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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon
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- Finding herself an orphan, Flora Post decides to fling herself on the mercy of a curious, rural, sinister branch of her family called the Starkadders. Flora is a sensible girl though and with determination she moves to the run down farm in Sussex and applies herself to cleaning up the family and sorting out their lives. A delightful book; funny, camp and extremely satisfying.
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We had it so Good by Linda Grant
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- Born to hardworking immigrant parents in LA, Stephen Newman never anticipated the sensation of dreary numbness that descends upon him in late middle age in a North London suburb. Unhappily married, bewildered by his children and with a dubious moral compass, Stephen must come to terms with the tragedy inherent in chronology. A gripping family saga.
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Lanark by Alasdair Gray
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- A new edition of Alasdair Gray's cult, postmodern classic, introduced by William Boyd. The novel's four books follow the lives of the young, disassociated Lanark through a dark dystopia, and Duncan Thaw, a frustrated artist growing up in pre-War Glasgow.
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The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
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- A writer is devastated when his passionate affair with a married woman is brought to an end with no explanation. A heart-breaking story about love and religion set in wartime London.
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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
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- Graham Greene's chilling depiction of his most famous anti-hero, 17 year-old Pinkie the leader of a gang in the slums of 1930s Brighton. A gripping story of Pinkie's unravelling and his relationship with the naive, optimistic Rose.
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Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl
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- In beautifully evocative prose Grondahl weaves an exotic contemplation of identity. His narrator's interior monologue, formed of recollection and reflection on life with his departed wife, is fluent and deeply moving.
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Married Love by Tessa Hadley
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- There is a hint of the subversive in Tessa Hadley's delicate, meditative chronicles of contemporary love. Whilst each story is rich with the vocabulary of modern life - her characters negotiate their relationships via Facebook and text message - there is a psychological urgency that recalls Henry James' 19th century narratives. An unusual, exciting collection.
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The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
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- A powerful, feminist dystopia set in Cumbria where a woman flees the control of a draconian government to join a freedom-fighting, all-female commune in the hills. Extremely well-written and evocative of the landscape, it is interesting without being everyone's cup of tea.
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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- This is a magical and terrible insight into the human soul, portraying a mind driven by starvation to extremes of euphoria and despair. The undisputed masterpiece of a profoundly important writer, 'Hunger' delivers existential brilliance of which disciples like Paul Auster, who introduces this volume, can only dream.
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Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
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- Representative of the compassion that infused Hamsun's later novels, 'Mysteries' recounts the experiences of a troubled young man visiting a sedate coastal town one summer. Delightfully told and deceptively powerful.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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- The woeful tale of Tess, a beautiful and innocent country girl who is crushed by the failings of her irresponsible father, a lecherous landowner and a sanctimonious preacher's son. Wonderful descriptions of the English countryside, a metaphorical tale about the effects of the industrial revolution on rural life and Hardy’s fury at hypocritical, chauvinist Victorian values.
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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- Not for the faint-hearted, this desperate but ravishingly poetic novel is the story of Jude, a rural, working class man who longs to become an Oxford scholar and of his love for his cousin Sue. As with Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy explores themes of modernism and its affect on the countryside and its people.
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Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
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- After growing up with a mobster father, clock repairer Joe Spork is desperate to live a quiet life. But when Joe is called in to repair a particular mechanism, he unwittingly triggers a doomsday device, The Apprehension Engine, and is sent on the run from both the government and a sinister organization known as `The Ruskinites'. An imaginative, energetic novel, reminiscent of The 39 Steps.
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The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
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- A summer spent in Norfolk in 1900 when twelve year-old Leo, bored and eager to impress, ferries love letters between his host's sister and her secret lover, has disastrous consequences. An evocative tale of doom set in a time of strict social and moral codes and on the eve of the two World Wars.
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The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
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- Sixty year old Jake, the hero of Samantha Harvey's extraordinary, debut novel, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. He narrates the story in a series of confused, unreliable memoiries occasionally interupted by bursts of clarity. An astonishing, ambitious portrait of the disease, a meditation on the nature of memory and truth and an engaging mystery.
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101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason
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- A darkly hilarious novel of disaffection, perversity and domestic chaos. Its hero Hlynur Bjorn is a slothful teenager trapped in a thirty-something's body, who finds his own perpetual identity crisis worsened by that of his mother. Great stuff.
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The Small Hand by Susan Hill
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- You've got to give it to her, Hill is a master of the spooky story. One night, driving home through the autumn twilight, the lonely hero of this novella discovers a ruined house. While he's standing there alone in the growing darkness, the birds go silent and a small, cool hand slips into his.
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I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
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- Ostensibly a children's book about how a young boy and his mother move into the isolated Victorian country house of a man and his son. Yet, the sinister and downright chilling relationship between the two boys is astonishingly powerful for any reader. Inspired by a summer Susan Hill spent living in Wiltshire listening to the farmer calling to his cows by day and the silence of the countryside by night.
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
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- A contemporary classic, this atmospheric literary thriller is as compelling as they come. A fine Scandinavian novel.
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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- A sinister tale about a young man living in 19th century Edinburgh who is haunted and then forced into a life of crime by a mysterious doppelganger. As surreal and experimental as Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
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- The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the 2004 Booker-winning The Line of Beauty, The Stranger's Child is dripping with great reviews. A deeply affecting depiction of two families and an ever-pertinent examination of what it means to be British.
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A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
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- Extracts from A. E. Housman's cycle of 63 poems dwelling on English rural life and mortality.
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Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
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- A quite brilliant, gritty thriller following Detective Erlendur as he investigates the grisly murder of a Reykjavik hotel doorman (and occasional Santa Claus) Gudlauger.
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Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason
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- A boy is found murdered in Reykjavik. Another grizzly case to solve, with personal ramifications for Inspector Erlendur.
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Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
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- Another briliiant addition to the Detective Erlendur series. The apparent suicide of a young woman prompts Erlendur to explore unsolved missing person's reports from years before and the disappearance of his own brother. Thrilling Scandanavian stuff.
