Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, this novel describes
how a young man goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who
saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
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How to Be Good
Nick Hornby
From the author of Fever
Pitch and About
A Boy, this book tells the story of London doctor Katie
Carr, who is driven half-mad by her husband’s attempts to
‘do good’. If charity begins at home, maybe it’s
time to move.
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The Accidental
Ali Smith
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award in 2005 and shortlisted for
the Booker Prize, The Accidental tells the story of the
Smart family, and Amber, the strange girl who comes into their
lives one hot summer holiday. A reflection on how a chance encounter
can change each of us forever.
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Critically acclaimed, White Teeth tells of three families
from three cultures over three generations in and around Willesden
in North London. A stunning debut novel.
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Any Human Heart
William Boyd
The story of a life lived to the full through the ups and downs
of the 20th century, Logan Mountstuart’s diary tells of
an ordinary man living an extraordinary life – a soldier,
a spy, and an art-dealer.
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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2004, this
is a heartbreaking story of children in war. New Yorker Daisy
is sent to the English countryside by her father where she is
baffled by country life but it all changes when war begins.
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English Passengers
Matthew Kneale
Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year, English Passengers tells the story of an 1857 expedition to Tasmania in search
of the Garden of Eden. Told by a score of different characters,
this is a major work of imagination.
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Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller
Booker Prize short-listed, Notes on a Scandal is a sinister
lesson in keeping your friends close, and your enemies even closer.
Sheba Hart is having an illicit affair with one of her young pupils
and life becomes very complicated
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Regeneration
Pat Barker
The first book in Barker’s
trilogy about the young men who fought in World War I, this
story is based on the real life meeting between poet Siegried
Sassoon and army psychologist WHR Rivers in 1917.
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A Short History of Tractors
in Ukranian
Marina Lewycka
This comedy became an international publishing phenomenon. It
tells of feuding sisters Vera and Nadezhda who put aside their
quarrels to disentangle their émigré father from
a Ukrainian gold-digging divorcee.
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The Impressionist
Hari Kunzru
A continent-straddling tale of colonialism and discontentment,
this book tells the story of Pran Nath - born in India at the
beginning of the last century. Pran travels to Britain and Africa
to discover his origins.
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What a Carve Up!
Jonathan Coe
A satire of the rampant greed and commercialism that gripped
Britain in the 1980s, this book details the monstrous Winshaw
family through the eyes of an investigative biographer.
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The Other Side of the Story
Marian Keyes
Published in 2004, this is the story of a hot-shot literary agent
whose star keeps rising – if only her married boss wasn’t
such a distraction and her author didn’t have writer’s
block and a tangled personal life.
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Adrian Mole and the Weapons
of Mass Destruction
Sue Townsend
The return of a great comic creation, Adrian is middle-aged and
going downhill fast. When not measuring his bald spot, he’s
trying to win over the voluptuous Daisy.
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