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Peter Carey

His Illegal Self

PaperbackEngels9780571231546 5-3-2009

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Meer

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Professor John Carey

William Golding

PaperbackEngels9780571231645 2-9-2010

William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire. Meer

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David (Author) Peace

Tokyo Year Zero

PaperbackEngels9780571231997 4-9-2008

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Meer

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David (Author) Peace

Tokyo Redux

PaperbackEngels9780571232017 7-4-2022

an extraordinary novel.' Hideo Yokoyama'Many novels are hyped as "polyphonic", but Peace's now complete Tokyo trilogy truly is, brilliantly summoning forth multiple voices in the soundscape of a city gripped by seismic change. Meer

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David (Author) Peace

Occupied City

PaperbackEngels9780571232031 24-12-2009

And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history. In Occupied City, David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre. Meer

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Percival Everett

Wounded

PaperbackEngels9780571232451 14-8-2008

Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address the toughest issues of our time with a touching originality, Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores a divided America. Meer

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Paul Auster

Travels in the Scriptorium

PaperbackEngels9780571232567 6-9-2007

Auster's existential tale of Mr Blank from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Meer

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Adrian Tomine

Sleepwalk

PaperbackEngels9780571233311 21-8-2008

An old woman returns alone to the spot where as a young girl she used to meet her lover on his daily lunch break. A young guy misses his flight and returns to observe a kind of alternate version of his own life, one from which he seems to have vanished. Meer

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Adrian Tomine

Summer Blonde

PaperbackEngels9780571233427 5-2-2009

Picking up from his earlier collection Sleepwalk, and the precursor to his award-winning Shortcomings, the four stories in Summer Blonde are quintessential Tomine. Meer

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Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bad Girl

PaperbackEngels9780571234110 7-8-2008

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same person. Meer

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Jan Morris

Allegorizings

PaperbackEngels9780571234141 4-8-2022

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century. Meer

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Louis MacNeice

Autumn Journal

PaperbackEngels9780571234387 17-1-2013

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. Meer

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Gerard Donovan

Julius Winsome

PaperbackEngels9780571235377 7-2-2008

Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. Narrated by the unforgettable voice of Julius himself - at once compassionate, vulnerable and threatening - it reads like a timeless, lost classic. Meer

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Willy Vlautin

Northline

PaperbackEngels9780571235711 25-12-2008

Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, but finds herself haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief. Meer

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Laurent Mauvignier

In the Crowd

PaperbackEngels9780571236374 7-5-2009

and Liverpool supporter Geoff Andrewson, travelling with his brothers. As these four groups of characters cross paths, and as the excitement of the build-up gives way to horrific tragedy, their lives and relationships are changed forever. Meer

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Jason Goodwin

The Snake Stone

PaperbackEngels9780571236473 1-5-2008

Once again, the investigator finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death. Meer

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Elliot Perlman

The Street Sweeper

PaperbackEngels9780571236855 7-3-2013

Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Meer

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Eoin McNamee

Orchid Blue

PaperbackEngels9780571237562 5-5-2011

January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Meer

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Marcel Theroux

Far North

PaperbackEngels9780571237784 3-6-2010

Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city. Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Meer

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John McGahern

Creatures of the Earth

PaperbackEngels9780571237852 5-7-2007

McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. Meer

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