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Fasting, Feasting

9780099289630
Anita Desai
From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.
€11.10

Fly Away Peter

9780099273820
David Malouf
It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape that could accommodate a good deal. For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study.
€9.86

Lamb

9780099284598
Bernard MacLaverty
On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the Brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he runs away, taking a 12-year-old boy with him.
€9.86

Lies of Silence

9780099998105
Brian Moore
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesnt, his wife will be killed.
€11.10

My Left Foot

9780749391775
Christy Brown
Recounts the authors childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.
€11.10

No Great Mischief

9780099283928
Alistair MacLeod
Alexander MacDonald tells the story of his family from the vantage point of the 1980s. In 1779, driven from his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands for Canada. Reaching the land of trees, he settles his extensive family until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan.
€11.10

Out Stealing Horses

9780099506133
Per Petterson
In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friends feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his fathers decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.
€11.10

Panther in the Basement

9780099754015
Amos Oz
Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons.
€11.10
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