Josephine Cox
Divorced and Deadly

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it’s different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital
mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Ian McEwan
Solar

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it’s different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital
mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Lev Grossman
The Magicians

Precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of daily life by reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land. When he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, his childhood dream turns into a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.

‘Deep fantasy fans can’t afford to miss the darkly
comic and unforgettably queasy experience of
reading this book and be glad for reality’ – Booklist