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Flashlight (Susan Choi)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author:Susan Choi Published: 2025 Pages: 464 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply On a summer night, 10-year-old Louisa and her father, […]

Flesh (David Szalay)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author:David Szalay Published: 2025 Pages: 368 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply Flesh follows István, a lonely Hungarian teen whose clandestine […]

The Land in Winter (Andrew Miller)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author:Andrew Miller Published: 2024 Pages: 384 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply In December 1962, in rural West Country, a desperate […]

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Kiran Desai)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author: Kiran Desai Published: 2025 Pages: 688 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny explores the […]

Audition (Katie Kitamura)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author: Katie Kitamura Published: 2024 Pages: 197 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply In Audition, an elegant actress and a much […]

The Rest of Our Lives (Ben Markovits)

24th September 2025 jng 0

Author:Ben Markovits Published: 2025 Pages: 256 Prize: Shortlist, Man Booker 2025 please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply When Tom Layward’s wife has an affair, he vows […]

Blackouts (Justin Torres)

2nd August 2024 jng 0

Author: Justin Torres Published: 2023 Pages: 306 Prize: National Book Award – Winner 2023 Project: Identity – sexual please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply In Blackouts a young […]

Study for Obedience (Sarah Bernstein)

22nd September 2023 jng 0

Study for Obedience Author: Sarah Bernstein Published: 2023 Pages: 208 Prizes: Recent Prize Short List (Shortlist, Man Booker 2023) please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply […]

This Other Eden (Paul Harding)

22nd September 2023 jng 0

Author: Paul Harding Published: 2023 Pages: 224 Prize: Recent Prize Short List (Shortlist, Man Booker 2023) please note that subscription libraries change over time; regional restrictions may apply In […]

Western Lane (Chetna Maroo)

22nd September 2023 jng 0

Author: Chatna Maroo Published: 2023 Pages: 160 Prize: Recent Prize Short List (Shortlist, Man Booker 2023) Project: Orpheus | fleeting nature of happiness | unaccepted death please note that subscription […]