The Hours

Four Blind Mice

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET]

My Losing Season

Back Story: A Spenser Novel

Oryx and Crake

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro   Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures. Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives.   Covers vary. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France The Accidental Ali Smith   I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard,when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France On Beauty by Zadie Smith   Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register...   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini   Now in paperback, one of the yearís international literary sensations -- a shattering story of betrayal and redemption set in war-torn Afghanistan.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Closers by Michael Connelly   In Los Angeles in 1988, a 16 year old girl who had disappeared from her home was later found dead with a single gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide, and although detectives on the case found clues that pointed toward murder, no one was ever charged. Detective Harry Bosch, newly returned to the LAPD with the job of closing unsolved cases, gets the report of the new DNA match that makes the case very much alive again.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith   Since its first publication in 1998 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' has received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the 'International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. It has also been chosen as a Top Ten Mystery by the Organization of Independent Booksellers, U.S.A.   More information and prices (covers vary) from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon   The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds (different cover) Amazon.de - Euros (different cover) Amazon.fr - Euros (different cover)

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes This is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know.Julian Barnes has long been recognised as one of Britain?s most remarkable writers. While those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, Arthur & George will surely find him an entirely new audience.   Covers vary. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France The Sea by John Banville   The brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, quite simply, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today. When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon finds himself entangled in their lives, which are as seductive as they are unsettling. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow. John Banville is one of the most sublime writers working in the English language. Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, The Sea is quite possibly the best thing he has ever written.   More information and prices from: Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry   Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them.   Covers vary. More information and prices from: Amazon.com - USA SeekBooks - Australia Amazon.ca - Canada Amazon.co.uk - UK Amazon.de - Germany Amazon.fr - France Pompeii by Robert Harris   Engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct which brings water to a quarter of a million people. His predecessor has disappeared. When a crisis strikes the Augusta's main line, Attilus discovers that there are forces which even the Roman Empire can't control.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus   The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raise les petites over-privileged-as if grooming them for a Best in Show competition. Written by two former nannies, this alternately comic and poignant satire punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston   The Navigator of New York is set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook to get to the North Pole at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also the story of a young manís quest for his origins, from St. Johnís, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds (different cover) Amazon.de - Euros (different cover) Amazon.fr - Euros (different cover) Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry   For Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry puts his own spin on Tolstoy's maxim that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The result is a thoroughly absorbing tale about matters of family, told with wise, gentle humour. In the early 1990s, Hindu fundamentalists, the Shiv Sena, razed the Babri mosque, a Muslim holy site in the Indian city of Ayodhya. This incident and the bloody inter-religious strife it precipitated form the novel's political background, which encroaches on the realm of personal ethics with dire and unforeseen consequences.   More information and prices from: Amazon.com - US dollars SeekBooks.com.au - Australian Dollars Amazon.ca - Canadian dollars Amazon.co.uk - British pounds Amazon.de - Euros Amazon.fr - Euros

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