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The Big Music
Kirsty Gunn - Paperback - Faber and Faber
John Sutherland is dying, whilst creating a musical composition that will define the Grey House. He has little idea of how his tune will echo or play in the world and as the story progresses, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge with those around him.
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The Bridge
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
A man lies in a coma, his body broken, his memory vanished. He finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge - a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future, fuse.
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The Business
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
Iain Banks' new novel marks a return to the contemporary world. It combines the dark wit of 'Complicity' with the imaginative power of 'Espedair Street'. A breathless adventure story, it never ignores the injustices and moral conundrums of the real world.
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Dead Air
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
In a loft apartment in the East End of London they're dropping fruit from a balcony at a wedding breakfast. Soon things get out of hand and they're dropping TV sets out. Then the phone rings and they're told to turn on the TV. It's September 11th 2001.
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Espedair Street
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
Danny used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At 31, he realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.
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The Girls Of Slender Means
Muriel Spark - Paperback - Viking
In a Kensington hostel towards the end of World War 2, a group of well-bred, but impecunious young women, are leading lives of ritual femininity. All is well until their interlude of innocence is destroyed by the horror of the times.
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The Girl Who Was Thursday
Alexander McCall Smith - Paperback - Abacus
This novel tells the story of an obsessive love that starts in childhood and persists into adulthood. As a small girl growing up on Grand Cayman, Thursday befriends the son of her parents' friends - Hugh. He's good at everything, a sunny-natured boy who charms all he meets, and Thursday is dazzled by him.
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Havisham: A Novel
Ronald Frame - Paperback - Faber and Faber
Catherine Havisham was born into privilege. Handsome, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer, and lives in luxury in Satis House. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall - Havisham. A reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business.
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San Carlos
Neil Forsyth - Paperback - Vintage Books
It is 1989 and under the searing heat of the Ibizan sun two people look for answers amongst the throng of the island's holiday-makers. Over the course of a week the lives of these two strangers are pulled together with explosive consequences.
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Transition
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable assassin; Adrian Cubbish, restlessly greedy City trader; and the Philosopher, a state-sponsored torturer who moves between the time zones with sinister ease.
The Big Music
The Bridge
The Business
Dead Air
Espedair Street
The Girls Of Slender Means
The Girl Who Was Thursday
Havisham: A Novel
San Carlos
Transition
