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__________________________________________'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard … I think it’s a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH‘I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.’...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2019-07-25
ePub
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'Shot through with compassion . . . this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.' A. L. KENNEDY 'Moving and unconventionally wise.' Guardian________________________This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-07-18
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CAREY LOGANShe was the genius wild child of the New York art scene, and my idol.FAKEI was a no-name painter from the Florida backwater, clawing my way into their world.LIKEWhen she died, she left a space that couldn't be filled. Except, maybe, byMEEverything that gets...
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Riverrun
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2019-07-11
ePub
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'Brilliant... profoundly affecting. A beautiful story' - RUTH JONES, author of Never Greener******Michael is a broken man. He's waiting for the 09.46 to Gloucester, so as to reach Crewe for 11.22: the platforms are long at Crewe and he can walk easily into the path of a...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-07-04
ePub
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Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
ePub
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'The best Norwegian novel ever' Karl Ove KnausgaardMattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since they were young, gets so ...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
ePub
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'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The TimesA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.At the age of ninety-something,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2019-07-04
ePub
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' Colm TóibínSixty-something Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-06-06
ePub
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Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2019-06-06
ePub
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For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances - a hundred years apart - from the small New England town they call home.Henrietta and Jane are growing up in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town,...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
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2019-05-16
ePub
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The Last Book of Jorkens, the sixth and last collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published, is a collection of fantasy short stories around the character Joseph Jorkens. It was left unpublished on Dunsany's death, and was finally issued in a limited first...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2019-05-02
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Jorkens
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Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister's murder.Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2019-05-02
ePub
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In post-war Derry, a young boy grows up in a house heavy with silence.From the 1940s through the early years of the Troubles, Reading in the Dark follows a child who senses that something terrible has happened long before he understands what it is.In whispered...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-05-02
ePub
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With Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm Tóibín, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson & more In this stunning collection, the best and brightest writers working today reimagine...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2019-04-18
ePub
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'A gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that we can imagine' J COURTNEY SULLIVAN'A suburban srama build to leap form page to screen' Kirkus Reviews'Fascinating and moving' EOWYN IVEY-----------------------In a sleepy...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-04-18
ePub
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‘Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky’Where do you go if you can’t feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can’t fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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'Böll's novel blows a stent in the human heart. . . It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introduction 'This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole astronomical units; I am stunned by it as if by a blow. It is...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataIneko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé.The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George SteinerAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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