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Television viewers are well acquainted with key characters such as
sharp-tongued dwarf Tyrion Lannister, Cersei Lannister, the king's
scheming mother, and the "Mother of Dragons" Daenerys Targaryen,
who wants to retake the Iron Throne. The novels also include scores of
other characters who never made the cut for Game of Thrones and
Martin has hinted that some of these could play a much bigger role in
the sixth book.
TBC
The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes
In his first novel after The Sense of an Ending, which won the Man
Booker Prize in 2011, Julian Barnes recounts the life of Dmitri
Shostakovich, the famed Soviet composer who struggled all his life with
the Communist Party's absolute rule over his music - in a decade, he
went from a celebrated cultural icon to being officially denounced for
being too "Western". Barnes has written an ambitious book, says The
Independent, while Guardian describes it as a "complex meditation on
the power, limitations and likely endurance of art".
Out now
Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer
Yet another highly anticipated book, Here I Am is Jonathan Safran
Foer's first novel since 2005 and there's already a lot of hype around it.
Set in Washington DC, the novel follows the implosion of an AmericanJewish family over the course of a month, as divorce and tragedy take
hold of their lives. Meanwhile, overseas, a massive earthquake rocks the
Middle East and Israel's political foundations. Foer's editor Eric Chinski
says Here I Am is full of "high-wire inventiveness and intensity of
imagination".
Out in September

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