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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

By Mark Haddon

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Published 01-Apr-2004


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Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.


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Binocular Vision

By Edith Pearlman

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Published 14-Feb-2013


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The collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Chekhov


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Kingfishers Catch Fire

By Rumer Godden

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Published 07-Feb-2013


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Black Narcissus

By Rumer Godden

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Published 07-Feb-2013


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Giving Up the Ghost

By Hilary Mantel

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Published 07-Jun-2004


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From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.


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Orphan Master's Son

By Adam Johnson

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Published 14-Feb-2013


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Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents - it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for beatings. He knows he is special when he is picked as a spy and kidnapper for his country, the glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea.


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Brief Loves That Live Forever

By Andrei Makine

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Published 28-Mar-2013


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Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet Union...


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Boneland

By Alan Garner

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Published 30-Aug-2012


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The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, 'Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'.


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Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

By Sue Townsend

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Published 13-Sep-2012


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The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance. Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking.


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Red House

By Mark Haddon

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Published 25-Apr-2013


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Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks.


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