Paul AUSTER
The Book of illusions
Faber and Faber
ANG R AUS
This novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic and the real and the imagined dissolve into one another. One man’s obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions and unexpected love.

Stephen BOOTH
Blood on the tongue
Harper Collins
ANG RP BOO
Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Peak District winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Black Dog.

T.Coraghessan BOYLE
Drop city
Bloomsbury
ANG R BOY
Star has travelled to Drop City - 47 acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society’s constraints and to feel part of something important. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she discovers tensions and rivalries that threaten to split the community.

Theresa BRESLIN
Whispers in the graveyard
Mammoth
ANG SF BRE
Solomon is full of anger with the teachers and his father, with his mother who has left him and with himself. He cannot bear to be at home or at school. His refuge is one corner of the kirkyard, where nothing lives but a rowan tree.

Anita BROOKNER
The Best big thing
Penguin
ANG R BRO
Herz wondered if the people he passed on the street ruminated on lost causes, as he did. Try as he might to divert himself, he could never escape the suspicion that he should be elsewhere. Herz is seventy-three and he must do something with the time left , but what ? Anita Brookner’s masterpiece - the ultimate comedy about what it really means to be old.