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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.’
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.
Armadillo Man
Julianne Pachico
‘The Armadillo Man is watching her. She gives him a good show – the best she has to offer.’
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.’
As if in Prayer
Steven Heighton
‘Many of the life vests were useless fakes, nylon shells that the human traffickers had stuffed with bubble wrap, boxboard, sawdust or rags.’
Asylum Road
Olivia Sudjic
‘She’d blinked at me kindly and said it must be sad when your country no longer exists, then returned to pulverising her asparagus.’
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.’