Adrian Mole: The Prostate Years by Sue Townsend
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Sue Townsend is a British author and playwright whose Adrian Mole series has had a large following in the UK for more than 20 years.
Modern Literary Fiction
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, William Trevor has published fourteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
JODI PICOULT is the author of seventeen novels, including Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister's Keeper, now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com.
Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart by Matthias Malzieu
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
In addition to being an author, Matthias Malzieu is the lead singer of the French rock band Dionysos. This is his third novel, and the first to be translated into English. Born in 1974 in Montpellier, he now lives in Paris.
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Paolo Giordano won Italy's prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega, for The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his debut novel. Just twenty-seven years old, he is a professional physicist and is currently working on a doctorate in particle physics.