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  • In a Strange Room

    In a Strange Room
    Damon Galgut

    Paperback · 01 Apr 2010 · €17.35
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  • The Slap

    The Slap
    Christos Tsiolkas

    Paperback · 01 May 2010 · €17.35
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    At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen.

  • The Finkler Question

    The Finkler Question
    Howard Jacobson

    Paperback · 02 Aug 2010 · €17.35
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    Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick.

  • The Long Song

    The Long Song
    Andrea Levy

    Paperback · 04 Feb 2010 · €20.00
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    Praise for Andrea Levy: 'There is great skill in the way she presents characters and dialogue; she has powers of observation and an ear for language that make her books a pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement

  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

    The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
    David Mitchell

    Paperback · 13 May 2010 · €17.35
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    The electrifying new novel by 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent.

  • Room

    Room
    Emma Donoghue

    Paperback · 06 Aug 2010 · €17.35
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    Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways - loving, funny, and bright - his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world.

  • Skippy Dies

    Skippy Dies
    Paul Murray

    Paperback · 04 Feb 2010 · €18.70
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    Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention.

  • C

    C
    Tom McCarthy

    Hardback · 05 Aug 2010 · €22.70
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    Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect.

  • February

    February
    Lisa Moore

    Paperback · 28 Jan 2010 · €17.35
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    In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. Her story starts years after the Ranger disaster.

  • Trespass

    Trespass
    Rose Tremain

    Paperback · 04 Mar 2010 · €17.35
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    In a silent valley stands an isolated farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his land go to ruin. Set in the beautiful heartland of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and revenge.

  • The Stars in the Bright Sky

    The Stars in the Bright Sky
    Alan Warner

    Paperback · 06 May 2010 · €17.35

    The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava and are ready to go on the rampage. Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas?

  • Parrot and Olivier in America

    Parrot and Olivier in America
    Peter Carey

    Paperback · 04 Feb 2010 · €17.35
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