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Immerse yourself in controversial, intense and engrossing fiction this autumn... 
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
 ‘There are many stories here. The book is elaborate to bursting point, but always controlled, always whole. It is as juicy and satisfying as a shiny apple, its taste both strange and familiar, compassionate and bitter.’ The Times
Come to Cairo, visit The Yacoubian Building, a once grand, but now dilapidated place which houses a whole melange of complex and intriguing individuals. Where bribery, corruption and controversy are strife and where a young doorman’s son has aspirations beyond the slums in the skies. But his dreams are about to come crashing down around him... and his reaction will result in devastating consequences...
Intense and incredibly powerful for the past four years, The Yacoubian Building has been the bestselling novel in the Arab world –discover why. We have a fantastic reading guide to sample and copies for you to win!
Grievance by Marguerite Alexander
 The brutality of social shame…
Nora Doyle, a young Irish girl has left her family and come to London in search of friends and caring adults – something her former life lacked. Once, long ago, the promise of a loving and idyllic childhood beckoned and then her brother was born with Downs syndrome...and everything fell apart. Nora remembers the love she gave her brother but Nora can not forget the cruelty of her bullying father and the resentment of her crushed, self-pitying mother. Now all she wants is a new life...but too late she realises that you can escape your family, but you cannot always escape your upbringing...
Sensitive, lyrical and beautifully written Grievance will stir you to the core. Enter our competition to win special signed copies from the author and get discussing with our latest reading guide. PLUS check out this brilliant article!
Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
 The heart of ‘black’ and ‘white’ America...
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift – a 19 year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college – her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event.
What is the real truth? Was her death a result of a vicious racial attack? Or is the answer far more shocking?
A gripping and controversial novel, Joyce Carol Oates explores black and white America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War and the ignominious exposure and fall of president Nixon...read it for yourself! We have copies for you to win and a fantastic reading guide.
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