Pietro arrives in Milan with a battered suitcase full of memories, to take up a new job as concierge. Living in his palazzo are lost & eccentric souls: Poppi, a lawyer; Luciana & her son; & Luca, a doctor, whose wife Viola holds a secret that could destroy their marriage. Right from the start Pietro has a special interest in Luca & his family, & soon he`s letting himself into their apartment while everyone is out. As his story emerges in snatches & flashbacks, each prompted by his case of treasures, we begin to find out what has brought him to be guardian here, so late in his life.. . For readers of The Elegance of the Hedgehog & The Yacoubian Building, this is an atmospheric & unforgettable novel about the ties that bind. ...

This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. May be Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity & insight, it is the work of one of the world`s most distinguished writers. ...

Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) & Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. ...

Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of a friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon`s youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life & rapidly slipping into senility. With love & insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; & through the fog, Napoleon`s past begins to emerge. ...

The Separation, Dinah Jefferies` stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies & one mother`s ...

As Isaac navigates the tedium & terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them & is now acting as an informer. & as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. ...

When the manager of the village bar absconds, a succession of would-be heirs descend
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Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YAWinner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book Goodreads Choice Awards finalist A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best of 2016 Dill is a misfit in his small, religious Tennessee town. His dad is in prison for a shocking crime, & his mom is struggling to make ends meet. The only things getting Dill through senior year are his guitar & his fellow outcasts, Travis & Lydia. Travis is an oddball who finds comfort from his violent home life in an epic fantasy book series. & Lydia is like no one else: fast-talking, creative & fiercely protective. Dill fears his heart will break when she escapes to a better life elsewhere. What Dill needs now is some bravery to tell Lydia how he feels, to go somewhere with his music
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CARTER & SADIE KANE, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kanes must do something no magician has ever managed
- defeat Apophis himself. No pressure there then. Battling against the forces of Chaos, their only hope is an ancient spell
- but the magic has been lost for a millennia. Will they find the serpent`s shadow, or will they be led to their deaths in the depths of the Underworld?

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