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Room - Emma Donoghue

Room
Emma Donoghue

Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2010
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August 2010 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. This is probably the most extraordinary book you will read for a long time. Although the premise has been done before...

The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' - Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a...

In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut

In a Strange Room
Damon Galgut

Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a...

Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides...

C - Tom McCarthy

C
Tom McCarthy

Format: Hardback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born...

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - John Carey

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
John Carey

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography 2010. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 December 2009. A detailed and fascinating biography of the author of Lord of the Flies. In this biography Carey does make...

Larry's Party - Carol Shields

Larry's Party
Carol Shields

Format: Paperback - Released: 12/05/1998
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This won the Orange Prize for fiction back in 1997. We follow Larry through the maze (a subject on which he becomes very astute) of his life, his relationships, his work, physical changes – all is laid bare. A great...

The American Boy - Andrew Taylor

The American Boy
Andrew Taylor

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2004
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Winner of the CWA 2009 Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. Andrew Taylor is a prize-winning and competent crime novelist particularly renowned for his lovely Lydmouth mysteries so I approached this winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger award with great joy. He is a...

Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake - Andrea Gillies

Keeper: A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake
Andrea Gillies

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Winner of the inaugural Wellcome Prize 2009 This book could so easily have been subtitled A Descent into Hell, that it isn’t is thanks to Andrea Gillies exploratory method of care, her seeking to find out just what is happening in...

The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt

The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt

Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2010. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. An engrossing family saga set in the era of the late 19th century and up to the end of World War One. A simpler time,...

The Way Home - George P Pelecanos

The Way Home
George P Pelecanos

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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CWA Gold Dagger Finalist 2010. CWA Judges’ comments: 'A remarkable portrait of a blue collar family whose son is struggling to break free from his criminal past.' The Lovereading view... A crime novel that focuses largely on the relationship between a father and...

The Legacy - Katherine Webb

The Legacy
Katherine Webb

Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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July 2010 Debut of the Month. Voted the public's favourite TV Book Club Summer Read 2010. Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 11 July 2010. August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. July 2010 Editor's...

The Dying Light - Henry Porter

The Dying Light
Henry Porter

Format: Paperback - Released: 16/09/2010
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CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Finalist 2010. A chilling tale of what Britain could so easily become – a police state with stifling surveillances able to manipulate anyone. This raises the question of how far the state should interfere with our...

The Long Song - Andrea Levy

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010. Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize. February 2010 Book of the Month. With the recent television...