— Commonwealth Writers' Prize 21 Titles found
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Purple Hibiscus
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
Black Bird
Written by Michel Basilieres
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
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Written by Michel Basilieres
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
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The Solitude of Emperors
Written by David Davidar
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $17.95
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Written by David Davidar
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $17.95
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up... Read more >
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.00
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up... Read more >
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.
Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury... Read more >
Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.
Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury... Read more >
The Macken Charm
Written by Jack Hodgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2000
Price: $14.95
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Written by Jack Hodgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2000
Price: $14.95
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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $12.00
2008 ALEX Award Winner (Young Adult Library Services Association)
2008 Best Books for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association)
Commonwealth Writer's Prize Winner
Booker Prize Finalist
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power... Read more >
Written by Lloyd Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $12.00
2008 ALEX Award Winner (Young Adult Library Services Association)
2008 Best Books for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association)
Commonwealth Writer's Prize Winner
Booker Prize Finalist
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Unaccustomed Earth
Stories
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons... Read more >
Stories
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons... Read more >
The Great World
A novel
Written by David Malouf
Format: Trade Paperback, 340 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $17.00
The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during W.W.II: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For... Read more >
A novel
Written by David Malouf
Format: Trade Paperback, 340 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $17.00
The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during W.W.II: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For... Read more >
In the Country of Men
Written by Hisham Matar
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $12.00
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Europe and South Asia
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2006 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business except that he is sure that... Read more >
Written by Hisham Matar
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $12.00
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Europe and South Asia
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2006 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business except that he is sure that... Read more >
In the Country of Men
Written by Hisham Matar
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $22.00
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2006 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business except that he is sure that he has just seen him, standing... Read more >
Written by Hisham Matar
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $22.00
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2006 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business except that he is sure that he has just seen him, standing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Atonement
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2003
Price: $14.95
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2003
Price: $14.95
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis... Read more >
Runaway
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.00
The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Perfect Man
A Novel
Written by Naeem Murr
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $13.95
Winner of the 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia
2007 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students
Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Naeem Murr
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $13.95
Winner of the 2008 PEN/Beyond Margins Award
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia
2007 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students
Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Dancing in the Dark
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874–1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s—his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874–1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s—his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Dancing in the Dark
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $23.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874–1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s—his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $23.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874–1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s—his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
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A Distant Shore
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Rules for Old Men Waiting
A Novel
Written by Peter Pouncey
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $13.95
A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Pouncey
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $13.95
A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
White Teeth
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Zadie Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $14.95
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Book Thief
Written by Markus Zusak
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $17.99
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Written by Markus Zusak
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $17.99
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
The Book Thief
Written by Markus Zusak
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by Markus Zusak
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
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