Fiction: general and literary

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C.

'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker A groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The Aviator Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?

'What a ride!

New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow.

'Incredibly funny, incredibly insightful and incredibly moving' Fiona Mozley, author of Hot Stew A darkly comic and explosive tale of a world at war and one island girl's struggle to survive Eighty-year old Herra Bjrnsson lies alone in her garage waiting to die.

An unforgettable book from Portugal's bestselling author that promises to change how we read about love The restaurant is crowded and noisy.

Book 4 in Steve Burrows's gripping Birder Murder mystery series Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune hopes an overseas birding trip will hold some clues to solving his fugitive brother's manslaughter case.

Eighteenth-century London the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far away.

2016.

Selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club and shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker prize A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year ';Will Dean's atmospheric crime thriller marks him out as a talent to watch.

It's summer in Adders Fork.

';This book is stunning, phenomenal, wow.

'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker MY HEAD SPINS.

From the bestselling Italian author comes a novel based on the true story of a priest who refused to surrender.

The only truly global collection of love poetry, bringing together the most stunning and inspiring poems from all around the worldThis beautiful collection of love poems gathers together thousands of years of timeless verse from around the world.

*Nominated for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal* *Spectator Best Books of the Year selection* Two unlikely heroes inspire a whole town by fighting to save a tree Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, you do something that changes your life forever.

Dead clients are bad for business, something that Tom Winter, head of security at a private Swiss bank, knows only too well.

';This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.

An award-winning story of friendship and the power of imagination, from the celebrated author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman The loss of a parent brought them together.

Introducing a witty and unique voice poised to take the literary world by storm.

A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Europe Lala has lived a dazzling life.

';A gem of a novel' Elle ';A winning debut' The New Yorker ';Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.

'Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi' Economist An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.

Winner of the 2014 Finlandia Prize A FAMILY UNDER THREAT.

A beautiful tribute to the international bestseller The Little Prince, with specially commissioned illustrations by the award-winning artist Pietari Posti Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince.

';A fantastic read think Girls meets Kitchen Confidential' Stylist ';An adrenalised love song' Mail on Sunday 'A stunning debut novel' Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City *AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A USA TODAY BESTSELLER | AN INDIE BESTSELLER* Tess is the 22-year-old narrator of this stunning first novel.

The internationally and New York Times bestselling first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension.

Bridgeport, Connecticut: 1913.

Shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award 2015 Set on a remote Scottish island, this is the compelling story of one family's struggle to cope with a vanishing way of life On Eilean For, a small island off the north-west coast of Scotland with twenty-eight inhabitants, the McClouds run a faltering guesthouse.

Set in a Tyneside fishing village, Herring Girl moves effortlessly between 1898 and 2007 as twelve-year-old Ben finds himself the unlikely conduit for Annie, a herring girl who lived and died a century earlier.

Ferret Skerritt ventriloquist by trade, conman by birth isn't expecting to find love at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, a colourful world of flimflam men, snake-oil salesmen, occultists, and scandalous burlesques.

Ghost.

The tensions and complexities of 1970s South Africa are brought vividly to life in this dark and powerful literary thriller Gentle but highly strung, Janet must support her Afrikaner husband in his new job as a plain-clothes policeman and specialist interrogator.

';My first week I learned that people refer to ILLC as ';illsee'.

Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees.

Hoe ver ga je als je wanhopig graag het leven van de rijken wilt leiden?

Told from the perspective of a high school girl and a football coach, Broken Field reveals the tensions that tear at the fabric of a small town when a high school hazing incident escalates and threatens a championship season.

When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order.

Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC.

Pu Bergman is eight years old when Mother rents Pastor Dahlbergs ramshackle house for the summer.

It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California.

Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay.

Beth Maller returns to her job as a high school guidance counselor shortly after her teenage son, Danny, is killed in a car accident.

Vienna, 1909.

Das opulente Epos über die Frühgeschichte BayernsDer historische Roman »Der Krieger und die Königin« erzählt die Geschichte des ruhmreichen Kriegers Garibald und der Langobarden-Prinzessin Waltrada.

A devious corporation attacks a farm commune in former Vermont where one scientist just might be able to save the planet.

Ein Meister der Verführung: Jean-Noël Orengos Roman über Albert Speer, die Deutschen und ihre Schuld1945: Albert Speer, Hitlers Architekt und Rüstungsminister, vollbringt auf der Anklagebank in Nürnberg ein Kunststück, das ihm das Leben rettet: Er behauptet, nichts von der «Endlösung» gewusst zu haben, erklärt sich «verantwortlich, aber nicht schuldig» – und man glaubt ihm bereitwillig.

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