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Solar by Ian McEwan
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen he ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year - as read on BBC Radio 4. 'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERS Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself w ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother. He was not here' When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earni ...Show more
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
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