Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize
Zadie Smith
When Jerome, the eldest son of long-suffering professor Howard Belsey,
falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty
Kipps, it sets in motion a chain of events that sees both families
forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their
lives. Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family
life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and
political, and an honest look at people's deceptions.
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Audrey Niffenegger
This is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare
was six and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was
22 and Henry 30. Impossible but true, because Henry is one
of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder:
periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled
suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous
and his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing. The Time
Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's
passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to
lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor
control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
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Lynne Truss
It’s tough being a stickler for punctuation these days. It seems as if our punctuation system has become an endangered species. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it.
From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to
Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma"; from George Orwell shunning the semicolon to Peter Cook saying Nevile Shute's three dots made him feel all funny", this book makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
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J.K. Rowling
The war against Voldemort is not going well. And yet, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. It's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort - and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.
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