Jones, Lloyd: Mister Pip

Modern fictionShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is the paperback edition of the novel about love, growing up and the power of books. Set on a remote South Pacific island, threatened by uprising, it follows the intertwining stories of Matilda and her classmates, a boy called Pip and a man named Mr Dickens. An unforgettable tale of survival by story. 'Mister Pip is the first of Jones's six novels to have travelled from his native New Zealand to the UK. It is so hoped that it won't be the last.' Observer