Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life after Life In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the wo ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1
THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF 'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian 'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times 'Bridge of Cla ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A striking, rambunctious, Tom Ripley-ish debut about cuckoos in the family nest, the death of colonial Rhodesia and the bloody birth of corrupt Zimbabwe Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thu ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018* 'A riotous hymn to urban life... passionate, compelling' Guardian 'A novel that doesn't flinch, and demands change right now' Ali Smith 'A novel so of this moment that you don't even realize ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangero ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A big-hearted, funny, sad, dazzlingly ambitious novel about the messiness of love, family and belief - and how nothing ever turns out quite how we plan In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Fired up by John Paul II's appearance in Phoenix P ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ESSEX SERPENT'A beautiful, devastating, brilliant book' Marian Keyes'Astonishingly dark, rich storytelling, exquisitely balanced between gothic shocks and emotional truth' Francis Spufford'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human, Melmoth is haunting in all the best wa ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
"It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." Scotsman On The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples t ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington Post FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling adventure stor ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweepin ...Show more
