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THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western.

Filled with a cast of characters--losers, cheaters, ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life-

It is a violent odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s

The Imperfectionists

by Tom Rachman

• Set in Rome, The Imperfectionists is a novel told in linked stories about the private lives of the reporters, editors and executives at an international English-language newspaper as they struggle to keep their publication—and themselves—afloat

Here is New York by E. B. White

• is a slim booklet (45 pages)

• is amazing book, perhaps the most apt description of New York City

The love of a good woman by Alice Munro

• The stories in this book are about love – but love as an affliction, a savage, irrational passion, obsession…

• There are also stories about friendships and risks, the changes in marriage and life, the distresses and diseases…

• An entertaining comic entertaining comic novelnovel about the superficiality of the celebrity world, and the effect of fame on those thrust unexpectedly into the limelight. Jimmy Conway is an ordinary bloke, who has reached his mid thirties without achieving much…

• This book covers a whole week in December in London. It follows a number of people that are invited to a dinner party later that week (on the last day of the week). The people are all very different, there is a professional soccer player, a hedge fund manager, a book critic, a lawyer, a chutney manufacturer, and several others.

• Strout's Olive Kitteridge is a collection of 13 interlinked short stories. Detailing the lives and problems of the residents of Crosby, Maine, from a musician haunted by a past romance to a former student who has lost the will to live, it is held together by the central, larger-than-life character of retired schoolteacher Olive Kitteridge.

• This is an easy to read and poignant but also humorous account of the author’s life in Blackburn in the early part of the 20th century

• It illustrates well the hardship poverty and life of a normal family.

A MASTERPIECE !!!A MUST!

UNMISSABLE!

A Confederacy of Dunces is one of two novels written by John Kennedy Toole, the other being The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16. Neither book was published during Toole's lifetime. Following Toole's suicide, his mother …

The misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, a modern Don Quixote.

• gripping psychological thriller about a marriage

• Nick Dunne’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

NADINE GORDIMER

THE CONSERVATIONISTTHE CONSERVATIONIST

In South Africa under apartheid, Mehring is a rich white businessman who is not satisfied with his life. His ex-wife has gone to America.

Out of a whim he buys a farm outside the city, but it is clear that he knows next to nothing about farming, and that black workers run it - Mehring is simply an outsider, an intruder on the daily life …

• It is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage

When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his

sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered…

A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of Canada greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.

A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir .

A middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. …….But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, …..

Tom Standage

When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life – and…

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