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by Peter Bognanni
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Published Jul 2011
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Published Feb 2011
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by Peter Murphy
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThis is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. Suffused with family secrets, eerie imagery, black humor, and hypnotic prose, John the Revelator is a novel to fall in love with and an astounding debut.
by Jan Elizabeth Watson
Published Feb 2009
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by David Mitchell
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA novel about a 13-year-old boy's perilous trek through schoolyard trials, his budding interest in girls and the simmering tension between his parents.
by Jonathan Lethem
Published Aug 2004
Read Reviews'A vibrant, sometimes heartbreaking ballad of Brooklyn...prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks.'
by Jonathan Coe
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsAs the world appears to self-destruct around them, four teenage friends hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade - the 1970s.
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