Fiction:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin, £7.99)
The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing (Harper Perennial, £7.99)
The Pure in Heart by Susan Hill, Vintage, £6.99
Making It Up by Penelope Lively (Penguin, £7.99)
The Children of Men by P .D.
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