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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...
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Headline Accent
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2015-11-12
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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
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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...
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Virago
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2015-11-05
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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
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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...
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Review
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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...
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Orion
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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...
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Corsair
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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
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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...
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Corsair
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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...
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Penguin
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-10
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-10
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Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of the only enemy attack on Australian soil...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-09-03
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD 2014By the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - for fans of international literary fiction,...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-08-27
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Five great stories from one of the most quintessentially Russian of writers, Nikolai Leskov.In the best of Leskov's stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov...
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Penguin
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2015-08-27
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Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014'The Absent Therapist is a miniature but infinite novel, and unlike anything I've read before. It's just achingly good.' Luke KennardThe Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember,...
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E-Penguin
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2015-08-14
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Terror can have such simple beginnings -- a child's letterto Father Christmas...a pretty girl glimpsed in a Londonstreet...a trip down the Brighton Road...a night spent in an empty mansion for a bet?And the consequences can be fearsome, as the unsleepingdead walk again,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-08-13
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DAFT WEE STORIES is Limmy’s first book.It is a collection of stories.There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories.There are normal-way-up stories.There are weird stories.There...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2015-07-30
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