The Long Way Home by Karen McQuestion

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The Long Way Home by Karen McQuestion

By Admin on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | No Comments

Description Four women bound by chance take the trip of a lifetime in Karen McQuestion’s fifth novel The Long Way Home. For Wisconsinites Marnie, Laverne and Rita, life isn’t working out so well. Each is biding time, waiting for something better, something to transport them out of what their lives have recently become. And then [...]

Rome’s Executioner Vespasian by Robert Fabbri

By Admin on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Description Thracia, AD30: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can’t escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before [...]

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier

By Admin on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 | No Comments

Description Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that takes him across Europe. Abandoning his job and his life and travelling with a dusty old book as his talisman, he heads for Lisbon in search of clues to the life of the book’s Portuguese author, Amadeu de Prado. [...]

Partitions by Amit Majmudar

By Admin on Friday, May 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Description As India is rent overnight into two nations, sectarian violence explodes on both sides of the new border, with tidal waves of refugees fleeing the blood and chaos. Fighting to board the last train to Delhi, Shankar and Keshav, six-year-old Hindu twins, lose sight of their mother and plunge into the whirling human mass [...]

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

By Admin on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 | No Comments

Description Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see [...]

Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed

By Admin on Saturday, May 5th, 2012 | No Comments

Description Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a [...]

Never Mind Melrose Novels 1 by Edward St Aubyn

By Admin on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

Description ‘The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funny’ David Sexton, Evening Standard At his mother’s family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of [...]

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

By Admin on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | No Comments

Description One last full moon – then it will all be over.Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two hundred years he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he cannot [...]

The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna

By Admin on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | No Comments

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Delicacy by David Foenkinos

By Admin on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Description He was passing by, she kissed him without thinking. Now she wonders whether she did the right thing. But Natalie isn’t certain of anything anymore. One minute she was a happily married young woman, successful in her career, and convinced the future was full of promise. But when her husband was run over by [...]

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The Long Way Home by Karen McQuestion

Rome’s Executioner Vespasian by Robert Fabbri

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier

Partitions by Amit Majmudar

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed

Never Mind Melrose Novels 1 by Edward St Aubyn

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna

Delicacy by David Foenkinos

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