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A SPECIAL SHORT STORY FROM THE WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTION 2015 -A STANDALONE PREQUEL TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING THE WAY WE WEREIt's Valentine's Day and Alice's house is a sea of elaborate cards and billowing heart-shaped balloons. These gifts are...
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Penguin
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2016-02-25
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The Night Guest introduced an Australian writer 'with the promise of literary greatness' (Los Angeles Times).The High Places delivers on that promise.The dazzling stories in this collection find those moments when people confront the strangeness and mystery of their...
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E-Penguin
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2016-02-01
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When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-01-28
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Ewan should not have accepted a lift to Glasgow from The Professor. He had bought a train ticket, had brought a packed lunch - he had been all set. All he had needed to say was 'No'. Two letters. Instead he nodded his head gratefully to The Professor's kind offer. Now...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-01-21
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'An exquisite collection from an exciting new voice in short fiction' LadyA woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2016-01-14
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Secrets and lies in the 1930s in an atmospheric short story from the bestselling author of The Girl in the PhotographMarjorie knows that James has had affairs in the past but she believed him when he said it would never happen again. Then the old warning signs start to...
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Penguin
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2016-01-14
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The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man will seek the truth. NOVEMBER, 2019. I've never believed in any kind of god. But that's a problem when they start manifesting. It was a problem for everyone else too, especially those whose gods did not...
Editeur :
Arcadia
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2016-01-07
Collection :
The Return of the Ancient Gods
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A sexy seasonal short story, by the bestselling author of the Untwisted series, Alice Raine.Fans of Sylvia Day, Jodi Ellen Malpas, and Fifty Shades of Grey will be hooked on Alice Raine's enticing and addictive series.Christmas With Nathan is a steamy addition to the...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2015-11-12
Collection :
Untwisted Series
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In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirrored chamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiled Englishwoman abandoned by her...
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Virago
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2015-11-05
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irresistible new windows onto the world from Arizona to Dubai and from Moscow to...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-11-05
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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)'A highly original talent' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Mackay's] gentle mastery of language is quite beyond showy displays of technique' GUARDIAN 'Her visual observations glittering...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2015-11-05
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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In this short story, Sharon McCone is excitedly moving her detective agency into the perfect new office space. Unfortunately, real estate woes aren't the only headache that the new building brings into Sharon's life. Possible nineteenth century ghosts and a shady...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-10-29
Collection :
Sharon McCone Mystery
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It's time for Layla to recapture the magic of her childhood...A sparkling, feel-good short story from the bestselling author of The Oyster Catcher, The Olive Branch, and The Honey Farm on the Hill available exclusively in ebook.When Layla arrives in the Welsh coastal...
Editeur :
Review
Parution :
2015-10-08
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An exclusive ebook suspense novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maureen Lee.Culloden: an elite boarding school for girls in New Hampshire, surrounded by fields of yellow corn which roll down to the sea, is now a headline in the national newspapers due to a...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-10-08
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The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2015-10-01
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There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-10-01
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From the twice Man Booker longlisted author ofFrom a Low and Quiet Sea'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers, has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power that they hit you in the solar plexus. He deals with the dark side of modern Irish life and...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-09-24
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'the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him'
George Eliot's first published work consisted of three short novellas: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story', and 'Janet's Repentance'. Their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-10
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