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Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow
Released: 04/02/2010
Jonathan Cape
1970 is a crucial year of change for 20-year-old Keith Nearing. He spends the summer with five others in an Italian castle, and he becomes aware of the sexual revolution. Decades later he is forced to re-examine the era, the changes that took place and his own rather questionable attitude.
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T.C. Boyle - Wild Child
Released: 01/02/2010
Bloomsbury
Recently inducted into the Academy of Arts and Letters and dubbed one of the great storytellers of our time, T.C. Boyle introduces us to a new grouping of perceptive and imaginative stories. This captivating collection allows for the collision of nature, drama, and comedy, and summarises the multifarious nature of modern life. |
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Neel Mukherjee - A Life Apart
Released: 28/01/2010
Constable
In his debut novel, Neel Mukherjee tells the story of a young man from Calcutta’s attempt to start a new life in England. Feeling displaced and isolated, Ritwik learns that life comes full circle and that your past must be understood rather than abandoned.
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Chinua Achebe - The Education of a British-Protected Child
Released: 28/01/2010
Allen Lane
Informed by his own experiences, Chinua Achebe gives a realistic depiction of life growing up in colonial Nigeria whilst classified as a ‘British Protected Person'. Reminiscing on both happy memories and harsh realities, his satirical work reflects upon identity, relationships, and the politics behind it all.
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Roberto Bolaño - Monsieur Pain
Released: 19/01/2010
Hiccups, Paris and the occult...
Bolaño’s latest posthumous release features a Peruvian poet living in 1938 Paris and suffering from an extreme case of hiccups. Monsiuer Pain, a famous hypnotist, is enlisted to provide a cure. He fails his patient and Pain’s guilt leads him into an occult underworld.
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Boualem Sansal - An Unfinished Business
Released: 18/01/2010
Bloomsbury
Boualem Sansal never shies away from a difficult topic, and as a result his books are banned in his native Algeria. In An Unfinished Business he addresses the Holocaust, an uneasy issue in Muslim culture. Two mixed-race brothers struggle with the discovery of their German father’s dark past.
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Angelica Garnett - The Unspoken Truth
Released: 15/01/2010
Chatto & Windus
In contrast with her 1984 memoir, Deceived With Kindness, Angelica Garnett’s new collection of stories focuses on family and relationships. By disguising herself and her family in each story, she portrays a woman’s search for understanding through an impressively vivid, fictionalised take on reality.
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Best European Fiction 2010
Released: 12/01/2010
Dalkey Archive Press
Aleksandar Hemon edits this inaugural anthology of European fiction, with a foreword by Zadie Smith. Seeking to champion the continent’s best writers of contemporary fiction, it brings together the likes of Alasdair Gray, Viktor Pelevin and Julián Río - commendable attempt to address the translation imbalance.
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Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City
Released: 07/01/2010
Faber and Faber
One-time child actor Chase Insteadman is the star of the New York social scene, and his relationship with Janice Trumbull (who is trapped on the International Space Station, sending back lovelorn letters) has captured public imagination. Set in an alternative and delusional Manhattan, Lethem's new novel is as zany and tragic as it sounds.
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Joyce Carol Oates - A Fair Maiden
Released: 07/01/2010
Quercus
Joyce Carol Oates is an American literary institution with a weighty reputation. Here she ups the ‘creep’ factor with a story about teenage Katya Spivak and her imperceptibly increasing entanglement with the charming and decidedly not-so-adolescent Marcus Kidder. Are things as innocent as they first seemed?
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