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|summary= China is a booming economy for people in a position to take advantage; people like Gary the pop star who once won a talent show, Yinghui the lingerie magnate or her childhood friend and property developer Justin who feels the weight of his family's expectations.  Then there's Phoebe, moving to Shanghai from the country on a promise and a belief that to attract success one must act as if one already has it.  Life will bring them into each other's orbit but it won't leave any of them the same as when they started.
 
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|summary=As harvest comes in, a village finds itself under threat. Invaded by a series of unfamiliar visitors, it will find itself utterly transformed over a short but apocalyptic seven days. We watch through the eyes of Walter Thirsk as three vagabonds escaping the enclosure of their fields are blamed for the trangressions of others, as the chartmaker Mr Quill enumerates the common land, and as Master Kent's benevolent rule is overtaken by a new owner, who comes with enforcers in the name of ''profit, progress and enterprise'' - or sheep farming as Walter quickly realises.
 
|summary=As harvest comes in, a village finds itself under threat. Invaded by a series of unfamiliar visitors, it will find itself utterly transformed over a short but apocalyptic seven days. We watch through the eyes of Walter Thirsk as three vagabonds escaping the enclosure of their fields are blamed for the trangressions of others, as the chartmaker Mr Quill enumerates the common land, and as Master Kent's benevolent rule is overtaken by a new owner, who comes with enforcers in the name of ''profit, progress and enterprise'' - or sheep farming as Walter quickly realises.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330445669</amazonuk>
 
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|author=Jhumpa Lahiri
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|title=The Lowland
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|rating=4.5
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|genre=Literary Fiction
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|summary= Subhash and Udayan Mitra are brothers growing up in an India growing into its post-independence status.  Subhash goes along with Udayan's ideas but it's Udayan who's the radical, fighting against the injustices of an elitism that remains once the British have left India.  Eventually they go their separate ways, one studying abroad to avoid conflict and the other becoming more deeply embroiled.  Life can't go on like this forever and it doesn't but the reverberations seem to, affecting generation after generation as Subhash realises that the search for peace isn't always an external thing.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828111</amazonuk>
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|author=Ruth Ozeki
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|title=A Tale for the Time Being
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|rating=Unreviewed
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|genre=Literary Fiction
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|summary=We're waiting for a review of this book.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857867970</amazonuk>
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|author=Colm Toibin
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|title=The Testament of Mary
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|rating=3.5
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|genre=Historical Fiction
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|summary= The subject matter for Colm Tóibín's ''The Testament of Mary'' is exactly what the title suggests in that it relates Mary's feelings about the death of her son, Jesus, whose name it hurts her too much to even mention. It's a curiously slight offering though. Its 100 odd pages lands it somewhere between short story and novella territory. Even so, with Tóibín's excellence as a writer and the emotive subject matter, I expected to be more engaged with the story than I was.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670922099</amazonuk>
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'''OTHER BOOKS ON THE LONGLIST'''
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|author=Tash Aw
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|title=Five Star Billionaire
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|rating=4
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|genre=Literary Fiction
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|summary= China is a booming economy for people in a position to take advantage; people like Gary the pop star who once won a talent show, Yinghui the lingerie magnate or her childhood friend and property developer Justin who feels the weight of his family's expectations.  Then there's Phoebe, moving to Shanghai from the country on a promise and a belief that to attract success one must act as if one already has it.  Life will bring them into each other's orbit but it won't leave any of them the same as when they started.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007494157</amazonuk>
 
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|summary= Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills is a collection of four related books, originally published in e-book format between February and June 2013. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for House's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money, murder, greed, stories and where things start and equally where, if ever, they end. Covering more countries than feature in Michael Palin's passport, the book starts with corruption and embezzlement in a US civilian company working in the re-building of Iraq, and ends with a kind of 'Tales of the Unexpected' story in Cyprus having taken in a gruesome story of murder in Naples.
 
|summary= Richard House's Booker-longlisted The Kills is a collection of four related books, originally published in e-book format between February and June 2013. In some ways, the e-book format is the natural habitat for House's creation as it includes a largely optional multi-media component to the story. It is a hugely ambitious piece about money, murder, greed, stories and where things start and equally where, if ever, they end. Covering more countries than feature in Michael Palin's passport, the book starts with corruption and embezzlement in a US civilian company working in the re-building of Iraq, and ends with a kind of 'Tales of the Unexpected' story in Cyprus having taken in a gruesome story of murder in Naples.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447237862</amazonuk>
 
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|author=Jhumpa Lahiri
 
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|title=The Lowland
 
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|rating=4.5
 
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|genre=Literary Fiction
 
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|summary= Subhash and Udayan Mitra are brothers growing up in an India growing into its post-independence status.  Subhash goes along with Udayan's ideas but it's Udayan who's the radical, fighting against the injustices of an elitism that remains once the British have left India.  Eventually they go their separate ways, one studying abroad to avoid conflict and the other becoming more deeply embroiled.  Life can't go on like this forever and it doesn't but the reverberations seem to, affecting generation after generation as Subhash realises that the search for peace isn't always an external thing.
 
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|summary= In the late nineteen eighties sixteen year old Marina is a border at Combe school, destined - as she and all about her know - for Cambridge and the medical profession.  After her first term she’s wonders if she’s made a mistake as it’s definitely not like it was at Ealing Girls.  There, a girl whose mother is emotionally fragile doesn’t stand out, even if the mother gets to sleep on the sofa in her in-laws’ flat because their son - her husband - upped and left her and their daughter.  You would still fit in even if the family you’re living with is Hungarian and hasn’t entirely left the ways of the old country behind.  At Combe there’s too much about Marina that she could be mocked for - or could get her a cruel nickname.  Marina simply doesn’t fit in, but the family have sacrificed everything so that she can go there.
 
|summary= In the late nineteen eighties sixteen year old Marina is a border at Combe school, destined - as she and all about her know - for Cambridge and the medical profession.  After her first term she’s wonders if she’s made a mistake as it’s definitely not like it was at Ealing Girls.  There, a girl whose mother is emotionally fragile doesn’t stand out, even if the mother gets to sleep on the sofa in her in-laws’ flat because their son - her husband - upped and left her and their daughter.  You would still fit in even if the family you’re living with is Hungarian and hasn’t entirely left the ways of the old country behind.  At Combe there’s too much about Marina that she could be mocked for - or could get her a cruel nickname.  Marina simply doesn’t fit in, but the family have sacrificed everything so that she can go there.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721997X</amazonuk>
 
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|author=Ruth Ozeki
 
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|rating=Unreviewed
 
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|summary= The subject matter for Colm Tóibín's ''The Testament of Mary'' is exactly what the title suggests in that it relates Mary's feelings about the death of her son, Jesus, whose name it hurts her too much to even mention. It's a curiously slight offering though. Its 100 odd pages lands it somewhere between short story and novella territory. Even so, with Tóibín's excellence as a writer and the emotive subject matter, I expected to be more engaged with the story than I was.
 
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