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- The Fire-Eaters
David Almondstandalone novel2003
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The Fire-Eaters is a 2003 children's novel by David Almond.
- Starbridge (Howatch)
series6 books1987
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- Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwoodstandalone novel1988
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Cat's Eye is a 1988 novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood about fictional painter Elaine Risley, who vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories are of Cordelia, who was the leader of a trio of girls who were both very cruel and very kind to her in ways that tint Elaine's perceptions of relationships and her world — not to mention her art — into her middle years. The novel unfolds in mid-20th century Canada, from World War II to the late 1980s, and includes a look at many of the cultural elements of that time period, including feminism and various modern art movements. The book was a finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and for the 1989 Booker Prize.
- When Marnie Was There
Joan G. Robinsonstandalone novel1967
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When Marnie Was There is a novel by British author Joan G. Robinson, first published in 1967 by Collins. The story follows Anna, a young girl who temporarily moves to Norfolk to heal after becoming ill. There she meets a mysterious and headstrong girl named Marnie who lives in a house overlooking the marshes. They develop a secretive relationship they come to cherish. The novel explores themes of alienation, loneliness, and forgiveness in childhood. It received highly positive reviews, praised for its intensity of natural imagery, balance of humour with difficult themes, and emotional weight. The story was adapted to television in 1971 and radio in 2006. In 2014, it was adapted by Studio Ghibli as an animated film of the same name.
- Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnesstandalone novel1986
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Staring at The Sun is a 1986 novel by English writer Julian Barnes.
- Island
Aldous Huxleystandalone novel1962
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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
- Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdiestandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
- A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnettstandalone novel1905
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A Little Princess is a work by British-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, presented as a 1888 novella, a 1902 play and a 1905 children's novel. All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young girl and the prize student of a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to endure the life of a servant under the school's cruel headmistress.
- Utopia Avenue
David Mitchellstandalone novel2020
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Utopia Avenue is a 2020 novel by David Mitchell. It is his eighth published novel, and his first since Slade House (2015). It was published by Sceptre on 14 July 2020. The novel tells the story of the fictional 1960s British psychedelic rock band Utopia Avenue.
- Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammonstandalone novel1991
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Boy's Life is a 1991 novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert R. McCammon. It received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1992.
- The Green Mile
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1996
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The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism. The subsequent film adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".
- Fludd
Hilary Mantelstandalone novel1989
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Fludd is a novel by Hilary Mantel. First published by Viking Press in 1989, it won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize that year.
- Seventh Heaven
Alice Hoffmanstandalone novel1990
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Nora is ahead of her time. A single mother in 1950s suburbia, she's strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious. Everyone in town is touched by her, and in the mirror of her magnetism, people see themselves as never before. With Nora's courageous image before them, they begin to ask themselves questions they had never asked--finding answers they had never dared to imagine....
- Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters
Jean-Jacques Rousseaustandalone novel1761
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The love between Julie d'Étange and her private teacher St Preux, made impossible because of their relative stations, leads to a dead-end. Julie eventually marries old M. de Wolmar, who acquaints them with his Utopian estate, characteristic of the Age of enlightenment.
- Heaven Eyes
David Almondstandalone novel2000
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Heaven Eyes is a young adult novel by author David Almond. It was published in Great Britain by Hodder Children's Books in 2000 and by Delacorte Press in the United States in 2001. A paperback version was released in 2002 by Dell Laurel Leaf.
- The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevisstandalone novel1983
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The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit.
- Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1969
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Vonnegut opens in his own voice, describing the twenty years it took him to face writing about surviving the firebombing of Dresden as a POW. He then hands the story to Billy Pilgrim, an awkward, fatalistic American chaplain's assistant swept into the Battle of the Bulge and captured by German forces alongside a soldier who dies blaming him for it. Imprisoned in a disused slaughterhouse in Dresden, Billy survives the firebombing that follows, and, we're told upfront, has also come 'unstuck in time,' living his life out of order, including a stretch on the alien world of Tralfamadore. Vonnegut's best-known novel folds war memoir into science fiction and black comedy.
- Mother London
Michael Moorcockstandalone novel1988
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Mother London is a novel by Michael Moorcock. Published in 1988, it was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Although the city of London itself is perhaps the central character, it follows three outpatients from a mental hospital—a music hall artist, a reclusive writer and a woman just awoken from a long coma —who experience the history of the city from the Blitz to the late eighties through chaotic experience and sensory delusions. The novel is a non-chronological compilation of episodes, snippets and sidelines, rather than a single cohesive narrative. A piece in The Guardian called it 'a great, humane document'.
- Trouble with Lichen
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1960
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Biochemists Diana Brackley and Francis Saxover, working independently, both isolate a compound from a rare lichen that appears to dramatically slow the aging process. Francis quietly doses himself and his family and says nothing; Diana takes the opposite approach, opening exclusive beauty spas as cover to give the drug to well-connected women across Britain, reasoning that if longevity becomes known before women have a foothold, men will simply monopolize it as they have everything else. The secret can only hold so long, and the novel's tension builds toward the moment it gets out. A quietly subversive social science-fiction novel from John Wyndham.
- Tono-Bungay
H. G. Wellsstandalone novel1909
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Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and first published in book form in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book". It had been serialised before book publication, both in the United States, in The Popular Magazine, beginning in the issue of September 1908, and in Britain, in The English Review, beginning in the magazine's first issue in December 1908.
- The Irish Stories
series12 books1956
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Green Shadows, White Whale is Ray Bradbury's fictionalized account of the months he spent in Ireland in 1953-54 writing the Moby-Dick screenplay for director John Huston, blending memoir with short stories and vignettes he wrote about the country over the following decades. It stands as a single novel rather than a multi-book series, gathering material Bradbury considered the culmination of thirty-five years of Ireland-inspired writing. The title plays on Peter Viertel's Huston-focused White Hunter, Black Heart.
- Light Perpetual
Francis Spuffordstandalone novel2021
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The novel presents an alternate history of the possible lives of 5 children killed by a V2 rocket attack during WWII.
