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By: Barry Unsworth
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Norton: 1993
Seller ID: 0007806
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and ... View more info
By: DBC Pierre
Price: $10.99
Publisher: Faber: 2003
Seller ID: 0007402
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By: Eleanor Catton
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Publisher: M&S: 2013
Seller ID: 0023925
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By: Graham Swift
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Vintage Canada: 1997
Seller ID: 0001278
"Last Orders" is the story of four men once close to London butcher Jack Dodds, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. The men, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack and their favourite pub, must make their way down to a seaside town to complete the task. Through conversation and memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident; through the Second World War and its aftermath, through the dra... View more info
By: Hilary Mantel
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing: 2012
Seller ID: 0019673
By: Ismail Kadare
Price: $10.99
Publisher: Bond Street Books: 2003
Seller ID: 0009644
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By: Keri Hulme
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Penguin: 1986
Seller ID: 0020000
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor--a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and no... View more info
By: Marlon James
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Publisher: Riverhead Books: 2015
Seller ID: 0031387
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By: Roddy Doyle
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Penguin: 1993
Seller ID: 0000355
In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the "Barrytown Trilogy," takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant--and adored by critics and readers alike--Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the trumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of Paddy as he tries to make sense of his changing world. View more info
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Counterpoint: 1999
Seller ID: 0010398
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her da... View more info
By: Yann Martel
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2002
Seller ID: 0001038
Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe. Growing up in Pondicherry, India, Piscine Molitor Patel -- known as Pi... View more info
