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Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White
Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for
him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a
teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his
break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to
live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to
shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware
of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing
that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram
broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way
he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his
master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India,
both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless
villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore
and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person
confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its
subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical,
unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
In London, surgeon Carl Kleinhans faces a moral dilemma.
Should he perform a risky living donor liver transplant on a patient with a history of alcoholism? Especially when this patient is relying on his estranged Trinidadian son to be the donor? And what of Carl’s own dark past that is threatening to sink his relationship? Meanwhile, at Carl’s childhood home in South Africa, young Promise becomes aware of things spoken of in hushed tones.
A sweeping story of betrayal, secrets, hope and healing.
The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss by the international number one bestseller Lucinda Riley.
Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.
Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage – a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . . .
Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Époque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to allow her to accompany the family of a renowned architect on a trip to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.
The Seven Sisters is the first book in the spellbinding Seven Sisters series.
Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead.
Seven months after Dandelion’s death, Poppy resurrects her sister’s phone and finds a message from a man on a dating app. Jake.
Dandelion delighted in bad behaviour. She pushed Poppy to be daring. So, on what would have been her 40th birthday, Poppy decides to do something her sister would love, and – for one night only – she goes on a date as Dandelion.
Only when Poppy meets Jake, they have unexpected chemistry. Thrillingly hot, confusing chemistry. They become tangled in deceit while discovering something shockingly real. What happens when you fall in love with a lie?
As a precarious dare spirals somewhere altogether more unexpected, Dandelion is Dead becomes a love story, a ballad of sisterhood and an ode to bad behaviour.
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