In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
This year’s Man Booker Prize winner, The Sellout by Paul Beatty, is an irreverent, hilarious novel. The story puts its focus upon the difficulties of race relations in the modern world and explores issues to do with ethnic identity politics. The narrator, known only by his surname, Me, recounts his efforts to bring together the community of Dickens by the fairly unconventional method of reinstating segregation. As the story unfolds, the reader is guided through Me’s life, from stories about the farcical parenting techniques of his sociologist father, to the narrator’s unwilling acquisition of a dedicated, but work-averse, slave, the former child-actor Hominy Jenkins. Beatty’s writing is full of humour and he has a great knack for producing laughter-inducing similes. Despite the serious subject matter, the book is riotously funny, and may remind readers of classic American comedy novels like Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.