Borders Book Group
May 2008 Book Club
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The Story of ForgettingAt seventy, Abel Haggard is a hermit, resigned to memories of the family he has lost, living in isolation on his family's farm amid the encroaching suburban sprawl of Dallas. Hundreds of miles to the south in suburban Austin, fifteen-year-old Seth Waller is devastated when his mother is diagnosed with a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's, and he begins an 'empirical investigation' to uncover the truth about her genetic history. Read MoreExclusive Book Group Price£14.99£12.99
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In the CrowdAfter leaving her husband and their suffocating marriage for a new lover in Rome, the narrator of Heather McGowan's "Duchess of Nothing" has her freedom, but is still trapped by the routine of life and haunted by her past.... Read MoreExclusive Book Group Price£12.99£10.99
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Human SmokeAt a time when the West seems ever more eager to call on military aggression as a means of securing international peace, Nicholson Baker's provocative narrative exploring the political misjudgements and personal biases that gave birth to the terrifying consequences of the Second World War could not be more pertinent. With original and controversial insights brought about by meticulous research, Human Smoke re-evaluates the political turning points that led up to war and in so doing challenges some... Read MoreExclusive Book Group Price£20.00£16.00
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Alfred & EmilyThe first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War... Read MoreExclusive Book Group Price£16.99£12.99
