By: Philip Roth/Jonathan Cape

On instructions from his father boy-next-door Marcus Messner quits college in Newark to begin his sophomore year at conservative Wines Burg College in Ohio. Why does he do so ? Simply because daddy dear worries about his son’s adult life! But soon enough, the thought of living with his parents. freaks Marcus out. So he Quits living with parents follows his heart and lands up back in Newark. Set in the backdrop of the Korean War Indignation explores the bizarre life of Marcus Messner, filled with intellectual resistance and sexual discovery.

HOT TIP: A gripping narrative that deals with religion politics and their impact on a normal life.

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By: Philippa Gregory/Touchstone

Aunique take on one of history’s most maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth’s promise of sanctuary when she flied from rebels in Scotland and found herself imprisoned as a ‘guest’ of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife bess of hardwick. The newly married couple thought that serving as her hosts and jailers would help them in the cutthroat Elizabethan court. To their horror they found that the task nearly bankrupted them and as their home became the epicenter of intrigue against Elizabeth their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign came into question. Will the great spymaster William Cecil link them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment? Either way they will all face the headsman!

HOT TIP: Suspense meets passion meets political intrigue!

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By: Heather O’Neill/Quercus

Baby, 13, is on the verge between childhood comforts and adult temptations-young enough to play with dolls old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit. Unfazed, as most kids are Baby cherishes the crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her blossoming beauty captures the attention of a charismatic local pimp-a volatile situation even the oblivious Jules cannot ignore. This is a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the streets-and the strength wits and luck necessary for survival. Read this!

HOT Tip: Hilarious yet heartrending; shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, 2008.

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