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Atomised tells the story of two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions.

Author: Tim Pears
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 1997
Pages: 652
In a small town somewhere in the heart of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious and expansive industrialist Charles Freeman, it brings new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys the big house on the hill to cement their union and to nail his aspirations to the future.

Author: John Carbone 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 410

Stunning concept, totally engrossing read - a new generation of Mafia thriller is born. All Marco wants is to be a stand-up guy. To make his way in the world without too much trouble. Right? But in 1970s New York, that's not so easy.

Author: Fadia Faqir
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 285
In her village of Hima in the Levant, Salma, a young goat-herd, has violated the code of her Bedouin tribe by becoming pregnant before marriage. To restore their honour, the villagers set out to kill her. Now a runaway from the men of her tribe, Salma's days playing the pipe for her goats and swimming in the spring are over.

Author: Richard Yates 
Condition: 9/10
Published Date:  1962
Pages: 337

Hailed as a master piece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road, is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary.  With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decesion to change their lives for the better leads to bretrayal and tragedy.

Now A Major Motion Pitcure Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

Author: Christopher Reeve
Condition: 9/10
Published Date: 1998

An autobiography of the life of Christopher Reeve, the first ever Superman. How his life turned from the moment he fell off his horse in 1995, being paralyzed and how that never stopped him from making a difference, a man of steel without the Big "S" on his chest.

Author: Bryan Melessa 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 248
A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival. The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany as Die Flucht, or The Flight, when some 12 million Eastern European ethnic-Germans fled their ancestral homes to escape the advancing Soviet Army. '

Author: David Guterson 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 255
From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

Author: Jim Crace 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 309
From the incomparable Jim Crace, two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize and shortlist candidate for the Booker, comes his most accessible work to date. Rich in detail, sweeping in scope, The Pesthouse is at once an intimate story of characters whose lives have been uprooted, and a gripping story of danger and misadventure.

Author: Jonathon Coe 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 277

This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child. Called "the best English novelist of his generation" by Nick Hornby, Jonathan Coe extends his range in this magnificent account of a Shropshire family in the last half of the twentieth century.

Author: Michele Roberts 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 1999
Pages: 180
In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered. It is Mary Magdalene's account of Christ's teaching and her relationship with him, and it unveils a new Christianity which embraces the female equally with the male.