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by Billy O'Callaghan
Published Apr 2020
Read ReviewsAn exquisite, heart-breaking novel by an Irish discovery.
by Margaret Drabble
Published Feb 2018
Read ReviewsA magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist.
by Leslie Pietrzyk
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 Pitt Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
by James Salter
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.
The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsThe inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
by Julian Barnes
Published Mar 2012
Read ReviewsA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.
by Kate Racculia
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsA sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a long-buried secret set the stage for a luminous and heart-breakingly real novel about lost souls finding one another.
by Paolo Giordano
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
by Simon Van Booy
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsOn the verge of giving upanchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their livesVan Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
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