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A Month in the Country Month in the Country	J. L. Carr Carr	In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Contributors: Michael Holroyd
The Year of the French Year of the French	Thomas Flanagan Flanagan	The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Thomas Flanagan's best-selling novel of the Irish rebellion of 1798. "Thomas Flanagan grants this historic period a new and panoramic life." ? Time Contributors: Seamus Deane
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy	Olivia Manning Manning	A multi-stranded and engrossing novel of civilian life during World War II. "One of those combinations of soap opera and literature that are so rare you'd think it would meet the conditions of two kinds of audiences: those after what the trade calls 'a good read,' and those who want something more." —Howard Moss, The New York Review of Books Contributors: Rachel Cusk
Morte D'Urban Morte D'Urban	J.F. Powers Powers	This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature. Contributors: Elizabeth Hardwick
The Stories of J.F. Powers Stories of J.F. Powers	J.F. Powers Powers	Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight to the suburbs. His greatest subject, however—and one that was uniquely his—was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest. Contributors: Denis Donoghue
Wheat That Springeth Green Wheat That Springeth Green	J.F. Powers Powers	Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Contributors: Katherine A. Powers
Inverted World Inverted World	Christopher Priest Priest	The City is pulled along on tracks, forever at risk of slipping back in space and time, and threatened on all sides by hostile tribes. Christopher Priest's classic of hard science fiction is as mind-bending as it was when it was first published thirty years ago. Contributors: John Clute
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage	Tim Robinson Robinson	Mapmaker Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland in the 1970s and fell in love with their geography and history. In Pilgrimage, he walks the perimeter of Árainn, its largest island, and the result is "a loving anatomy...in which the point where nature and culture meet in the island is observed with great beauty and precision." (Colm Tóibín) Contributors: Robert Macfarlane
We Think the World of You We Think the World of You	J. R. Ackerley Ackerley	“Boy meets dog, boy loses dog, boy gets dog. The book is both breezy and sad...Ackerley’s appeal lies in his graceful, ironic style: His books are candid confessions of a good friend, full of small, hilarious surprises.” —Peter Terzian, Out Contributors: P. N. Furbank
Pitch Dark Pitch Dark	Renata Adler Adler	“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark, Renata Adler’s follow-up to her prize-winning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions, questions that bedevil Kate Ennis as she considers her relationship with her married lover. “A moving, infuriating, tantalizing book.”—The Boston Globe Contributors: Muriel Spark