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A Novel
by John Boyne
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by Michelle Gallen
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsA funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.
by Ann Patchett
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsAnn Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.
by Anna Burns
Published Dec 2018
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
by Edouard Louis
Published May 2018
Read ReviewsAn autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.
by Alan Hollinghurst
Published Oct 2005
Read Reviews'Hollinghurst writes harsh but deeply informed social satire from within, just as Proust did. He writes the best prose we have today'. Winner of the 2004 Booker Prize.
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.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2003
Read ReviewsTo understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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