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The promise

The promise [2021 Winner]
Galgut, Damon, 1963-
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Haunted by an unmet promisethe Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, who...

 

A passage north : a novel

A passage north : a novel [2021 Shortlist]
Arudpragasam, Anuk
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"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to cons...

 

No one is talking about this [Paperback]

No one is talking about this [Paperback] [2021 Shortlist]
Lockwood, Patricia
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As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with ...

 

The Fortune Men

The Fortune Men [2021 Shortlist]
Mohamed, Nadifa
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Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a mur...

 

Bewilderment [2021 Shortlist]
Powers, Richard
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans, but he is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare an...

 

Great circle [Paperback]

Great circle [Paperback] [2021 Shortlist]
Shipstead, Maggie
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From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust fo...

 

Second place

Second place [2021 Longlist]
Cusk, Rachel, 1967-
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"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

 

The sweetness of water [Paperback]

The sweetness of water [Paperback] [2021 Longlist]
Harris, Nathan
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In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, George Walker, a...

 

Klara and the sun [Paperback]

Klara and the sun [Paperback]  [2021 Longlist]
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-Bestseller September 2021 (Fiction)
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This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her...

 

An Island [2021 Longlist]
JenningsKaren
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A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the mainland: a life that saw his country suffer, then fight for independence, only to fall to a ...

 

A town called Solace [Paperback]

A town called Solace [Paperback] [2021 Longlist]
Lawson, Mary, 1946-
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"As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, ...

 

China room

China room [2021 Longlist]
Sahota, Sunjeev, 1981-
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1929. At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the 'chinaroom', heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which broth...

 

Light perpetual [Paperback]

Light perpetual [Paperback] [2021 Longlist]
SpuffordFrancis, 1964-
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Lunchtime, a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London has a new delivery of aluminium saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages - after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated.
 
 
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