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Quinn
'Hypnotically beautiful' - Mark Haddon
2023
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A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet* A Scotsman 'Best Book of 2023' *From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgivenessHow far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness?Quinn is serving a life sentence for a crime he's convinced he hasn't committed. S...
Antlers of Water
Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
- by
- Jacqueline BainAnne CampbellJim CarruthLinda CracknellJim CrumleyAlec FinlayGavin FrancisDavid James GrinlyJen HadfieldLesley HarrisonSally HubandAmy LiptrotGerry LooseHayden LorimerGarry MackenzieKarine PolwartChris PowiciChitra RamaswamyJess SmithDougie StrangEm StrangMalachy TallackAmanda Thomson
2020
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'Luminous' The Times'Beautiful’ Caught by the RiverBringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography.Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malac...
Unabridged
3 hours 53 min
2023
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Quinn is serving a life sentence for a crime he's convinced he hasn't committed. Surely the authorities have got it wrong, and when they find his childhood sweetheart, Andrea, his name will be cleared. His parole is drawing near when he receives an unexpected letter from Andrea's mother, who invites Quinn to share her home. It soon becomes apparent that what appears to be a genuine act of forgiveness is influenced by more complex motivations. As they navigate the thorny terrain of guilt, j...
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Fractured Soul
A Novel
- Translated by
- Alison Anderson
2023
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Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu’s violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his father’s arrest. He will never see him again. Salvaging his father’s instr...
Stealing
A Novel
2023
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“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book ReviewA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejud...
Solovyov and Larionov
From the award-winning author of Laurus
- Translated by
- Lisa C. Hayden
2018
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'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New YorkerA groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The AviatorCan we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?From the winner of the 2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize, and the author of the multi-award winning Laurus, comes a...
Ghost Girl, Banana
A Novel
2023
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Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and wet England, Sook-Yi...
Night Wherever We Go
A Novel
2023
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A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post***• Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library Journal***A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their ownersOn a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himse...
- Translated by
- Lizzie DavisThomas Bunstead
2022
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“The Wonders is a poet’s novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.” —Hilary MantelLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDNOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGESFrom award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the streets of Madr...
Moonrise Over New Jessup
A Novel
2023
EN
"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil during the Civil Rights Movement.
A Council of Dolls
A Novel
2023
EN
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new work of historical fiction from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, a powerful family saga spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian b...
2023
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“Fantastically original doesn’t begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible—from a fractured century of agonies and betrayals, she has woven a novel of immense beauty and regeneration.” — Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoWinner of the William Saroyan International Prize for WritingLonglisted for the...











