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At seventy, Abel Haggard is a hermit, resigned to memories of the family he has lost, living in isolation on his familys farm amid the encroaching suburban sprawl of Dallas. Hundreds of miles to the south in suburban Austin, fifteen-year-old Seth...

Alexei Volkovoy is a veteran of Russias war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters. By his side is Valya, a dangerous weapon in Volks arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a masterpiece from St Petersburgs Hermitage Museum. Volk must...

This is the second in the series of novels featuring the eunuch Yashmin - the first being the equally good introduction The Jannissary Tree. Set in the mid 1800s in Turkey at the height of the Ottaman Empire this is a detective novel with a...

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. This is it -- the final Aurelio Zen novel, now that death has claimed the Italian copper’s talented creator, Michael Dibdin. End Games is a fitting finale to a remarkable series of books, in...

From the acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes this quirky romantic comedy about a struggling alternative rock band in LA. Lucinda, the bands bass player, meets a man she calls the complainer, and falls in love....

Sunday Times Donovans disturbing novel brilliantly describes the pleasures of being alone and the simultaneous peril of loneliness. Guardian An intensely beautiful world of freezing starlit nights and hunters in the snow provides the backdrop to...

In this acclaimed memoir, award-winning novelist John Lanchester pieces together his parents past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets. From his grandparents beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, through his mothers decision to become...

Gail Lim was in the midst of bringing an unravelling of a mystery to life, when she died. As a producer of radio documentaries, she had been given a diary in which nothing was written but endless lists of numbers. It clearly dated from the...

In 1793, Hanno Stiffeniis travels to Konigsberg to seek advice from Immanuel Kant. Whatever was said at that private meeting, it changed both their lives. Shortly afterwards, a close friend of the philosopher extracts a promise from the young man:...

Bessy Buckley can hold her head up with Moll Flanders and Becky Sharp as a living, breathing mortal... Sarah Burton, The...

DBC Pierre’s second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev’s appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez...

Carey, who has made a career out of boring into the psyches of scoundrels, delivers a cunning fugitive adventure set largely in the wilds of Australia. Raised by his boho-turned-bourgeois grandmother on New Yorks Upper East Side, Che Selkirk,...

A humane, gloriously Australian book of grand passion, bad breath and high mischief. It is a rudely brilliant, infuriatingly beautiful, belligerently profane work of art.. Patrick Ness,...

In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a...

As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins Gate. Packer describes himself as...

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she...

Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a...

A fabulously rich and entertainig novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century...

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Tender and funny, Manju Kapurs third novel is an engrossing story of family life amid the bustle and commerce of the Banwari Lal Cloth Shop. When their traditional Delhi business - selling saris - is threatened by the new fashion for jeans and...