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by Ian McEwan
Published Aug 2023
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it.
by Amit Chaudhuri
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsA beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London, each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the very art of living.
by Sadie Jones
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing portrait of 1950s hypocrisy and unexpected love, from a powerful new voice.
by Catherine O'Flynn
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsA tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl - winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award
by Ian McEwan
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsA novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
by Richard Ford
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsFrank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to lifes endless complexities than ever before. A holiday, and a novel, no reader will ever forgetat once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound.
by Charles Chadwick
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsIn this remarkable debut novel, Charles Chadwick has created one of the most memorable, brilliantly realized characters in contemporary fiction - by turns poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and profound.
by Nick Hornby
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsIntense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
by Ian McEwan
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsAn astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
by William Boyd
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsA moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life.
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