“Atonement” by Ian McEwan “On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony 's incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precious literary gifts de ella –brings about a crime that will change all
“When will there be good news?” by Kate Atkinson “Three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls “an absolute must-read.”” Retrieved from Amazon. See also: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/16/crime http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/books/info/?t=When-Will-There-Be-Good -News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Will_There_Be_Good_News%3F The selected titles are a sample of the materials of
“The Powerbook” by Jeanette Winterson “The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the
“The Keepers of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks “The Keepers of the Book takes place after the Bosnian war, when Hanna, a young bibliophile, moves to Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. Already in Bosnia, she will start working on the restoration of the Sarajevo Haggadah - a Jewish prayer book - to try to
“A Midnight Dream” by William Shakespeare “Shakespeare's comic world begins to join our series with his two pieces, perhaps more characterized, in very different ways: A Midnight Dream, dazzling fantasy in which planes of magic and planes of reality alternate, and
“My sister lives on the mantelpiece” by Annabel Pitcher “Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents of him are wrecked by their grief of him; Jasmine turns
“Ancient Light” by John Banville “Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother. Love may be too strong a word, but I know of no softer word that can be applied.” Thus begins this masterful novel, one of the literary events of the year. Alexander Clave is an old theater actor who remembers
“The distant hours” by Kate Morton “Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Extracted from House of the Book. See also: http://www.katemorton.com/synopsis/
“Leaving Atocha station “ by Ben Lerner “In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.” Extracted from Amazon. See also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/05/leaving-atocha-station-ben-lerner http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/leaving-the-atocha-station/ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11100788-leaving-the-atocha-station http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/03/04/readers-den-leaving-atocha-station -ben-lerner-week-1 The titles
“Felix in the underworld” by John Mortimer “Writer Felix Morsom no longer writes bestsellers. Then he hears about Gavin, an destroyed by the Parental Rights and Obligations Department. They meet, and he is introduced to Miriam who claims that Felix is the father of her son. He then finds himself the chief suspect in a