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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where Jack is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where she has been held for seven years.

"Donoghue brings her story to a powerful close that feels exactly right. This is a truly memorable novel...It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love." - New York Times Book Review

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Kathy's Pick.

One of the most acclaimed books of the year, Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome.

Asha's pick

"The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet-not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds, which are all one world, which is, in turn, enchanted by Mitchell's spell-caster prose, our own." -Michael Chabon

Asha's pick

A light, funny read where Chet, the canine narrator, helps his down-on-his-luck boss solve the mystery. The first of a new, irresistable series.

 A Kathy Pick!