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Antics

Clive Sinclair

'My nubile companion, assuredly no intellectual, continued to masturbate in front of me.'

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Anubis

Paul Murray

‘Here in space you don't often get the chance to meet women.’

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Anwar Gets Everything

Tahmima Anam

‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’

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Apnoea

Daniel Galera

‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.

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Apples

David Guterson

‘He remembered the new, fresh, orchard country of his youth and the rows of apple trees his father had planted on the east bank of the Columbia River.’

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Aquifer

Tim Winton

‘Through the open window I smelt dead lupin and for a long time forgot my age.’

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Araben

Pooneh Rohi

‘Like all roads, this one too comes to an end.’ A Swedish novel that looks at the realities of the immigrant experience.

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Arcadia

Emma Cline

‘Could a place work on you like an illness?’

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Ardor (Aghast)

Anne Carson

‘I taught you what you know, I never taught you what I know.’

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Arithmetic Town

Todd McEwen

‘Free play is when you have fun instead of playing kickball.’

Armadillo Man

Julianne Pachico

‘The Armadillo Man is watching her. She gives him a good show – the best she has to offer.’

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Arrivals

Sunjeev Sahota

‘But he couldn’t lose the sense that this was a turning point in his life, that she’d been delivered to him for a reason.’

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Asymmetry

Lisa Halliday

An excerpt from Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry

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At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers

Salman Rushdie

‘The bidders who have assembled for the auction of the magic slippers bear little resemblance to your usual saleroom.’