'Although these characters are imperfect, you'll fall in love with them anyway and you'll want to know how they turn out once the end of the book is reached.' (LB) 'What is impressive about the work is that it treats rich people as fallible human beings,' says Medium. One was born into the wealth, one has married into it, and one wants to give it away.

The debut novel by Jenny Jackson explores generational wealth and privilege in forensic detail, following three women who are part of the super-wealthy Stockton clan, in leafy Brooklyn Heights, New York. 'Marvellous – clever, funny and brilliantly well observed,' is how India Knight describes Pineapple Street in The Sunday Times. Shy is Porter's best, says The Telegraph, since his acclaimed 2015 debut, Grief is a Thing with Feathers, 'an act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.' According to the iNewspaper, it is 'a dazzling bolt of prose in the long night of our times'. Its hero is 15-year-old Shy, who we encounter as he walks away from Last Chance, a home for troubled youth, with his pockets full of rocks. (LB)įrom the author of Lanny (2019) and The Death of Francis Bacon (2021), Porter's fourth book is another slight volume of experimental, poetic prose. 'Her characters are deeply flawed but you can't help but root for them.' The Guardian praises Catton as a 'novelist of lavish technical gifts who addresses herself to the world, broadly and richly conceived.' Birnam Wood is, says the review, 'another virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable'.

'Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, ' says. Eco-activism meets staggering affluence when the young members of an environmental rights group end up being entangled with a billionaire drone manufacturer. (RL)Įleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel The Luminaries, and the New Zealand author's latest offering, witty thriller Birnam Wood, has also been highly acclaimed. In this novel, Rushdie has created 'an alternative Mahabharata', writes The Guardian, 'an elaborate founding myth from the bare bones of history'. Kampana's fortune, over centuries, becomes interwoven with that of the great empire of Bisnaga, the 'victory city' of the title. Its heroine is a grief-stricken nine-year-old girl, Pampa Kampana, who is instructed by a goddess to create equality for women in a patriarchal world. The 15th novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and Quichotte, Victory City, described by The New Yorker as 'immensely enjoyable', is an era-spanning epic that begins in 14th-Century southern India.

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