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Don DeLillo - Point Omega
Released: 05/03/2010
Pan Macmillan
In Don DeLillo's unsettling new work, the lives of two desert-dwelling characters are disrupted when one character's daughter, an ‘otherworldly' woman from New York, comes to visit. The sparse prose and DeLillo's carefully crafted sense of dread make for tense, engaging reading.
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Amy Bloom - Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Released: 04/03/2010
Granta
Author Amy Bloom has a sharp observational eye, and this collection of stories demonstrates her remarkable talent for picking out details from situations - the beginning of a quasi-incestuous affair and the aftermath of a tragedy, for instance. Genuine, touching and never mundane.
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Lionel Shriver - So Much For That
Released: 04/03/2010
Harpercollins
Illness is central to this book: ailments, real and imagined, get in the way of the fulfilment of dreams. The spanners in the works are dealt with by two families – one tackling a vicious cancer, the other administering placebos to all so that no one ‘feels left out’. Brace yourself.
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Talitha Stevenson - Disappear
Released: 04/03/2010
Virago
After an ill-fated holiday taken in a bid to save her marriage, Leila Bell gets back in touch with her sister, Kate. Becoming embroiled in Kate's edge-of-society existence forces Leila to reassess her own life. Writing with compassion, Stevenson explores the manifold repercussions of rekindling old relationships.
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Siri Hustvedt - The Shaking Woman
Released: 03/03/2010
Sceptre
While giving a talk about her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered an attack of the shakes. This book explores how this became a long-term ailment and the reasons behind it. Taking a fresh and accessible approach to complex subject matter, Hustvedt inhabits the space between conventional memoir and scientific investigation.
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Sam Lipsyte - The Ask
Released: 02/03/2010
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Milo Burke, faced with the prospect of losing his mediocre university job, receives one final chance to redeem himself. He must bring in funds from a rich donor, who just happens to be an old friend. This lively and satirical book probes the anxieties of middle class America.
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Patricia Duncker - The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
Released: 01/03/2010
Bloomsbury
A judge investigates a circle of dead bodies found in fresh snow. In the process she meets a composer who happens to be connected to each of the dead. But what is the significance of the cryptic, sinister book found near the gruesome scene? Menacing, ferocious and virtuosic.
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Peter Stephan Jungk - The Inheritance
Released: 26/02/2010
Pushkin Press
US-born, Paris-based writer Jungk has been bubbling away in the cauldron of European literature for some time now. With one book being developed into an opera by Philip Glass, and this rather stellar novel about a poet's battle to ensure that he gets his due inheritance, Jungk's future looks bright.
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William Langewiesche - Aloft
Released: 25/02/2010
Penguin
A leading light of the New New Journalism group in America and a professional pilot for 20 years, William Langewiesche presents a collection of essays about the beauty, excitement and dangers of flying. Using direct yet evocative prose, he examines how aviation has changed our global perspective.
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David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Released: 23/02/2010
Hamish Hamilton
Startling and complex, this genre-defying work by David Shields examines the blurring of reality and culture today. Creatively using appropriation, assimilation and sampling, Shields produces an exciting and controversial manifesto for life in the ‘blur'.
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