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Little Bee (Paperback)
Chris Cleave
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The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off
British woman collide in this page-turning #1 "New York Times
"bestseller and book club favorite from Chris Cleave.
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly
special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need
to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny,
but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there,
but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most
important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone
about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either.
The magic is in how it unfolds.
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Gold (Paperback)
Chris Cleave
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IT'S THE ULTIMATE TEST OF A MOTHER'S LOVE . . .
IF your dreams pull you in one direction and your heart in another,
which should you follow? This is the question that haunts Kate
Meadows, a world champion athlete whose eight-year-old daughter
Sophie is battling a recurrence of childhood leukemia just as Kate
is about to compete for her last chance at an Olympic gold medal.
For years, Kate has sacrificed everything for her family and
watched her best friend and closest rival, Zoe Castle, conquer the
world stage. Kate has never won gold and will have to go through
Zoe--who has everything to lose--to get it. Now her child is facing
a life-threatening illness, and the stakes are higher than ever.
How can she do what is right for her daughter without abandoning
all of her dreams?
Winner of the 2017 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 'Ian McEwan did
this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and
Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A
compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT An extraordinary story of
love and honour in extreme circumstances, from the
multi-award-winning author of THE OTHER HAND. Instant New York
Times bestseller Evening Standard top ten bestseller iBooks BOOKS
OF THE YEAR 2016 Irish Times summer reading pick 'A cracker'
Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016 'His best book to date' Esquire,
10 best novels of 2016 Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016
Independent Best Book to read in 2016 Irish News Top Picks for 2016
Washington Post 20 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2016 In a
powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling
novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story,
through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to
understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is
the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs,
that change us most.
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Refugee Tales (Paperback)
Ali Smith, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chris Cleave, Marina Lewycka, Jade Amoli-Jackson, …
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Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an
overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway
across... A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers
'acting on a tip-off' and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years,
is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of
escape... An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery -
first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking - writes
to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail
sentence and indefinite detention... These are not fictions. Nor
are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the
frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its
refugees. While those with "citizenship" enjoy basic human rights
(like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14
days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in
Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the
stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain's
policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their
accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims'
stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare,
intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Costa Novel of
the Year, this international bestseller has become a reading group
classic. We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is
a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless,
you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is
extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story
starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens
afterwards that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll
want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them
what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
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Incendiary (Paperback)
Chris Cleave
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You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect
mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one
won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but
my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never
break, and it means you're stronger than the things they do to you.
I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the
proof that love survives. I am not a perfect mother but I will tell
you the perfect truth, because this is you and me talking. This is
my story.
The extraordinary third novel from Chris Cleave, author of the
internationally bestselling, Costa-shortlisted THE OTHER HAND. Kate
and Zoe are friends but also ardent rivals - athletes at the top of
their game, fighting to compete in the world's greatest sporting
contest. Each scarred by tragedy, and each with a great deal to
lose, they must choose between family and glory and ask themselves:
what will I sacrifice? GOLD captures the extraordinary effort and
dedication that go into the pursuit of victory. But this
life-affirming novel is about more than sport. It is about human
endurance, motherhood and love, and what enables us all, in our
different ways, to achieve the remarkable. It is a story told as
only Chris Cleave could tell it. And once you begin, it will be a
heart-pounding race to the finish.
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