Mike Leigh’s latest film, the story of a backstreet abortionist in 1950s England, won the prize for best film and actress at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and has people whispering about Oscar Nominations.
Screen adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, and Essie Davis. Directed by Peter Weber.
Helen Garner’s first novel in fifteen years concerns itself with a truly universal theme – death.
The story of a mixed-race family searching for identity in Northern England, told with spirit and skill by award-winning novelist Helen Walsh.
Mark Haddon describes it as “the bastard love child of The Matrix, Jaws and The DaVinci Code“, and Nicole Kidman was supposedly so taken by it that she asked the author to consider changing the protagonist’s gender for a film version.
An ambitious ‘novel of stories’ from Chuck Palahniuk, the American author of novels like Fight Club, Diary, and Choke.
The latest novel from Irish based American Kevin Stevens, author of Cops and Robbers and the Rizzoli Contract. Song for Katya is set against the backdrop of a pre-perestroika Soviet Union.
A collection of folk tales from Zimbabwe and Botswana, recounted by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
A novel set in a small, multi-cultural town during the violent dying days of the Ottoman Empire, written by English novelist, and author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières
A retelling of Humanity’s most famous disaster story, in this debut novel from American writer David Maine.
