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by Colm Toibin
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín's most popular work twenty years later.
by William Kent Krueger
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsTold from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him.
by Alan Hollinghurst
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
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.
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