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'A feisty variation on the lone and jilted theme, Shyama Perera's lament for lost love actually cheers you up' She What do you do when your husband leaves you and your two children for another woman? After ten years and two kids, Nina never expected Buster to walk...
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Sceptre
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2014-04-10
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'A powerful and subtle writer...a remarkable novel' Spectator'Chilling and tragic' Ruth RendellIn the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South...
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Sceptre
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2014-04-10
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Brilliantly entertaining, A Family Daughter might also be the most insightful novel about families and love that you will read this year.It's 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox...
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John Murray
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2014-04-10
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'A wonderfully upbeat story celebrating optimism and friendship' The Express Paddington, London, 1966 Mala's story begins. As a young girl growing up in the late '60s and early '70s, life is full of hope for Mala as she flits from Notting Hill to Marble Arch flanked...
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Sceptre
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2014-04-10
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'A NOVEL TO LOVE AND TREASURE' PHILIPPA GREGORY'REMARKABLE' MICHAEL ONDAATJE'POIGNANTLY MOVING' JOYCE CAROL OATES Salzburg, 1946. A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling, jewel-encrusted, peacock-shaped pendant. And three men - an...
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Two Roads
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2014-04-10
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction'Wise, witty, and beautifully written, Liars and Saints is that rare and wondrous thing: a literary novel you don't want to put down' Helen FieldingLiars and Saints is an utterly compelling portrait of a family, the twists and...
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John Murray
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2014-04-10
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During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they...
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Sceptre
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2014-04-10
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Off the coast of Liguria, 1713 - accompanied by his valet Thomas Noon and tutor Lucius Jelbourne, young aristocrat Lord Stilwell is bound for Genoa and that essential part of an English gentleman's education; the Grand Tour of Italy. Jelbourne has long been wary of...
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Abacus
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2014-04-03
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Against the window a pale hand, a gentle wave that was not a wave at all. A distant female face veiled by the sweep of a curtain. Then stillness. Bendix remained transfixed for a full minute. It was most certainly a woman'Early eighteenth-century London, and two doctors...
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Abacus
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2014-04-03
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Set in the 18th century's Golden Age of Piracy, THE REQUIEM SHARK is the tale of a young recruit, William Williams and his forced apprenticeship to Bartholomew Roberts, slaver turned pirate Captain. Enlisted first as a musician, then as the Captain's biographer,...
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Abacus
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2014-04-03
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*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD*** Outrageously funny and completely original, Chop Chop by Simon Wroe is the story of a hapless young chef in the crazed world of the professional kitchen, featuring lust, revenge, neurosis and haute cuisine.'A...
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Penguin
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2014-04-03
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'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times'Full of pathos, spirit and iridescent innocence' Independent on SundayThe first novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel12-year-old Baby is used to turmoil in her life. Her mother is long dead, her...
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Riverrun
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2014-03-31
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TRANSLATED BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER AND OLGA MEERSONPlatonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, their optimism turns to violence...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-03-31
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In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to...
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John Murray
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2014-03-27
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'Nothing short of stunning . . . something very powerful and unusual indeed' Guardian'Part-thriller, part adventure story, part social drama and utterly absorbing' Daily Mail'Hunt is a talented writer. On my watch this novel would win the Booker' The Times1913: Dinners,...
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Penguin
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2014-03-27
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“A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book.” —Antonya Nelson, author of Bound Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and...
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Algonquin Books
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2014-03-25
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A fast-moving cyberpunk thriller set in a world of thinking cities, ruthless corporations and mad orbital AIs.A novel that links the groundbreaking works of William Gibson to the new generation of writers such as Charlie Stross and Hannu Rajaniemi.Ajay had a future...
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Gollancz
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2014-03-13
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This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.
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John Murray
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2014-03-13
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This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown's most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by...
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John Murray
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2014-03-13
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The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life. George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the...
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John Murray
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2014-03-13
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