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Type: Book
Date: 03 Mar 2008

Child 44

In Tom Rob Smith’s gripping thriller, the biggest threat to Leo Demidov is not the serial killer he is hunting but the State he is fighting to protect

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jul 2007

Self Help

Lies, revelations and repercussions abound in Edward Docx’s engaging novel about a dysfunctional family who are scattered across the globe

Type: Book
Date: 01 Feb 2007

The Stars in the Bright Sky

Alan Warner presents an unforgettable story of female friendship, as six young women meet at Gatwick - and prepare to go on the rampage

Type: Book
Date: 07 May 2009

The Children's Book

A.S. Byatt’s vivid and deeply affecting historical fiction is the story of a singular family, played out against the great, rippling tides of the day

Type: Book
Date: 01 Apr 2010

In a Strange Room

Damon Galgut’s haunting evocation of one man’s search for love and a place to call home - a novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion

Type: Book
Date: 01 May 2010

The Slap

At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly three-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. Christos Tsiolkas records what happens next

Type: Book
Date: 04 Mar 2010

Trespass

Worlds collide, ancient boundaries are crossed, taboos are broken and a violent crime is committed in Rose Tremain’s powerful and unsettling novel

Type: Book
Date: 21 Aug 2010

Room

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s profoundly affecting novel is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love

Type: Book
Date: 20 Aug 2010

C

Tom McCarthy’s intense life of a man steeped in the electric modernity of the early 20th century, transfixed by technologies that will obliterate him

Type: Book
Date: 11 Feb 2012

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng’s second novel is a tantalisingly evocative mystery set in Malaya in the late 1940s, a country in recovery from the Second World War