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  • Troubles

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Series series Empire Trilogy
    Winner of the Lost Man Booker PrizeA sad, tragic, and darkly funny “tour-de-force” about the Irish war for independence, set at a crumbling hotel on the western coast of Ireland (Guardian)1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Singapore Grip

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Series series Empire Trilogy
    Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Siege of Krishnapur

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Series series Empire Trilogy
    Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist.India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Empire Trilogy

    The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles, and The Singapore Grip

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    The Empire Trilogy--consisting of the Lost Booker Prize-winning Troubles, the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur,and The Singapore Grip--is Farrell's re-examination of the legacy, and limits, of British imperial rule. The three volumes, connected by theme rather than character, and above all by their shared wit, brio, and daring, range in setting from the India of the Great Mutiny of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Singapore Grip

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Mike Grady ...
    Series series Empire Trilogy

    Unabridged

    25 hours 20 min

    Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Siege Of Krishnapur

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Empire Trilogy: Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur, The Singapore Grip

    3 BBC Radio 4 productions

    by JG Farrell ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Robert Glenister, Alex Jennings, Jim Norton, Samantha Spiro, John Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 13 min

    BBC Radio 4 productions of JG Farrell's celebrated historical novels - plus bonus materialAcclaimed author JG Farrell came to fame with his Empire Trilogy, exploring the collapse of British colonialism and its repercussions in three different countries. The first book in the series, Troubles, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize, while the second, The Siege of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Troubles

    Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1970

    by J.G. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Kevin Hely ...
    Series series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    15 hours 44 min

    Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010.Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Anagrams

    A Novel

    by Lorrie Moore ...
    Narrated by Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    A revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fictionGerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Jewel in the Crown

    by Paul Scott ...
    Narrated by Richard Brown ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 41 min

    The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Offshore

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    Narrated by Alan Hollinghurst, Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEFEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUBPenelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Conservationist

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Mehring, a rich, powerful and vital industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer. But his possessions refuse to remain objects: his wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; and even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize ... Read more

    $16.95 USD