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India Jane knows that there is a connection between herself and Joe, and yet their relationship isn't working out the way she thinks it should. Gathering her new friends around her and emailing Erin - who has boy problems of her own - she sets out to find the meaning of love for the first time in...

'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter. But now he's 35 and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be.

It's 1964 and Dr David Henry finds himself delivering his wife's twins. Relieved, he sees that his son is born healthy, but recognises the signs of Down's Syndrome in his daughter's face. In a split-second decision that will haunt their family forever, he asks the nurse to take his daughter away.

'Middlesex' is the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. Jeffrey Eugenides is also the author of 'The Virgin Suicides'.

The life of Riley Gordon is an excellent one - she has no issues or crises, and she lives life to the full. But her mother is not so sure, suggesting that instead she should find and man and settle down. This novel challenges our preconceptions regarding marriage, lifestyles, age and love.

Sephy is a Cross, a member of the ruling class. Callum is a Nought - a colourless member of the underclass. Against a background of prejudice, highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance blossoms between Sephy and Callum.

Conrad has decided that it would be good to die before he gets seriously old and so spends his time sorting out his chaotic life. Sue finds that she has plenty of male company - other people's husbands, ones she tells Conrad all about, who are just good friends to her. But there's one she, someho...

1957, & Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail & 19-years-old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community.

For 18 years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other. Parents and children alike are best friends so it comes as no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But one night a call comes from the hospital - Emily has been shot dead.

Judith Flatland follows her husband to Paris, where he is about to finalise a high-profile business deal. Bored with her role as a corporate wife, she gets the feeling that life has passed her by. She is soon drawn into a passionate affair and eventually must choose between her husband and her lo...