In Our Mad and Furious City
By: Guy Gunaratne
3.87
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it do…
Want to Read $ 9.68"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
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1. Work Like Any Other
By: Virginia Reeves
3.73
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth centu… read more
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2. Did You Ever Have a Family
By: Bill Clegg
3.79
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about… read more
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"I knew I didn’t want to be alone anymore."-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
"[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it."-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
"The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned."-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
"[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code."-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
3. Reservoir 13
By: Jon McGregor
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more
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4. All That Man Is
By: David Szalay
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism. Nine… read more
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5. Solar Bones
By: Mike McCormack
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
the Angelus bell ringing out over its villages and townlands, over the fields and hills and bogs in… read more
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6. The Schooldays of Jesus
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memor… read more
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7. The Unit
By: Marlaine Delargy , Ninni Holmqvist
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Trade Paper
One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological m… read more
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8. The Green Road
By: Anne Enright
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on … read more
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9. Little Big Man
By: Thomas Berger
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of… read more
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10. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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11. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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12. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
13. The Long Take
By: Robin Robertson
3.83
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy land… read more
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14. Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more
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"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
15. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
16. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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17. Siblings
By: Brigitte Reimann
3.55
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us … read more
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18. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
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"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
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"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
20. In Our Mad and Furious City
By: Guy Gunaratne
3.87
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it do… read more
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- novels
- adult
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"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
