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A Novel
by Will Self
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by David Almond
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsFrom master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA hilarious and heartfelt new novel, a deliciously dark tale of Americas dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
by Joshua Ferris
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
by Martin Amis
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsIn 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then continues in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released.
by Francine Prose
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsMasterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in our lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture.
by Chuck Palahniuk
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else. (Excerpt contains explicit content).
by Elmore Leonard
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsEven with this tragic background of Rwanda Pagan Babies comes off as Leonard's funniest straight-faced novel to date.
by Terry Pratchett
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsEveryone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? What happened to the fifth elephant is only one of the many perplexing mysteries solved in this new novel by today's most celebrated fantasy humorist.
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