This bumper Tenth Anniversary Edition of Girls' Night In brings together much-loved stories from the previous four books by some of the biggest names in women's fiction - Marian Keyes, Candace Bushnell, Cathy Kelly and Maggie Alderson, to name a few.Have fun and do good...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2014-12-01

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Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's singular and opulent voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. From a bed that transforms the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Fourteen stories set around the world, from the author of ROGUE MALE.A collection containing some of Household's most beloved tales.With stories ranging from playful hilarity among the Tropic of Capricorn to the savage realities of war and conflict in Cancer,...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2014-11-20

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A short story collection from the author of classic masterpiece ROGUE MALE.From the suspenseful and exciting to the heart-wrenchingly poignant, this 1987 collection is a striking example of some of the author's very best work. Stories across a vast array of styles,...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2014-11-20

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When a video clerk loses his job, he finds himself stumbling home past a shocking murder scene ...Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4R2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-11-20

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Alicia Erian's deliciously grown-up debut may not be a book for nice girls, but it has a lot to teach us about the unruly nature of desire. A college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza waiter, a spelling champion spends her afternoons in the bath with...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2014-11-06

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John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead ...Joe Hill is the New York Times...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-11-06

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365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of365 stories, each365 words long.In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the365 stories...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Meet the young Detective Kevin Byrne, rising star of the Philadelphia police force.Christmas Eve, 1988. Partnered with streetwise veteran Frankie Sheehan, Byrne is called out on a freezing night to investigate the brutal assault of a young woman in a crime-ridden...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2014-11-06
Collection : Byrne and Balzano
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The short story "Better Than Home" is a mainstream short story about a father and son relationship - with just a touch of baseball ... Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-10-23

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The short story "Abraham's Boys" reminds us that all stories, at heart, are about taking the awesome, irreversible leap from innocence to knowledge - and about the terrible weight of the landingJoe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-10-09

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Treat yourself to this wonderfully funny and romantic short story by Jo Thomas, kindle bestselling author of The Oyster Catcher, The Olive Branch and Honey Farm on the Hill, available exclusively in ebook.Praise for Jo Thomas' The Olive Branch: 'Sun, good food and...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2014-10-09

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Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-10-02

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YOU WILL HEAR THE LOCUST SING is a stunning story about a boy who wakes up one morning to find himself a human-sized insect, and about the troubles this causes.Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-09-25

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A beautiful story about Art; a living, breathing boy in all respects - who happens to be made of inflatable plastic. POP ART is an exceptional, must-read of a short story.Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-09-11

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Alec Sheldon owns the Rosebud Theatre, an old-style movie palace, and worries about the future, and mortality - a fear made all the sharper by the knowledge that his beautiful old theatre is haunted ...Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns,...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-08-28

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The people who inhabited the dockland area of Cardiff, know as Tiger Bay,have engraved their personalities on the very air of Bute Street and, under Alexander Cordell's vivid pen, the streets are crammed again with everycreed and nationality; from priests and nuns to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-08-21

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Eddie Carroll is sick to death of editing the collection America's Best New Horror, sick of reading through second-rate stories in order to find the few "best new." But one afternoon he stumbles across a new story so remarkable that he soon embarks on a quixotic quest...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-08-14

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In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader into a sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. As far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol, and upstate New York, these stories come alive to the touch of estrangement, misunderstanding,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-08-14

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