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Music critic Marcus Gray's exhaustive account of The Clash's most important album, London Calling.

A novel about the large role played by a small man in the largest invasion over mounted.

Twelve short stories from one of Scotland's greatest contemporary writers.

Although it begins as a detailed look at the polar bear and how it has been represented, On Thin Ice ends as an impassioned lament for a doomed species and its habitat.

Nick Hornby's funny/sad take on "all those lonely people" (as the Beatles once sang), in the age of the Internet.

A memoir about the late Kurt Vonnegut, from someone who knew him well and lovedhim dearly.

Tracing the real cost of the American obsession with all things cheap.

Attempting to leave his demons behind, an Edinburgh policeman findsredemption while on vacation in Miami.

The third volume in Denise Mina's popular detective series featuring journalist Paddy Meehan.

A novel of love's many failures affecting three generations of women, intricately and intimately told.

A young academic tries to find a place for herself in a new setting.

Grenville's timely novel revisits the British settlement of Australia and its consequencesfor settlers and natives alike.

A novel about personal and moral choices made against the backdrop of the Warsawghetto uprising.

More adventures of "the first generation raised without religion" from the author ofGeneration X and Microserfs.

This follow-up to The Rotters' Club examines Britain under Tony Blair.

A powerful and wonderfully understated historical novel set largely in 1919 Russia.

A dark murder mystery, and more, set in 1981 Glasgow, from one of Scotland's hottest writers.

Haunting, compassionate, and finely written, Remember Me may well prove the novel of the year, and more.

A highly accomplished debut novel of betrayal and redemption set in contemporaryAfghanistan.

Once again, Elizabethan McCracken writes a bittersweet novel in which the offbeat illuminates the everyday.

The thirteenth installment in the series of detective fictions by Scotland's most popular contemporary writer.

A well-researched history of the ways Americans have dealt with their trash from the colonial period to the present.

A collection of stories from the author of GRANTA magazine has rightly been judged one of Britain's best young fiction writers.

A bewitching, deceptively light tale of the reunified Germany.

Dale Peck's look at an American heartland driven by racism and homophobia is both brilliant and terrifying.

A fanciful and entertaining tale of Indian life from first-time novelist Kiran Desai.

DREAMER looks at the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, last years from an unusual and often compelling as well as thought-provoking perspective.

BRAIN STORM is a witty satire about the American mania for better living through legislation, litigation, and scientific innovation.

Esther Freud's formidable narrative skills are put to even more ambitious purpose in this novel, her third.

New poems and a generous sampling of old from one of America's most accomplished yet accessible poets.

Acclaimed writer Don DeLillo's look at Cold War, and post-Cold War dread, American-style.

Essays from one of the late, great American postmodernists.

In THE NEW LIFE, Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author of the highly acclaimed THE BLACK BOOK continues experimenting with "the greatest invention of Western culture," "this newfangled plaything called the novel."

Patrick McGrath's novel is an engaging and deeply penetrating study of sexual obsession, and something more besides.

At a time when Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's short, deceptively simple works have attracted so much attention, Anne Waldman's IOVIS reminds readers of poetry's other, "epic" side.

Former member Nori J. Muster offers an inside look into the Hare Krishnas.

Two-hundred and fifty-three poems have been selected from Andrei Codrescu's sixteen previous collections.

THE WORLD'S GAME provides a comprehensive if often underdeveloped history of modern soccer.

THE WINTER'S HERO is the concluding volume in a trilogy about life in Russia under Joseph Stalin.

THE POPE'S RHINOCEROS is the second historical fantasia by Lawrence Norfolk, a writer GRANTA magazine has rightly judged one of Great Britain's best young novelists.

Science fiction is the vehicle for trenchant social criticism in this novel by the author of WOMAN IN THE DUNES.

A Dublin woman recounts seventeen years of spousal abuse, explaining along the way how she came to marry such a man and survive to tell the tale.

Anthropology meets detective fiction/thriller in this witty academic treatise of a decidedly different, altogether hybrid kind.

Rushdie's novel is wonderfully funny yet strangely sad, a worthy successor to MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (1981) and THE SATANIC VERSES (1988).

THE TRIAL OF ELIZABETH CREE is Ackroyd's latest and arguably most entertaining, erudite, and teasingly enigmatic foray into his special brand of historical novel, postmodern-style.

In characteristically rich prose, Elkin tells the comically wayward yet strangely affecting story of a widow facing her declining years.

First published in Scotland in 1989, THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING is the story of a woman on the edge of madness.

The political issues and historical themes of Grossman's earlier books only seem less apparent in THE BOOK OF INTIMATE GRAMMAR, a flawlessly written and often funny but essentially meditative novel that deserves a place alongside two recent Booker Prize winners that also have young protagonists: Ben Okri's THE FAMISHED ROAD (1991) and Rodney Doyle's PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA (1993).

At a time when the word religion often connotes little more than sectarian narrowness and dogmatic assertiveness, A. G. Mojtabai's newest novel makes the point, gently yet effectively, that faith is a mystery rather than a matter of religious affiliation, as much a question as an answer.

Once again Carole Maso proves that high-wire fiction can be both narratively clever and emotionally compelling.