The Carpathians
by Janet Frame | 
Living In The Maniototo
by Janet Frame | 
Nobody Is Ever Missing
by Catherine Lacey | 
Rain
by Kirsty Gunn | 
Novel About My Wife
by Emily Perkins | 
Notable American Women
by Ben Marcus | 
Villages
by John Updike | 
George Mills
by Stanley Elkin | 
A Special Relationship
by Douglas Kennedy | 
A Thing of Beauty
by Archibald J. Cronin | 
The Comforters
by Muriel Spark | 
Wheels
by Arthur Hailey | 
Heat
by William Goldman | 
Doctor Criminale
by Malcolm Bradbury | 
Sabbatical
by John Barth | 
The Ambassador
by Morris West | 
The Shrimp and the Anemone
by L. P. Hartley | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Towards Another Summer is a meditation on the themes of exile and return, homesickness and not knowing where home really is. It is suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty.