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A bitter-sweet novel about an elderly butler and his dog. He is old and lonely and his little dog serves to remind him of his increasing age. He is ... More

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From the author of the award-winning 'Alma Cogan' comes this story of a middle-aged reporter and a veteran press photographer. The 2 men are shadows ... More

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Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with unease, an unease compounded by the early death of his friend ... More

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Sitting in the Last Words support group in Heaven, Ray Williams ruminates on his short life of 50 years, his episodes of infidelity, his premature ... More

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Sitting in heaven, Ray Williams reflects back on his difficult life--including his adulterous marriage, moments of sexual confusion, his worst deed, ... More

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Here is Nicholson Baker at his obsessive-compulsive best, with humour and observation to die for, but with underlying truths and sadness about the ... More

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When down-on-his-luck Adam meets "Selph, " a precocious kid who claims to be Adam's spiritual teacher, metaphysical adventure abounds. From the ... More

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-- When Arthur Middleton falls for Annabel, a young woman of his son's generation, he sets into motion an intertwining of affairs between five close ... More

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Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel ... More

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Frank, a private eye in Brighton, is the perfect lodger: neat, quiet and solitary, a decent man leading an uneventful life. Then his neighbour ... More

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Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, ... More

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When a group of travellers arrive in a small country village, all the inhabitants forsee them causing chaos, but no-one imagines the disruption that ... More

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The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. From his first ... More

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In a novel that "will grab your heart" (Library Journal), a mother's absence continues to reverberate in the lives of the husband and two children ... More

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'One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.' Stephen Fry An inventively nasty, gruesomely comic ... More

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Sam Martin feels himself to be lucky, living in rich retirement and good health despite his old age, busying himself with painting, walking and the ... More

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Michael Vitch's life is secretive and repetitious, until a stranger's suicide and the arrival of May, a young Bosnian refugee, stir up emotions he ... More

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'She was coming toward him in a crooked purple tube top and baggy shorts and brassy sandals studded with rhinestones. She carried a huge pink patent ... More

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Lucas Salik, eminent surgeon, is accustomed to performing bold experiments on other people's hearts. Many might think him cold-hearted, but Lucas is ... More

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