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Nourishment - Gerard Woodward
Released: 03/09/2010
Picador
Tory, a housewife on the Home Front, is affronted when she receives a request from her POW husband for a dirty letter ‘by return of post’. She soon puts her distaste aside and resolves to investigate the art of erotic correspondence – with unexpected consequences. A thoughtful book from a prize-winning, Man Booker-nominated poet and novelist.
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VS Naipaul - The Masque of Africa
Released: 03/09/2010
Picador
In this journey through the dramatic landscapes of Africa, belief is the theme and the quest of this Nobel prize-winner’s narrative. From the Ivory Coast to Ghana, Nigeria to Gabon, Uganda to South Africa, Naipaul constructs a complex web of religion, folklore and myth, and masterfully explains its symbiotic relationship with the continent’s history.
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David Grossman - To the End of the Land
Released: 02/09/2010
Jonathan Cape
Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, this award-winning book sees middle-aged Ora and her ex-lover Avram head to the hills to hide from any potentially life-shattering news about their soldier son. Ora's tender stories of motherhood intermingle with Avram's traumatic experiences as a prisoner of war. An affecting portrayal of modern Israeli life.
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DBC Pierre - Lights Out in Wonderland
Released: 02/09/2010
Faber and Faber
DBC Pierre’s third novel tracks the progress of thinker Gabriel Brockwell in his pursuit of pleasure. This being Pierre, however, Brockwell’s quest doesn’t end at rehab. The novel incorporates sex with an octopus, the dangers of pufferfish ovaries and riotous overindulgence in a German airport before its surreal conclusion.
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Michael Frayn - My Father's Fortune: A Life
Released: 02/09/2010
Faber and Faber
British institution Michael Frayn revisits his childhood and finds it transformed almost beyond recognition by his adult perspective. Taking centre stage in this narrative of rediscovery is his father, whose determination to wring every drop out of life, despite its difficult start and many tragedies, throws fresh light on Frayn's own existence.
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Cate Kennedy - The World Beneath
Released: 01/09/2010
Atlantic
Rich, once a young, loved-up tree-hugger, is now a middle-aged, divorced naturephobe. Hoping to reconnect with his teenage daughter, he proposes a hike through Australia’s unforgiving wilderness – and soon the stakes are higher than a few scrapes and some father-daughter bickering. A suspenseful first novel from the acclaimed short-story writer.
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Alex Miller - Lovesong
Released: 01/09/2010
Allen & Unwin
An Australian journalist, lost in a rundown slaughterhouse district in central France, steps out of the rain into a Tunisian café where Sabiha is waitressing. From this chance encounter blossoms love, but when we next meet them, years later, they have been transformed by the consequences of their affair.
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Roberto Bolaño - The Insufferable Gaucho
Released: 31/08/2010
New Directions
Five short stories and two essays – a few of which are published in English for the first time here – make up this collection by the late Chilean literary sensation. The title story, in which a retired bankrupt lawyer retreats to the countryside and finds strange things afoot, is particularly haunting. Dark, electric and deeply compelling.
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Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
Released: 19/08/2010
Doubleday
In her much anticipated new novel, Kate Atkinson weaves together the lives of security chief Tracy Waterhouse, fading actress Tilly and police detective Jackson Brodie with a maltreated dog in tow. Over a series of peculiar predicaments, larger problems loom and all three learn that the past cannot be escaped.
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Francis Spufford - Red Plenty
Released: 19/08/2010
Faber and Faber
Part historical account, part novel and part book of ideas, Francis Spufford's latest work is a vivid snapshot of the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Meticulously researched and entertainingly told, it is - surprisingly for a book about rubber production and planned economies - a gripping and unusual read.
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