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Still Alice
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Author:
Lisa Genova
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When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old.
A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to recognise her actress daughter after a superb performance, she comes up with a desperate plan. But can she see it through? Should she see it through?
Losing her yesterdays, living for each day, her short-term memory is hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. But she is still Alice.
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The Castle in the Pyrenees
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Author:
Jostein Gaarder (Tr from Norwegian James Anderson)
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Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over a couple of weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past. This is both a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring the place of human consciousness in the universe. Its main theme is of great current interest: Can science explain everything, or does some invisible force influence our lives?
First published in Norway 2008; this translation 2010.
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The Lacuna
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Author:
Barbara Kingsolver
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Winner of the the Orange Prize for fiction 2010.
The Lacuna
is the story of a manic's search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Like no other novel yet written, it illuminates an era when bold internationalism gave way to a post-war landscape of narrowly defined 'Americanism'. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the colour red,
The Lacuna
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The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge
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Author:
Patricia Duncker
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It was New Year's Day, 2000. Hunters on their way home through a forest in the Jura stumble upon a half-circle of dead bodies lying in the freshly fallen snow. A nearby holiday chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, decorations, presents for the dead children. The hunters are questioned and sent away. As they descend the mountain, a large dark car rises past them in the gloom. The woman within barely acknowledges their presence. The Judge, Dominique Carpentier, is in charge of the investigation. Commissaire Andre Schweigen is waiting for her. They have encountered this suicide sect before. In the chalet they find a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. The book of "The Faith" leads them to the Composer, Friedrich Grosz, who is connected to every one of the dead. Surely he must be implicated in "The Faith"? And so the pursuit begins. Carpentier, Schweigen ...
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Beatrice and Virgil
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Author:
Yann Martel
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Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been. Among the hundreds of stuffed animals are Beatrice and Virgil: a monkey and a donkey, they are also the characters in a play the taxidermist is writing. When the taxidermist asks Henry for help with the play, he is drawn in. But what is the play actually about? What have the animals suffered at the hands of the author? Who is he? And what does he really want from Henry? With the imaginative reach and spirit that helped
Life of Pi
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Notes From an Exhibition
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Patrick Gale
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The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale.Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly - now of Penzance - has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage it will take months to unravel. A wondrous, monstrous creature, she exerts a power that outlives her. To her children she is both curse and blessing, though they all in one way or another reap her whirlwind, inheriting her waywardness, her power of loving - and her demons. Only their father's Quaker gifts of stillness and resilience give them any chance of withstanding her ...
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The Breaking of Eggs - now OP, order HB
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Author:
Jim Powell
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Set in 1991, our narrator Feliks Zhukovski, a displaced Polish Communist living in Paris, lies in his sick bed being tended to by his landlady of forty years, Madame Lefevre. As they embark on their first ever conversation, Feliks surprises himself by revealing that Paris is not where he considers home and indeed that he has no idea where home for him would be. Separated from his family as a child when the Nazis invaded Poland, Feliks has spent his life producing a travel guide to Iron Curtain countries for Western readers. However, following the collapse of Communism in 1989 and the imminent retirement of his long-term publisher, Feliks finds himself tipped into a maelstrom which he cannot avoid. As he journeys for the first time to America to sell his travel guide there, Feliks is reunited with his half-brother, Woodrow, who no longer considers himself a Pole but rather an American and nothing more. Feeling his own alien status ever ...
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Freeing Grace
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Author:
Charity Norman
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Witty, warm and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of a young couple: David, the vicar of an inner-city London parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife.
Not able to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family, and when they finally hear they' ve just been approved to adopt a young baby, Grace, they are over the moon. Everything is arranged, the court date is set and David and Leila are giddy with delight. There's just one problem: Grace's birth family - the enigmatic, charismatic Harrisons - have changed their minds and decided they won't give up Grace without a fight.
Enlisting the help of their friend, the feckless, charming New Zealander, Jake Kelly - who's half in love with all of the Harrisons one way or another - they plan to reclaim their baby. And that's an emotional rollercoaster, for all concerned. They only want what's best for Grace - but who can say exactly what that is?
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The Gourmet
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Author:
Muriel Barbery (tr from French Alison Anderson)
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France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed, he is tormented by an inability to recall the most delicious food to ever pass his lips, which he ate long before becoming a critic. Desperate to taste it one more time, he looks back over the years to see if he can pin down the elusive dish. Revealing far more than his love of great food, the narration by this larger-than-life individual alternates with the voices of those closest to him and their own experiences of the man. Muriel Barbery's gifts as an evocative storyteller are put to mouth-watering use in this voluptuous and poignant meditation on food and its deeper significance in our lives. A delectable treat to savour.
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The News Where You Are
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Author:
Catherine O'Flynn
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Set in Birmingham,
The News Where You Are
tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences while having to report endless local news stories of holes opening up in people's gardens and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing a page-turning novel which asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.
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