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by Will North
Published Apr 2010
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by Mari Strachan
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsThe Earth Hums in B Flat is a story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of twelve-year-old Gwenni Morgan, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Published May 2009
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by A.L. Kennedy
Published Mar 2009
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by Owen Sheers
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsImbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
by Jo Walton
Published Aug 2007
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by Andrea Levy
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsA courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
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