The Street Sweeper: Elliot Perlman
On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day ... only some of these stories survive to become history.
Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past.
Meanwhile Adam Zignelik, the son of a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer, is facing a personal crisis: almost 40-years-old, his long-term relationship is faltering and his academic career has stalled. It's only when one of his late father's closest friends, the civil rights activist William McCray, suggests a promising research topic that the possibility of some kind of redemption arises.
Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, The Street Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from New York to Melbourne, Chicago, Warsaw and Auschwitz, as these two very different paths - Adam's and Lamont's - lead to one greater story. More
Send War in Our Time, O Lord: C. J. Driver
Following the death of her husband Terry, Mrs Allen takes the vacant post of Matron at the Settlement of St Joseph, founded in the nineteenth century by his grandfather Timothy ... More
Collected Novels Volume 1: Paul Auster
After years spent as a struggling translator and poet, Paul Auster published his first works of fiction in the mid 1980s - City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, ... More
The Character of Rain: Amelie Nothomb
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the ... More
In Praise of the Stepmother: Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence. More
Tokyo Year Zero: David Peace
The first part of Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy' sees him blend fact and fiction as he explores a shattered national psyche forced to face up to its very worst fears. More
Report to Greco: Nikos Kazantzakis
A Sweet Scent of Death: Guillermo Arriaga
The killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village ignites a powder-trail of gossip that erupts in further violence, in this suspenseful tale from the writer of the ... More
A Visible Darkness: Michael Gregorio
The gripping new thriller from the author of Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement, set amongst the amber harvests on Prussia's Baltic coast.
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A Certain Justice: P. D. James
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in ... More
To the Victors the Spoils: Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes was a sergeant in a Field Security detachment in the Second World War. In this imaginative record of actual experiences he describes the progress of his detachment through ... More
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