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Strangers Child TPB (Booker11 Longlist)

This is Alan Hollinghurst`s first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres`, the home of...

Sunset Limited

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, `Black` and `White`, as the two men are known, begin...

Suttree

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast...

Swallowing Grandma A,OME

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and...

Take a Chance (A, OME)

`Abbafab`, the hugely popular Abba tribute band, are in trouble. Gemma Redden has just broken her ankle and finding a new singer to fill her white platform boots at such late notice isn`t going to be easy. But...

The Body Artist

`A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century` Observer The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast...

The Forgotten Garden

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A...

The Informers

In this incisive collection of stories, Bret Easton Ellis returns to the moral badlands of 1980s Los Angeles Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first...

The Immortals: Blue Moon

Things have changed for Ever since she met her beloved Damen - not least because she`s got a whole new set of powers, courtesy of her new Immortal status. Just as she`s getting stronger, though, Damen seems to be...

The Island of the Colour-blind

The Orchard Keeper

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America`s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley...

The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven

Poor Mia. Not only has she made a total ass of herself with ( the Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili), trying to prove that she`s a super-chilled party girl. She`s also bankrupted the student council....

The Return

The Rules of Attraction

Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America`s East Coast. Lauren, who changes the...

The Sixth Man

When alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is locked away in Cutter's Rock psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer, Ted Bergin, to examine the case...

The Six Sacred Stones

This Perfect World

Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde,...

To Cut a Long Story Short

Tommy Sullivan is Freak

Katie Ellison is not a liar. But she can’t exactly tell the truth, either – not when she’s juggling two boyfriends, secretly hating the high school football team and trying to have the best summer ever. At least Katie...

Tony Robinson`s Weird World of Wonders: British

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the British! It`s history, but not as we know it!...

Tyrannosaur Canyon

A moon rock missing for thirty Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico A scientist with ambition enough to A monk who will redeem the A dark agency with a deadly The greatest scientific discovery of...

Un Lun Dun

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and...

Underworld

`A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic` Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens famously at the Dodgers Giants 1951...

Unsuitable Men

Finding it hard to meet Mr Right? Perhaps you should try looking for Mr Wrong instead … After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would...