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A Novel
by Julian Barnes
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by Clare Leslie Hall
Published Mar 2025
Read ReviewsA love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.
by Eve Chase
Published Jul 2017
Read ReviewsFor fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.
by Colum McCann
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsIn such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Awardwinning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of ...
by Per Petterson
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsI Refuse is a powerful, unforgettable novel from an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers.
by Sarah Waters
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA love story, a tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time and place.
by Ian McEwan
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
by Roberto Ampuero
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsEvocative, romantic, and full of intrigue,The Neruda Case is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era.
by Lily Tuck
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsSlender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.
by David Shields, Bradford Morrow
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsWhat is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.
by Howard Jacobson
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsThe Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.
by Paul Harding
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsAn old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. Heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for ...
by Lionel Shriver
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsUsing a playful parallel-universe structure,The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.
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.
by Margaret Atwood
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsThe Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience, told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s.
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