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Corker's Freedom (Vintage In...John Berger

This is the new edition of Booker prize winning author’s classic third novel.

Corker’s Freedom (Vintage International)
John Berger
Vintage , English
 

Art and Activism in Arundhar...Shibu Simon

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Roy ventured into the realm of art with her debut novel The God of Small Things. She brought laurels to the country by winning the coveted Booker Prize in 1997 when India celebrated her 50th anniversary of Independence. Roy is the first non… more

Art and Activism in Arundhari Roy:A Critical Study based on Spivak’s Theory of Subalternity
Shibu Simon
English
 

Once in EuropaJohn Berger

A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. Th… more

Once in Europa
John Berger
Vintage , English
 

The People's Act of LoveJames Meek

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing… more

The People’s Act of Love
James Meek
Canongate Books , English
 

Pig Earth (Vintage International)John Berger

With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of ske… more

Pig Earth (Vintage International)
John Berger
Vintage , English
 

Life of PiYann Martel

WINNER OF THE 2002 BOOKER PRIZE After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-ut… more

Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Canongate Pub Ltd , English
 

Bullfighting: StoriesRoddy Doyle

[No one] can match Doyle for the fluency with which he tacks back and forth between the hilarious and the heartbreaking.” —The New York Times Book ReviewRoddy Doyle has won acclaim for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his remarkable abili… more

Bullfighting: Stories
Roddy Doyle
Penguin Books , English
 

The Red Cockatoo: James Kelm...Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger

The Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author’s political commitments and activism throughout his career. This book is published in partnership with The Drouth Magazine and… more

The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the art of commitment
Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger
Sandstone Press , English
 

The Siege of Krishnapur (New...J.G. Farrell

Winner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely co… more

The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
J.G. Farrell
NYRB Classics , English
 

G.: A Novel (Vintage International)John Berger

In this luminous novel — winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berg… more

G.: A Novel (Vintage International)
John Berger
Vintage , English
 

The Torture Garden (with an ...Octave Mirbeau

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Novelist and critic Tom McCarthy, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘C’, introduces Octave Mirbeau’s classic ‘The Torture Garden’.Once described as “the most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century”, Mirbeau’s sensual and disturbin… more

The Torture Garden (with an introduction by Tom McCarthy)
Octave Mirbeau
Bookkake , English
 

Mezzaterra: Fragments from t...Ahdaf Soueif

From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love–an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.The twe… more

Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground
Ahdaf Soueif
Anchor , English
 

Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie...Peter Carey

The Booker Prize-winning novel—now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight  Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in  nineteenth-century Australia. For… more

Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage International)
Peter Carey
Vintage , English
 

Instant in the WindAndre Brink

The year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mothe… more

Instant in the Wind
Andre Brink
Sourcebooks Landmark , English
 

Vintage ByattA.S. Byatt

Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays… more

Vintage Byatt
A.S. Byatt
Vintage , English
 

The Line of BeautyAlan Hollinghurst

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One can’t get enough of Hollinghurst’s sentences…If you value style, wit, and social satire in your reading, don’t miss this elegant and passionate novel.”—Washington Post Winner of 2004’s Man Booker Prize for fiction and one of the most… more

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Bloomsbury USA , English
 

The Cost of Living (Modern L...Arundhati Roy

From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government’sdisregard for the individual.In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassiona… more

The Cost of Living (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Arundhati Roy
Modern Library , English
 

A House UnlockedPenelope Lively

In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object,… more

A House Unlocked
Penelope Lively
Grove Press , English
 

The Unusual Life of Tristan ...Peter Carey

The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world’s byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains… more

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (Vintage International)
Peter Carey
Vintage , English
 

Ragnarok: The End of the God...A.S. Byatt

Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the en… more

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myths)
A.S. Byatt
Grove Press , English