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'This is fiction, but it has, for me, the clang of truth' John UpdikeWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY E. L. DOCTOROWJohn O’Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story writer in the history of the magazine....
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Vintage Digital
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2014-07-31
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A wonderful volume of Conrad's short fiction, reissued alongside the new film The Secret Sharer.This volume of Conrad's short works explores a vast array of human experience in a variety of settings across the globe, from the sea to the colonial world, from the Far East...
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Penguin
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2014-07-31
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"Reading Platonov, one gets a sense of the relentless, implacable absurdity built into the language and with each...utterance, that absurdity deepens" - Joseph BrodskyPeople are on the move in all ten stories in this collection, coming home as in "The Return", leaving...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-07-10
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Jonathan Coe is not a prolific writer of short stories - the seven in this collection make up his entire output (as against ten published novels) - but each one is a jewel of storytelling and characterization. And each could only have come from the pen of the novelist...
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Penguin
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2014-06-26
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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern...
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Penguin
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2014-06-26
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The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.'It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-06-25
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Written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, this short story by multi-award-winning, million copy bestselling author Andrea Levy tells the tale of two Jamaican service men in that conflict.
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Tinder Press
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2014-06-19
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* By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014* 'An idiosyncratic and compelling voice' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-06-19
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A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines...
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Penguin
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2014-06-05
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From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with humour, empathy, and rare and magical descriptive powers these nine vibrant stories...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-06-05
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This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings.With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-05-22
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'One afternoon, in a particularly bright and glowing August, some years before I knew I was happy...'Charming, evocative and imbued with the melancholy of nostalgia, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is Dylan Thomas's much-loved collection of loosely...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-05-22
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A charming short story from the author of the celebrated Inspector Montalbano series. Sicily, 1862. In the newly united Italy, Judge Surra arrives in Montelusa to take charge of the local court, in a town where conflict has been kind to a select few. At first, Surra is...
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Maclehose Press
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2014-05-01
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From award-winning novelist Ceridwen Dovey, a collection of short stories as innovative and beautifully written as Nam Le's The Boat.These ten tales are told by the souls of animals killed in human conflicts in the past century or so, including a camel in colonial...
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E-Penguin
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2014-04-23
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With Rebecca Shaw's trademark warm storytelling and eye for character, this is a perfect summer read.The House at Spinnaker Cove is reminiscent of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. A haunting story of a young woman moving to a glorious beachside house only to find something...
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Orion
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2014-04-17
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Wanted: Discerning reader with an open mind and an appetite for destruction.John Lago is an intern. But that's just a cover - his real job is to kill people. The problem is, he's still very much learning. Tasked with taking out a corrupt movie boss, John heads to...
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Sphere
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2014-04-03
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The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2014-04-03
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In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions...
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John Murray
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2014-03-27
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The second collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 12 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
Editeur :
John Murray
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2014-03-27
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The author's beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers. History plays a part too, for Norse and Scottish legend are revived in tales of witch trials, priest hunts and Viking raids, all...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2014-03-27
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