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Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Released: 18/06/2013
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Gaiman has spent his career dreaming up dark fantasy worlds and is perhaps best known for his popular graphic novel series Sandman. Recipient of countless awards and prizes, he has also turned his hand to teen and grown up fiction, TV and film. In his new novel, a Pandora's box of spirits is unleashed in rural Sussex when a mysterious man steals a car and then commits suicide.
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Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
Released: 06/06/2013
Harvill Secker
Kushner's follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Telex from Cuba (2008) has received near unanimously positive reviews in the States and has the support of fellow novelist Jonathan Franzen (who doesn't?). Set in 1977, the plot follows college graduate Reno as she makes a pilgrimage east and integrates herself into New York's bourgeoning avant-garde art scene.
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James Robertson - The Professor of Truth
Released: 06/06/2013
Penguin
Robertson is widely considered one of Scotland's greatest living writers. This follows his 700-page saga And the Land Lay Still, and is inspired by that most protracted of murder inquiries, the Lockerbie investigation. Alan Tealing still grieves the death of his wife and daughter in a bombing 21 years ago. A breakthrough in the case leads him to Australia and, perhaps, closure.
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Jonathan Dee - A Thousand Pardons
Released: 23/05/2013
Corsair
Helen's husband makes a mistake, a large, publicly humiliating one that ends their marriage. She is thrown back to the workplace after many years as a high-profile wife, and finds herself remarkably good at it, much more so than dealing with her familial mess. Dee's last book, a highly-praised study of the American rich, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Michel Rostain - The Son
Released: 23/05/2013
Tinder Press
Part memoir, part fiction, Michel Rostain's debut explores his own and his family's grief at the sudden death of his only son Lion from meningitis - all told through Lion's eyes. Wit and wisdom pervade this original and intensely personal story that won the French author the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2011 (once controversially awarded to Proust).
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James Salter - All That Is
Released: 23/05/2013
Picador
More than 30 years after the publication of his last book, 87-year-old writers' writer James Salter is back. This is a typically hard-edged and terse novel set in the wake of World War II, which follows former officer Philip Bowman's sexual exploits and his rise to notoriety within Manhattan's booming publishing scene.
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Gill Hornby - The Hive
Released: 23/05/2013
Little, Brown
Former Telegraph columnist Gill Hornby makes her fiction debut with a novel exploring female friendship and the dirty politics of primary school committees. Over the course of a school year a group of women battle for power on the fundraising committee of St Ambrose's. Sounds like a dog-eat-dog world.
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Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed
Released: 21/05/2013
Bloomsbury
Set in Afghanistan in 1952, this new book from the author of the international hit The Kite Runner (adapted for the screen and now the stage) concerns sibling unity, as a poverty-stricken brother and sister undertake a life-changing journey across the desert. This is his third novel, and follows the critically acclaimed and similarly epic A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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Louise Erdrich - The Round House
Released: 16/05/2013
Corsair
After suffering a horrific attack on a North American reservation, the life of native woman Geraldine Coutts is changed forever - but so too is that of her 13-year-old son, Joe. With his father failing in a quest for justice, Joe takes matters into his own hands. Erdrich's latest beat some big hitters to America's exalted National Book Award in 2012.
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Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
Released: 16/05/2013
Faber
In this collection of correspondences between literary behemoths and close friends Paul Auster and JM Coetzee, the two luddites exchange letters, discussing subjects ranging from sport, film and politics to incest and art (no doubt revealing a few nuggets of wisdom for aspiring writers along the way).
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Cinema
91% Grave Of The Fireflies (25th Anniversary) 86% Behind the Candelabra 82% Much Ado About Nothing 79% Our Children 78% A Hijacking 75% In the House 74% The Gatekeepers 72% In the Fog 70% Thursday Till Sunday 69% Good Vibrations 68% Rebellion 68% World War Z 68% A Late Quartet 68% Man of Steel 66% The Stoker -
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Theatre
92% Chimerica 87% Merrily We Roll Along 82% Othello 80% As You Like It 78% The Book of Mormon 76% Strange Interlude 76% Let The Right One In 75% Passion Play 68% Children of the Sun 63% Sweet Bird of Youth 56% Race - Opera & Dance
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