... a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a charming, warm and funny novel, beautifully woven with ...
... the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. About The ... of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch ( ...
... Runaway Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller and Thriller of the Year Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She ... 'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train Author: Paula Hawkins. Format: Paperback ...
There are two sides to every story... The No.1 bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, Gone Girl is now a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Includes Reading Group Notes. 'What are you ...
... 's characteristic perceptiveness, backed by meticulous historical research and superb storytelling skills, The Other Boleyn Girl brings a legendary court, its politics, personalities and scheming vividly to life. Author ...
... and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impress (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on ...
... . Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared ...
... Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of ...
... selection There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from ...
... . We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in ...
... biggest story of her life and HALAJAN, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the ... WOMAN GOES BEHIND THE VEIL. She spent five years teaching and later directing the Kabul Beauty School, ...
... , a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended' On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of ...
... short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are Fahrenheit 451 , The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles . Author ...
... in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was initially rejected by the publisher she submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much ...
... Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr ...
... as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race ...
... of dystopian fiction. 'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'This novel seems ever more vital in the present day' Observer READ THE TESTAMENTS ...
... Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable ...
... hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but ...
... which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in ...
... see a more entertaining, heartfelt piece of Australian literature in the next 12 months, it will be a rare year indeed - an Australian To Kill a Mockingbird.' - The Monthly 'It's genius.' - West Australian '. impossible ...
... Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne and Paris, Michelle has worked ... , including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the ...
... never get round to it' Spectator Books of the Year At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man ... 't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about ...
... happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking ...
... was born on 7 February 1812. He began Oliver Twist in 1837, followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41). A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843, David Copperfield in 1850. In later works, such ...
... to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and an astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal ...
... loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on ... And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. For Falk and his childhood friend ...
... a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads. Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real ...
... go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. About the Author David Nicholls trained as an actor before ...
... . Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't. 'THE LITERARY ...
... , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million ...
... they must respond in kind. A friend to everyone, Bobby is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his new friends. Inexorably, he is drawn into a series of events that ...
... 's Wife, The Night Circus is an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality. It will dazzle readers young and old with its virtuoso performance, and who knows, they might not want to leave the world it creates. About the ...
... As Thornhill stakes his claim on a patch of ground by the Hawkesbury River, the battle lines between the old and new inhabitants are drawn. The critics agree, The Secret River is a masterpiece; a spellbinding Australian ...
... Morning Herald Named one of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of the Year and People magazine's Top Ten Books of the Year Author: Liane Moriarty. Format: Paperback Booktopia Gift Guide Fiction Guaranteed Good Reads ...
When the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called “La Celeste Praline” directly across the square from the church, Father Reynaud identifies her ...
... and he was raised by several female relatives. In 1844 he entered the University of Kazan, remaining there only three years. At the age of 23, Tolstoy joined the Russian Army and fought in the Crimean War. While still in ...
... the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un ... His most recent novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage , sold one million copies in its ...
... about to tell the little lies that can turn lethal ... WINNER OF THE ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR PRAISE FOR BIG LITTLE LIES "Irresistible ... Moriarty's sly humor and razor-sharp insights will keep you turning ...
... Clare's relationship? Are there any points in the story where you dislike either of their characters 'His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time - Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks in the blank skin ...
... Prize. His previous novel, Black Swan Green , was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Author: David Mitchell. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Booktopia Gift Guide Fiction ...
Winner of the Man Booker prize 2008 Winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards 'Author of The Year' 2009 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an ...
... him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita . He died in 1940 ...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016 Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves ...
... The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. The Lacuna , won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Author: Barbara Kingsolver. Format: Paperback ...
... writer' Courier-Mail About the Author Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March, Year of Wonders, and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was ...
... dystopian fiction. 'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist', Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other. Author: Margaret Atwood. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Text ...
... and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious ...
... , joyful, mournful, profound... one of the best novels I've read this century' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL 'A box of delights ... it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets go ...
... BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of ...
... of Neanderthal, the Clan. See how the Clan's wary suspicion is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl, so different from them, under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Immerse ...
Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school ...
... : indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the ...
... heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing. In his first novel for seven years, Tim Winton has achieved a new level of mastery. Breath confirms him as one of the world's finest storytellers ...
... the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As ...
... . In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies ... most wanted men for what turned out to be the next ten years. For most of this period he lived in Bombay. He set ...
... release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in ...
... Spare Room is a great book.' - Peter Carey 'The Spare Room : Garner's first novel in fifteen years, a lean claustrophobic drama about a cancer sufferer and the friend she calls on for help, illuminates the big questions ...
... famous classic. 'It is the book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years.' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph Author: George Orwell. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction ...
... them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and ...
... was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature ...
A story of love, friendship and memory. In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary ...
... 's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets ...
... regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Author: Vasily Grossman. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Action & Adventure War, Combat & ...
Brave New World is still one of the most shocking, unnerving and prophetic novels ever written. Mass-consumerism, individualism, total reliance on technology- it is a future that appears to be here already. Welcome to ...
Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Read Jane Austen's unsung ...
Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Beautifully designed... ...
Grounded in recent research on the challenges of working with two-year-olds, Places for Two-year-olds in the Early Years explores how this often overlooked age group is presented in policy and practice, and discusses why ...
Grounded in recent research on the challenges of working with two-year-olds, Places for Two-year-olds in the Early Years explores how this often overlooked age group is presented in policy and practice, and discusses why ...
... for each level: "Civil rights" > "Votes for women" (11 - 14 year olds) > "Rosa Parks" (14-16 year olds) > "The Disappeared" (16 - 18 year olds) Each stimuli is given its own page dedicated to exploring its possibilities ...
... collected by Helen Paiba is a rancidly revolting collection of gross stories that will make any nine-year-old laugh and are perfect for reading time and again. With stories from Andy Griffiths, Dick King-Smith, Joyce ...
... collection of gross stories that will make any ten-year-old laugh and are perfect for reading time and again. ... children's booksellers in Britain. For more than twenty years she owned and ran the Children's Bookshop in ...
... accompanied by hilarious illustrations to give young readers fits of giggles. The perfect gift for any 7-year-old who loves telling jokes and entertaining their friends and family! About the Author Amanda Li loves writes ...
... with rib-tickling jokes, all specially selected for 8-year-olds. Puns, 'knock knocks' and gags galore are accompanied ... of giggles. The perfect gift for any 8-year-old who loves telling jokes and entertaining their friends ...
Is it ever too late to change... After a health scare, 77 year-old spinster Barbara goes to convalesce in the sleepy Somerset village of Winsleigh Green with her sister Pauline, who is now a widow. The sisters are like ...
... Her Animal Stories series include Animal Stories for 5 Year Olds, Animal Stories for 6 Year Olds, Animal Stories for 7 Year Olds and Animal Stories for 8 Year Olds. Author: Helen Paiba. Format: Paperback Kids & Children ...
Bedtime Stories for 6 Year Olds is a rich and varied selection of heart-warming stories, perfect for snuggling up with at bedtime, by some of the very best writers for children. Great for reading alone or reading aloud - ...
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