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Read the first chapter of Orange Prize-shortlisted Black Water Rising

By Serpents Tail on April 22, 2010

Enjoy Chapter One of Orange Prize for Fiction-shortlisted thriller Black Water Rising by Attica Locke – big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with attorney Jay Porter.

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Barbara Kingsolver on The Lacuna

By Faber on November 16, 2009

Barbara Kingsolver wasn’t able to come to the UK for publication of her spellbinding new novel The Lacuna (though she hope to visit in 2010), so Faber did the next best thing – went to her with their questions.

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Read an extract from Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

By Simon & Schuster UK on October 19, 2009

A debut novel based on the extraordinary life of Jeannette Walls’ maternal grandmother – a sassy, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker are all in a day’s work.

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Andrew Sean Greer on The Story of a Marriage

By Faber on June 3, 2009

Set in 1950s San Francisco, The Story of a Marriage is Andrew Sean Greer’s sensual, heartbreaking love story about how you can never truly know the ones you love.

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