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- Tue Jun 14, 2016 3:05 pm
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- Topic: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Jul '16
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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Jul '16
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling p...
- Thu May 12, 2016 12:57 pm
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- Topic: The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal - May 2016
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The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal - May 2016
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO GET THE LIFE YOU CAN'T HAVE? Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise th...
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:55 am
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- Topic: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - April 2016
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The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - April 2016
From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazi...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:53 pm
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- Topic: Exposure by Helen Dunmore - March 2016
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Exposure by Helen Dunmore - March 2016
Virtuoso storyteller Helen Dunmore returns with a thrilling Cold War espionage tale in which the closest ties are called into question and nobody is quite who they seem. It’s London, 1960. The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles...
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 12:12 pm
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- Topic: The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien - February 2016
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The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien - February 2016
Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One wom...
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 12:03 pm
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- Topic: Beatlebone by Kevin Barry - January 2016
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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry - January 2016
A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane. It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland ...
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 2:20 pm
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- Topic: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters - December 2015
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The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters - December 2015
'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked ...
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:18 pm
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- Topic: The book of strange new things by Michael Faber - Sept. 2015
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The book of strange new things by Michael Faber - Sept. 2015
It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him...
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:06 pm
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- Topic: Time and time again by Ben Elton -August 2015
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Time and time again by Ben Elton -August 2015
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness th...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:48 am
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- Topic: The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by J. Dicker - July
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The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by J. Dicker - July
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel th...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:40 am
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- Topic: The Hunting Season by Andrea Camilleri - June 2015
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The Hunting Season by Andrea Camilleri - June 2015
From internationally bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, a brilliant, bawdy historical novel that will surprise even the most die-hard Montalbano fans. In 1880s Vigata, a stranger comes to town to open a pharmacy. Fofo turns out to be the son of a man legendary for having a magic garden stocked wit...
- Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:43 pm
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- Topic: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by R. Flanagan - May 2015
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by R. Flanagan - May 2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted ...
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:08 am
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- Topic: The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader- April 2015
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The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader- April 2015
A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl’s desperate choice to isolate herself from the world England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like the one who taught Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven ...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:38 am
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- Topic: Academy Street by Mary Costello -March 2015
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Academy Street by Mary Costello -March 2015
Growing up in the west of Ireland in the 1940s Tess is a shy introverted child. But beneath her quiet exterior lies a heart of fire. A fire that will later drive her to make her home among the hurly burly of 1960s New York. Over four decades and a life lived with quiet intensity on Academy Street in...
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:24 pm
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- Topic: The Job by Janet Evanovich - Jan 2015
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The Job by Janet Evanovich - Jan 2015
He's a charming con man and she's a dedicated FBI agent, and they're about to drive each other crazy- again! The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox--bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the ...