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The Painter Of Shanghai
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Jennifer Cody Epstein
Loosely based on the life and art of Pan Yuliang, this is the story of a young girl sold into prostitution by her uncle. Seemingly with no way out of this life, the young girl finds her world transformed when a government inspector takes her as his concubine in 1920s' Shanghai. In this new role she discovers the world of art and her own talent as a painter.
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The Story Of A Marriage
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Andrew Sean Greer
San Francisco in the early 1950s is the setting for this story of change and uncertainty, and new ways of living. Pearlie has a life of sorts with her husband and polio-stricken son. It is when a stranger comes to their door one morning that Pearlie's world will slowly unravel.
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The Spies Of Warsaw
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Alan Furst
War seems inevitable and the spy business is experiencing a boom time. A German engineer in Warsaw, a French military attaché, and a Polish lawyer are just some of the people trading secrets and living double lives as the German and Russian secret services work behind the scenes.
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The Secret Scripture
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Sebastian Barry
Ensconced in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, Roseanne has a secret hiding place for her few worldly possessions including a pen and some discarded paper. She is a very old woman who is long forgotten to the world. Interweaving Roseanne's journal with that of her doctor, Dr. Grene, the author takes us on a journey into a particular kind of Irish life.
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The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
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Rebecca Miller
The present day Pippa is almost unrecognisable. Gone is the girl experimenting with drugs and rebellion and in her place is wife, mother, suburban woman. However, as her husband's career comes to an end, Pippa begins to regress into her earlier self. This is an exploration of the female character in all its guises.
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The Paradise Trail
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Duncan Campbell
It is Calcutta 1971 and India has declared war on Pakistan. The Lux Hotel is a backpackers' hostel and five people suddenly find themselves thrown together. This moment in time, and the murder of two of them, will haunt the survivors forever.
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The Forgotten Garden
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Kate Morton
Beginning on a ship bound for Australia on the eve of the first World War, this novel tells of family ties that hold many secrets. Nell O'Connor is determined to uncover the truth about her family in Cornwall and how she came to be in Australia. Her story survives her death and it is her granddaughter who begins to uncover the truth.
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The Creator's Map
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Emilio Calderon
It is the time of the Spanish Civil War but Jose is in Rome studying architecture. He meets and becomes entangled with a young librarian. Their relationship will mirror the divided loyalties and stresses of Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
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The Behaviour Of Moths
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Poppy Adams
The opening of this novel has Ginny waiting and watching for her sister Vivi to arrive. This arrival has been forty-seven years in the making and will disturb the moth obssessed Ginny's world and uncover the long-held secrets of both girls. This novel is laden with the emotional landscape between siblings yet written with a sensitivity that makes it bearable for the reader to traverse.
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The Angel Maker
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Stefan Brijs
When Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to his home town with three infants in tow, their arrival creates quite a stir. The children not only have their father's red hair, but they have also inherited his cleft palate - a sign of the devil's work according to some superstitious villagers. Despite his uncommunicative manner, Hoppe earns the respect of the village when he saves the life of a choking child. His own offspring, however, remain secluded. What is the elusive doctor hiding? Award winning Dutch author Stefan Brijs has woven a bizarre and unsettling tale, covering the themes of science versus religion and good versus evil. But be warned: this one is not for the squeamish.
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Sea Of Poppies
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Amitav Gosh
Amitav Gosh's new novel is a rollicking, historical saga that looks at the period of the Chinese Opium Wars from the perspective of India. Indian peasant farmers were forced by the British to dedicate their fields entirely to the growing of opium poppies. Escaping this life, one woman braves pirates, slavery, and the loss of her husband to seek a new life. The first of a trilogy, the book finishes on a note of suspense - leaving the reader keen for book two.
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Nightwork
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Thomas Glavinic
Jonas awakes in his flat in Austria one morning to discover he cannot make contact with anyone. All communication sources are dead. He leaves the flat and soon realises that in fact there is no one else to communicate with - he is all alone in the world.
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If Today Be Sweet
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Thrity Umrigar
Tehmina is recently widowed and spending time with her son and his family in Ohio. The suggestion that she might stay there permanently, leaving her native India behind, turns her world inside out and completely transforms her life.
