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This story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and as his countrys Robin Hood.

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloveds affections.

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Larrys Party, winner of the Orange Prize.

Intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class.

A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her fathers throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.

The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of The Magicians Assistant, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction ... Toibin has crafted an unmissable read Sunday Herald

A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.

* An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax.

A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Aspergers syndrome. When he finds a neighbours dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.