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Literature & Fiction

Hugo Hamilton

Contemporary

Minerva

Bless the Thief

Alan Wall

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Walking a very fine line between fantasy and reality, Christine  Chandler describes a series of sexual encounters and an ever-growing  erotic obsession that leads from a New Year's Eve pick-up to an  irrevocable act of horrifying violence. 40,000 first printing.

Sex Crimes

Jenefer Shute

The Hundred Brothers

Antrim, Donald

Two novellas in which youth kicks against a besieging authority. Abigail pines for her lover during school assemblies, but romance is snatched from her when he crashes the car stolen for their joy ride. The author also wrote "Redhill Rococo", "Dundin" and "The Orchard on Fire".

Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger

The story of two women living in the Earls Court area of London. When, with the fecklessness of youth, Sidonie O'Neill becomes the lover of her neighbours, Pam and Lenny, she finds herself in a state of limbo as she veers between the two.

Music Upstairs

shena-mackay

<p>A novel set in Redhill, Surrey, during a gloriously hot summer. Rebuffed by fortune, Luke Ribbons yearns for the alluringly fragrant bosom and soft, blousy mother-love of Pearl Slattery, but she doesn't share his romantic vision. By the author of "Dunedin" and "The Laughing Academy".</p>

Redhill Rococo

Daphne and Rex live lives of well-to-do elegance while Rex's brother Stanley scrimps for tobacco and Camp coffee. Rex's daughter has also become a victim; her cruel husband has turned her into an eccentric skivvy. If life is a bowl of cherries, there are always those left with the bruised remnants.

A Bowl of Cherries

A heartwrenching tale of a family's dissolution told from a child's crystalline perspective.  Luck is the beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about a nuclear family living in a small German town—wonderfully translated by Gert Hofmann's son, acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann. It begins and ends on the same day, the "last day" of the narrator's childhood as he prepares to leave home with Father, because Mother is waiting for her new man to arrive, and his sister will stay behind. Or will they really leave? Mother sits in her room, squirting herself with perfume. Father endlessly postpones his packing, hoping for a magical conversation that will mend his marriage. His little sister spits on her new dress, and asks....

Luck

Gert Hofmann

<p>Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov- has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle, and her fierce, burning desire for life. Lovely Green Eyes explores the compromises and sacrifices that an individual may make in order to survive, the way a woman can retain her identity in the face of appalling trauma, and the value of human life itself. This is a remarkable novel, which soars beyond nightmare, leaving the reader with a transcendent sense of hope. Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers.</p>

Lovely Green Eyes

Arnošt Lustig

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