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East Of The Sun
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Julia Gregson
In 1928 Viva, an attractive young English woman, needs to get to India to retrieve a suitcase belonging to her dead parents. To pay for her fare she answers several advertisements for a chaperone. She accompanies two friends, Tor and Rose (Tor is to marry an English officer and Rose is her bridesmaid), and a surly teenager, Guy. The story follows their journey on board ship and then when they arrive in India and go their separate ways. East of the Sun is a beautiful, atmospheric novel which captures the heart of India and her people.
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An Atlas Of Impossible Longing
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Anuradha Roy
Nirmal, Bakul, Mukunda are all players in the daily trials and tribulations of a Bengali family. The patriarch, Amulya, tends his garden preferring to concentrate on that rather than the destruction of his world.
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Man In The Dark
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Paul Auster
It is America 2000 and the country is at civil war. Enter Paul Auster's dark world where August Brill is co-opted into assassination.
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Evening Is The Whole Day
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Preeta Samarasan
This story opens in 1960 in Malaysia. There we meet the Rajasekharans, an immigrant Indian family who are facing many changes, not least the departure of the eldest daughter to America. Post-colonial Malaysia is on show as the reader becomes enthralled with the daily unravelling of this family.
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Human Love
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Andrei Makine
Opening with the statement that life without love is like a night without end, Makine weaves a story of unimaginable horror and desolation on the African continent and tests the theory that love does survive all.
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The White Tiger
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Aravind Adiga
I was totally intrigued by this book. Balraim Haluai is an enigma - teashop servant, chauffeur, murderer. When a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, he thinks all his dreams have come true. After moving to Delhi with his new master he disc
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The Butt
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Will Self
This is the story of Tom Brodzinski and his travelling companion, Reggie Lincoln. After a seemingly innocuous event, Tom finds himself embroiled in a journey far different to the one he expected; a journey into the moral landscape of his culture and of o
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Bird
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Sophie Cunningham
Ana-Sofia lives in New ork but is increasingly haunted by the memory of her mother, a post-war refugee who transformed herself in Hollywood and, again, towards the end of her short life, in the Himalayas.
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Something to Tell You
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Hanif Kureishi
Immersed in the anxieties and delusions of his patients, psychoanalyst Dr. Khan has little time to devote to his own problems. Reaching middle-age and looking back to his youth in the 1970s, he embodies the journey of so many, from drug-affected radical t
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Devil May Care
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Sebastian Faulks
28 May 2008 is the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. A new movie, stamp issue, and museum exhibition in London are just some of the celebratory activities. On 28 May, there will be a worldwide release of Sebastian Faulks' new B
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Imprimatur
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Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
The setting is Rome, 1683. Whilst the city tries to shield itself from plague, a spy in the service of the French King is seizing the opportunity to move around the city under cover of darkness. Religious intrigue and political wars form the backdrop to t
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The Double Bind
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Chris Bohjalian
A random opportunity to look through a box of photographs once belonging to a homeless man is the true to life beginning of this tense and dark novel. Using this as a major thread in the book, we uncover the secrets that this box uncovers through the char
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God of Speed
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Luke Davies
Taking the life of Howard Hughes as the basis for this work of fiction, Davies revels in imagining how it would have felt to live this extraordinary life. The novel, like the man, is full of action, spontaneity, and compulsion.
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The Philosopher's Apprentice
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James Morrow
Morrow's latest book is a freewheeling and fantastical tale of talking iguanas, clones, philosophy and genetic engineering. The premise involves a brilliant but crazed biologist who incubates a daughter for herself in a vat. When the child issues forth,
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Funny Boys
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Warren Adler
The New York of this novel is all gangsters, clubs, scandals, and gambling. Mickey Fine likes being in the thick of it as a performer at the casino until reality hits home about the world his audience inhabits.
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Submarine
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Joe Dunthorne
This debut novel is a story of teenage life with all the usual complexity, emotion, and humour that pervades those years. Oliver is trying to find his way through his teens whilst feeling compelled to save what he perceives to be his parents' failing marr
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Wolf Totem
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Jiang Rong
The co-existence that has played out for centuries between the humans and wolves of the Mongolian grasslands is only beginning to be understood by Chen Zhen when members from the People's Republic come to settle and modernise this area with devastating co
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