Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
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Category: Literature
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekin ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
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Category: Literature
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literature
What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out. After spending a night with an attractive stranger, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three ...Show more
Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
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Category: Literature
Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are bes ...Show more
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Literature
The New York Times BestsellerNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable stor ...Show more
I, Anna by Elsa Lewin
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Category: Literature
One night, Anna blacks out in a stranger's apartment. This is only the beginning of her nightmare. Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds ...Show more
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature
1843. Grace Marks, sixteen, is declared guilty and sentenced to life in prison for participating in the murders of Thomas Kinnear, for whom she was a maid, and Nancy Montgomery, the housekeeper and Thomas' lover. Years later, a group of reformists and spiritualists try to obtain a pardon for her.
To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
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Category: Literature
To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invita ...Show more
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
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Category: Literature
Every day an old man wakes alone in an almost empty room, unable to remember his past. The only clues to his identity are a manuscript, a pile of photos, and a visitor called Anna who sparks memories of forgotten love and tragedy. A mystery about responsibility, ageing, and memory, "Travels in the Scrip ...Show more
Wake Up by Tim Pears
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Category: Literature
John and his brother Greg have turned their father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest potato dealer. Now ambitious John wants to improve the world by introducing, through the potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an alternative to injections. But deep in ...Show more
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
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Category: Literature
Specimen Days is three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative, a ghost story set at the height of the Industrial Revolution, tells the story of man-eating machines. An ecstatic boy, barely embodied in the physical world, speaks in the voice of the ...Show more
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
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Category: Literature
They shared the same Christian name and they started school together on the same day. One girl stayed as plain Elizabeth, while it was decreed that the other would be Betsy. Naturally, they became friends of a sort. Many years later they still meet - different lives and loves, different choices have mar ...Show more