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  • SEPTOLOGY
    SEPTOLOGY
    FOSSE, JON
    The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time.What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a tradit...
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    Q. 280

  • THE LONG FORM
    THE LONG FORM
    KATE BRIGGS
    Kate Brigg’s debut novel—the follow-up to her acclaimed This Little Art—is the story of a young mother, Helen, awake with her baby. Together they are moving through a morning routine that is in one sense entirely ordinary—resting, feeding, pacing. Yet in the closeness of their rented flat, such everyday acts take on epic scope, thoughts and objects made newly alive in the light...
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  • THE OTHER NAME
    THE OTHER NAME
    FOSSE, JON
    “Fosse’s fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous.”—The GuardianThe Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing ab...
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  • THE POSSESSED
    THE POSSESSED
    WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
    In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland's greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations of his status, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish countryside where he is to train...
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  • THE SINGULARITY
    THE SINGULARITY
    BALSAM KARAM
    In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches until, devoid of hope and frantic with grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children behind. Bearing witness to this suicide is another wo...
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  • THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS' GUILD
    THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE GRAVEDIGGERS' GUILD
    MATHIAS ENARD
    To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around on his moped to interview local residents. Unbeknownst to David, in these nondescript lands, once theatres of wars...
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  • COMPANIONS
    COMPANIONS
    CHRISTINA HESSELHOLDT
    Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions follows their loves, ambitions, pains and anxieties as they age, fall sick, have affairs, grieve, host dinner parties and move between the Lake District, Berlin, Lisbon, Belgrade, Mozambique,...
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    Q. 220

  • THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU
    THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU
    ANDRÉ ACIMAN
    We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way.A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious,...
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  • FIND ME
    FIND ME
    ANDRÉ ACIMAN
    In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a ...
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    Q. 140

  • IN THE FOLD
    IN THE FOLD
    RACHEL CUSK
    When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, their marriage begins to flounder. The chance to escape once more to his fri...
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  • SAVING AGNES
    SAVING AGNES
    RACHEL CUSK
    Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little façade she can pass herself ...
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  • THE BRADSHAW VARIATIONS
    THE BRADSHAW VARIATIONS
    RACHEL CUSK
    Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds h...
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    Q. 140

  • THE TEMPORARY
    THE TEMPORARY
    RACHEL CUSK
    Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he f...
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    Q. 140

  • THE DEATH OF FRANCIS BACON
    THE DEATH OF FRANCIS BACON
    MAX PORTER
    A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.'A little masterpiece.' Irish Times'Luminous.' Observer'One of our most exciting writers.' The SpectatorMadrid. Unfinished. Man dying.A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings...
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  • LANNY
    LANNY
    MAX PORTER
    Not far from London, there is a village.This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present.It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad.But it also belongs to Dead Papa T...
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  • THE MAN IN THE BUNKER
    THE MAN IN THE BUNKER
    RORY CLEMENTS
    Germany, late summer 1945 - The war is over but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres. Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one admits to having voted Nazi,...
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  • FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK
    FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK
    ALBA DE CÉSPEDES
    Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant churn of the domestic routine and her fears that her husband will discover her new habit. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissatisfa...
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  • DOCTOR SAX
    DOCTOR SAX
    JACK KEROUAC
    Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling...
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    Q. 190

  • SATORI IN PARIS
    SATORI IN PARIS
    JACK KEROUAC
    From the renowned Beat writer, Kerouac’s colorful and meandering search for his family history, now reissued following his centenary celebrationSatori in Paris is the semi-autobiographical tale of Jack Kerouac’s trip to France in search of his heritage. Beginning in Paris and moving west to Brittany, Kerouac traces the paths of his ancestors and explores his own understanding o...
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  • PIC
    PIC
    JACK KEROUAC
    Se mettre dans la peau d’un jeune orphelin noir, voilà ce que Jack Kerouac a réussi à faire dans son tout dernier roman. Dédoublement significatif, aliénation symbolique, projection de sympathie et d’engagement, Pic est certainement tout cela et plus encore : un portrait saisissant du milieu noir américain des années quarante, ses odeurs, ses couleurs, ses personnages truculent...
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  • EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS
    EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS
    OISÍN MCKENNA
    "This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles "A bit like the book version of a Richard Curtis film, but with more grit, more bathroom sex and a literal beached whale." --GQFor fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant m...
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  • TOM LAKE
    TOM LAKE
    ANN PATCHETT
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern M...
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    Q. 190

  • LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE
    LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE
    TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club Pick • Belletrist Book Club Pick“Joins the pantheon of great American novels.”—Los Angeles Times...
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    Q. 190

  • MAGMA
    MAGMA
    HJÖRLEIFSDOTTIR, THORA
    A compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman's haunting experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification by one of Iceland's most provocative writers.20-year old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. B...
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  • THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
    THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
    MATTHEW QUICK
    A heartwarming debut novel, now a major movie by David O. Russell—nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four Golden Globes, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards!“Aawww shucks!” NPR's Nancy Pearl said. “I know that’s hardly a usual way to begin a book review, but it was my immediate response to finishing Matthew Quick’s heartwarming, humorous and soul-satis...
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  • BELOVED
    BELOVED
    TONI MORRISON
    Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's ne...
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  • THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
    THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
    FOLLETT KEN
    As a new age dawns in England's twelfth century, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral sets the stage for a story of intrigue and power, revenge and betrayal. It is in this rich tapestry, where kings and queens are corrupt - and one majestic creation will bond them forever. ...
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  • MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
    MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
    ARTHUR GOLDEN
    A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism, the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Optioned for film. ...
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  • THE KITE RUNNER
    THE KITE RUNNER
    KHALED HOSSEINI
    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. ...
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  • EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU
    EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU
    CELESTE NG
    "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dr...
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