The butcher's boy - Patrick McCabeCondition: Pre loved This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short listed for the Bram Stoker Award and England's prestigious Booker Prize.

As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots

It is the incredible journey of an awkward

so he finds himself a girlfriend

legendary leopards and mambas

Mowgli is schooled in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther

a Slovakian Jew

in religions

as never before

pitch-perfect

To her surprise

A Country of Two Agricultures focuses less on history and more on the present and the future

and through it she realizes that finding her voice might get her into a world of trouble