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In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake…
The Rapture has been featured on The TV Book Club on More4. Watch the programme again online here.
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In fin-de-siècle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets – including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive...
‘Unashamedly gleeful: a kind of topsy-turvy Jane Eyre with added time travel … Sit back, suspend your disbelief, and enjoy’ Daily Mail
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Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly accident-prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. A shocking, heartbreaking novel about what the human heart can inflict and the mind can endure.
'Emotionally compelling, morally fascinating and slightly appalling … The result is breathtaking.’ Independent on Sunday
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Gloria worked in a munitions factory during the Blitz, but still found time to grab whatever she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war made Gloria do all sorts of things she wouldn’t normally do, because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might….now, fifty years on. Gloria is forced to confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic Home Front story.
'Breathtakingly coarse, wryly amusing and gut-wrenchingly tragic' Marie Claire |
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The whole world is beginning to fall in love with Atlantica. Miles from anywhere, the man-made island is a true twenty-first century vision. With a thriving economy based on global waste disposal and an infrastructure run by advanced software, politician-free Atlantica is the envy of other nations and a consumer paradise. But even Utopia has its outcasts...
‘Sparkling…sharp, funny and richly imagined, this is as timely a warning about rampant consumerism as Orwell’s 1984 was about state control’ – Sunday Express
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Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate ‘children’ and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative – or from the sexual pull of the luscious twins Rose and Blanche...
‘Superb … a complex, intelligent novel which draws upon a vast array of ideas without ever losing coherence … magnificently crowded, wonderfully funny fiction' Daily Telegraph
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Moira Sugden and her daughters Hazel and Linda are disunited by the self-inflicted wounds of family, and cornered by sex, God and medication into varying states of delusion. But when Hazel makes frightening discoveries about her husband’s scientific mission to create the Perfect Baby, they join forces - with painfully hilarious results…
‘An assured, hilarious and insightful novel ... propelled along by the comic rhythm of the writing, you’re carried on a crazy journey you won’t be sorry you took’ Time Out
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