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A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
Left after the death of his wife and one of his sons with an empty house and cupboards full of hoarded odds and ends that seem to have nothing to do with him, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his chair in the kitchen. But with admirable determination, he resolutely resumes old p ...Show more
A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
You don't need to have read Gerard Woodward's previous two novels, "August" and "I'll Go To Bed At Noon", to fall in love with this one, and its wonderfully fallible hero, Aldous Jones. Having hovered at the periphery of the previous books, Aldous comes into his own in the heartbreakingly funny story of ...Show more
August by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
Aldous Jones always takes his his family camping in Wales. He starts to see a symbiosis develop between their North London home and the Welsh village they only ever see in August. When the farm gets a milking parlour, the Jones get a new car. But Mrs Jones sees
Caravan Thieves by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
Most of these vivid and unsettling stories are rooted in apparently everyday lives and situations, but suddenly become surreal or disturbing - reading them feels sometimes as though you're walking along in the real world and suddenly step off an edge into a void, where rules of gravity and normality hav ...Show more
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine. Colette knows the solace a drink can provide, being partial t ...Show more
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in builders
Legoland by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author. Many of Legoland's stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land them in an unsettling place where life's normal rules no longer apply. Whether he's writing about a chil ...Show more
Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
This is the stunning new novel from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author. With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory - doing her bit for the war ef ...Show more
Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
The English are an unusual bunch: quirky and eccentric, often reserved and reticent, but always strong and resilient. Tory Pace, the heroine of this beautifully written and hilarious black comedy, is all of these things. Typically, she's trying to make the best of life in a difficult time: struggling, a ...Show more
The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
'Hugely enjoyable' John Boyne'Contemporary family drama at its most compelling, and with a brutally exquisite ending' Nathan Filer'I couldn't put it down till I was done' Nikita LalwaniArnold Proctor's quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and on ...Show more
The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
Category: Fiction
'Hugely enjoyable' John Boyne'Contemporary family drama at its most compelling, and with a brutally exquisite ending' Nathan Filer'I couldn't put it down till I was done' Nikita LalwaniArnold Proctor's quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and on ...Show more