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Philip Roth

Indignation

Indignation
Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a college student from New Jersey, who describes his sophomore year at Winesburg College in Ohio. Marcus transfers to ...read morå

Beth Revis

Across the Universe

Across the Universe
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years ...read morå

Jean-François Parot

The Mystery of Blanc Manto Street

The Mystery of Blanc Manto Street
Paris, 1761. Nicolas Le Flock is tasked to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Lardy, the Commissioner. Murder, suicide or jailbreaking? In the course of the inquiry Nicolas, who is rather inexperienced, will face dark secrets and violent ...read morå

Mary Ann Shaffer

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet ...read morå

Mario Vargas Llosa

Death in the Andes

Death in the Andes
A controversial novel set in an isolated, run-down community in the Andes. Part detective story and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, of the country's recent political violence, and of its cultural ...read morå

Virginia Woolf

Orlando

Orlando
“Orlando”, Virginia Woolf's sixth major novel, is a fantastic historical biography, which spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of its protagonist. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding ...read morå

Peter V. Brett

The Desert Spear

The Desert Spear
The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at ...read morå

Kate Morton

The Distant Hours

The Distant Hours
A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child ...read morå

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Dream of the Celt

The Dream of the Celt
“The Dream of the Celt” is a novel written by Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate in literature Mario Vargas Llosa.The novel was presented to the public on November 3, 2010 during a special ceremony held in the Casa de ...read morå

Fred Vargas

The Furious Army

The Furious Army
A little old lady, who comes from Normandy, waits for Police Superintendent Adamsberg on the footpath. Altough they have not arranged a meeting, it is with him alone that she wishes to speak. One night in her village, her daughter saw The ...read morå

Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies
“Vile Bodies” is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the Bright Young People: decadent young London society between World War I and World War II. The title is a literal translation of the Latin phrase "corpora vilia," the ...read morå

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

The Corrections
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for FictionAfter almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long ...read morå

Irvin D. Yalom

When Neitsche Wept

When Neitsche Wept
This talky first novel by psychotherapist Yalom ( Love's Executioner ) is set in 1882 Vienna, where Joseph Breuer, an eminent physician and mentor of Sigmund Freud, has applied his recently discovered talking cure to a woman afflicted with multiple ...read morå

Octavia E. Butler

Dawn

Dawn
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured ...read morå

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