Published 15-May-2013


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Box Of Birds

By Charles Fernyhough

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Published 07-May-2013


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If you believe you are just a bundle of nerve cells and chemical reactions, does that change the way it feels to fall in love?


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Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

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Published 30-May-2013


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* The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US - Now to be published by Virago


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Capital

By John Lanchester

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Published 03-Jan-2013


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The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour, a family of Pakistani shop owners, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive an anonymous postcard one day with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want?


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Ghana Must Go

By Taiye Selasi

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Published 04-Apr-2013


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Tells the story of a family who take generations to make a good life for themselves only to see it crumble in an evening. This title tells the story of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the long, troubled journeys that they make to bring themselves together again.


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