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Little Children

Tom Perrotta

Beneath the placid surface of suburbia, the adults are kicking their toys out of their pram... In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways... There's Mary Ann, a supe...
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Harder They Fall, The

Budd Schulberg

He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don’t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be playwright, never expected to make his living writing lies. But that's precisely what he does to pay his ren...
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Disenchanted, The

Budd Schulberg

Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s — a golden figure in a golden age — who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living ...
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Get Carter

Ted Lewis

The original novel of the classic cult film starring Sir Michael Caine. Doncaster train station, and Jack Carter is heading home for a funeral - his brother Frank's. Frank had been found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Now, Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he la...
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Basic Eight, The

Daniel Handler

In their affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp's group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan they are indispensable. She needs Kate, despite her incessant gossiping. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a barely requited crush on her. She needs V...
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