Flaubert's ParrotShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact,

a quick-witted

Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic

In Paris a covert Chinese commando team listens to the investigation unfurl and watches from the rooftops

disquieting journey begins

No alliance can defeat Attila by conventional means

she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist

they are beginnning to see the manuscript in a new lightnot simply as a story of faith

A legend in his own lifetime

the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death at Cowl and Comely compel him to investigate further

wide as though with some sustained surprise

Many of them have left for Mars but now one has come back and killed everyone else on the shuttle he returned in

decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea