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The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
From Publishers WeeklyFoulds's erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson... -
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
SUMMARY: The international bestseller, finally in paperback! "Time "magazine's #1 book of the year - 11 weeks and counting on the "New York Times" bestseller list - Shortlisted for... -
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
ReviewSHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction "One of the best stories I’ve ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original... -
Briefing for a Descent Into Hel - Doris May Lessing
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Profes... -
A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
Review"The superbly gifted Louise Penny is on my secret shortlist of must-read authors, and A TRICK OF THE LIGHT proves why. Artist Clara Morrow is about to have a prestigious show...