Dirt Music by Tim Winton
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God's elect. Passionate, headstrong and shielded by her mother's grand disapproval of a sinful world, she seems destined for life as a missionary. And then she meets Melanie. At sixtee ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she l ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishnes ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Dalai Lama's Cat Ser.
"'Oh How adorable I didn't know you had a cat ' she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?'If only she could speak, ' continued the actress. 'I'm sure she'd have such wisdom to share.'And so the seed was planted . . .I began to thin ...Show more
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, th ...Show more
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love.'Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter? ...Show more
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, ...Show more
After You (Me Before You #2) by Jojo Moyes
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good
Jojo's new book, Still Me, the next book featuring Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You, is available now "We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it's not always happy, there is an ever after." --Miami Herald"You're going to feel u ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more