These Dark Wings
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After her mother is killed in the Blitz and her father in the North Sea, 12-year-old Anna Cooper is...
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
Charles Portis and Jay Jennings
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Collected here in Escape Velocity is Charles Portis's 'miscellany' - journalism, short fiction,...
A Summer of Drowning
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A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Her only friend is...
The Dream Woman
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When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight...
The Little Stranger
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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds...
The Offering
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It was the year when Madeline's family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to....
Hollowpoint
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There was a time when Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti pursued his job with vigour and a...
Echoland
Don Bartlett and Per Petterson
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Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark....
Eva Luna (English translation)
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'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in...
When We Were Animals
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Nobody knew why, but when the boys and girls reached a certain age the parents locked themselves up...