The Glass Palace

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled. The picture of the tension between the Burmese, the Indian and the British, is excellent. Among the great range of characters are one of the court ladies, Miss Dolly, whom he marries: and the redoubtable Jonakin, part of the British-educated Indian colony, who with her husband has been put in charge of the Burmese exiled court. The story follows the fortunes - rubber estates in Malaya, businesses in Singapore, estates in Burma - which Rajkumar, with his Chinese, British and Burmese relations, friends and associates, builds up - from 1870 through the Second World War to the scattering of the extended family to New York and Thailand, London and Hong Kong in the post-war years.

Literature & Fiction

Ghosh, Amitav

Contemporary

The Borough Press

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-02 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. . Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life. while her brother basks in the limelight as a New York jazz musician. But when Edison arrives in Iowa. suddenly in need of a place to stay. Pandora literally doesnt recognize him. The once slim. hip pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened Soon Edisons appalling diet and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her husband Fletcher insane. And its only a matter of time before Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum. its him . or me With Shrivers distinctive wit and ferocious energy. Big Brother not only examines why we overeat. but asks more pressingly still...

Big Brother

LIONEL SHRIVER

Literary

Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival.
Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil. In her search for justice in a land ravaged by death and destruction, she uncovers disturbing truths.
Hasina, forced by tradition into the role of wife and mother, lives in a village which is taken by British Forces. Her only son, Aref, is part of a network of underground fighters and she is determined to protect him, whatever the cost.
Ellen and Hasina are thrown together - one fighting for survival, the other searching for truth - with devastating consequences for them both.
The Last Kestrel is a deeply moving and lyrical story of disparate lives - innocent and not-so-innocent - caught up in the horrors of war. It is a book which will resonate with fans of The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul.

The Last Kestrel: ‘A moving, compassionate and impressive first-novel which fans of The Kite Runner will love’ - Daily Mail

McGivering, Jill

There’s little room in this world for a moral man.
Meet Early “Trenchmouth“ Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleasures women, and masters the rifle - a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal wars.
A teenaged union sniper, Trenchmouth is exiled to the backwoods of Appalachia’s foothills, where he spends his years running from the past. But trouble will sniff a man down, and an outlaw will eventually run home.
Here, Trenchmouth Taggart’s story, like the best ballads, etches its mark deep upon the memory.

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

TAYLOR, M. GLENN

The Heroes' Welcome

Louisa Young

HEROES WELCOME PB

Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin.1797, West Yorkshire.When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention is to sketch the house and grounds, receive his commission and return to London, where he has started attracting serious attention at the Royal Academy.But things at the grand house are not quite as he expects. The atmosphere is strange, both above and below stairs, and Will’s treatment by his hosts is surprisingly offhand. Most perplexing of all, however, is the appearance of another painter – his childhood friend and now rival, Tom Girtin. While Tom is welcomed into the aristocratic circle, Will finds few allies. As it becomes harder to ignore the whispers of scandal , Will witnesses something that will threaten both his commission and his friendship.Alive with intrigue, artistic rivalry, Will & Tom offers a glimpse into the early life of Britain’s greatest painter, J M W Turner, through the story of a complicated, vibrant friendship, and how it is tested by the dark dynamic of art and power.

Will & Tom

Plampin, Matthew

Genre Fiction

A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.
‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES
Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate.
‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?

The New Republic

Humor & Entertainment

SHRIVER, Lionel

Humor

A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction.What would you do if the world was brought to a standstill? If you heard deafening static followed by the words, ‘My children. Do not be afraid’?Would you turn to God? Subscribe to the conspiracy theories? Or put your faith in science and a rational explanation?The lives of all twenty-six people in this account are affected by the message. Most because they heard it. Some because they didn’t.The Testimony – a gripping story of the world brought to its knees and of its people, confused and afraid.

The Testimony

Smythe, James

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-13 Pages: 656 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins New York. 1899 Two strangers. one destiny.Chava is a golem. a creature made of clay. brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles. in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master. the husband who commissioned her. dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.Ahmad is a djinni. a being of fire. born . in the ancient Syrian desert Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago. he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop Though he is no longer imprisoned. Ahmad is not entirely free -. an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world.The Golem & The Djinni is their magical. unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures - until the n...

The Golem and the Djinni

Wecker, Helene

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