Télécharger le livre :  Growing Up
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Barsetshire in the war years. Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as the Second World War ravages Europe, Sir Harry and Lady Waring open their estate to...

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Parution : 2016-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Peace Breaks Out
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they...

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Parution : 2016-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gift Giving: Favourite Stories
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'Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon' PHILLIP PULLMAN'One of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last fifty years' NEIL GAIMAN 'The Gift Giving is the perfect...

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Parution : 2016-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Liza's England
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'A modern-day masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES'The third, Liza's England, in many ways the most moving of the trilogy, tracks the life of a northern working-class woman from the beginning of the century to well into Thatcher's reign, exploding feminist myths as readily as...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Union Street
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'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh...

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Parution : 2016-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Blow Your House Down
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'Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing - you'll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting' NEW YORK TIMES 'A courageous and disturbing novel' ELIZABETH WARD, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Despite its black humour, it is a deeply political book'...

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Parution : 2016-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Vanishing Cornwall
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'An eloquent elegy on the past of a county she loved so much' THE TIMES'This classic evocation of du Maurier's beloved home ranks as a work of art ... ' INDEPENDENT 'Du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'There was a smell in...

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Parution : 2016-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Nothing Sacred
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'Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WARNER, INDEPENDENT 'With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right' GUARDIAN'Her writing occupies a unique...

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Parution : 2016-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Artist's Widow
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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)'[Her] prose is a joy to read' MICHAEL ARDITTI, INDEPENDENT 'This is a vicious little book, and thus all the more enjoyable' PAUL BAUMANN, NEW YORK TIMES 'A . . . funny, and...

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Parution : 2016-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Redhill Rococo
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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)'The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house' GUARDIAN 'A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer'...

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Parution : 2016-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Atmospheric Railway
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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)'The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house' GUARDIAN'Her style has a lyric elegance that has deceived critics into describing her, with...

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Parution : 2016-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
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FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, GRACE PALEY'Grace Paley's is exceptional' KASIA BODDY, GUARDIAN 'Her unladylike gutsiness and friendliness are nonpareil' EDMUND WHITE, OBSERVER 'They are stories full of the stories we all tell and live by,...

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Parution : 2016-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Of Summer
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'This family tale mirrors the history of a country that can never evade its own past' The TIMES'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  That Lady
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland' IRISH TIMES 'Writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' VAL HENNESSY'Stunning, unforgettable...

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Parution : 2016-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Without My Cloak
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'The first time I realised how powerful the small ordinary family life story can be' MAEVE BINCHY'A peculiarly beautiful and arresting piece of...

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Parution : 2016-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  People Who Knock on the Door
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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Venomously accurate' SUNDAY TIMES 'A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to...

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Parution : 2016-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary Lavelle
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A superior type of romantic novel . . . quasi-intelligent and discursive' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' VAL HENNESSY'A description of a bull-fight that...

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Parution : 2016-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Land Of Spices
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love' SUNDAY TIMES 'If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch' CLARE BOYLAN 'A fuller appreciation of modern...

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Parution : 2016-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ante-Room
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AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A grave and beautiful story, exquisitely composed and cut to a jewel-like fineness' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY'A gem of a novel' TAMSIN HARGREAVESIreland,...

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Parution : 2016-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Cheerfulness Breaks In
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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-05-05
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