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Updated November 19, 2024
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Wandering stars
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! A heart-rending story of a Native American...
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Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD
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One hundred years of solitude
GarciÌa MaÌrquez, Gabriel
Audiobook
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the BuendIa family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the story of the BuendIa family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history,...
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The crucible : a play in four acts
Miller, Arthur
Paper Book
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of...
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Half of a yellow sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece This novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a...
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Ghost season : a novel
Abbas, Fatin
Paper Book
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan. A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict...
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The god of small things
Roy, Arundhati.
Paper Book
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming...
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The lowland : a novel
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's...
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Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Paper Book
BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were...
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Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change Okonkwo is...
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The inheritance of loss
Desai, Kiran
Audiobook
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Midnight's children : a novel
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000...
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Love medicine : a novel
Erdrich, Louise.
Paper Book
Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich's most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws - two...
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Pachinko
Lee, Min Jin
Paper Book
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through...
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We need new names : a novel
Bulawayo, NoViolet.
Paper Book
* Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013* * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 * * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014* 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia...
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This place : 150 years retold
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
Ebook
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Legacy of violence : a history of the British empire
Elkins, Caroline
Paper Book
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly 500 colonial subjects, Britain's empire was the largest empire in human history. For many, it epitomized our nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world? Spanning more than two...
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Black sun
Roanhorse, Rebecca
Paper Book
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event...
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The removed : a novel
Hobson, Brandon
Paper Book
"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy Orange, author of There There ...
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The berry pickers : a novel
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
One family's deepest pain. Another's darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out? On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people...
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Wandering stars
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! A heart-rending story of a Native American...
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The lowland a novel
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's...
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