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Updated April 11, 2023
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Umami
Jufresa, Laia
Paper Book
  'A wonderfully surprising novel, powered by wit, exuberance and nostalgia.' Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters A captivating portrait of contemporary Mexico, cut through with dazzling wit and sensitivity  It started with a drowning. Deep in the...
How I became a North Korean
Lee, Krys
Paper Book
Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border.families. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China...
The vagrants : a novel
Li, Yiyun
Paper Book
In a provincial town in China, a young woman is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. The citizens stage a protest & the town goes through uncertainty, hope & fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. We follow the pain of the girl's parents, the hopes of the...
The association of small bombs
Mahajan, Karan
Paper Book
"On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Just a 'small' bomb, but it is fatal for two Khurana school boys. Their friend Mansoor survives the blast bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. After a failed stint at university in America, Mansoor returns...
The twelve tribes of Hattie
Mathis, Ayana.
Paper Book
When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in her mouth, she couldn't guess that two years later, aged sixteen, she'd be fighting to keep her baby twins alive with no help from her disappointing husband.
Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
'Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. ...
Everything I never told you
Ng, Celeste.
Paper Book
'There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges...Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict on their children and on each other' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'This intriguing tale of unhappy families will have...
Swing time
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Timeis a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. Two brown girls dream of being...
The underground railroad : a novel
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 ...

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