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A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the...
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Penguin
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2019-03-28
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor, debauchery and fascinating historical detail.' Who Weekly 'a brisk, original tale written with verve' Mud Literary Prize judging...
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Hachette Australia
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2019-03-26
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"The language [takes] on a musicality that is in sharp contrast to the bleak setting . . . refreshing . . . a strong debut."—New York Times Book Review “Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberance, offering a much-needed glimpse into a...
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Algonquin Books
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2019-03-19
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Meet Charlie Savage.Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realised that he’s been a woman all along … Compiled here for the first time is a whole year’s worth of Roddy Doyle’s hilarious series for...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-03-07
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'Absolutely amazing... a cross between The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Walking Dead' Eoin Colfer'You'll be terrified, fascinated and above all, uplifted by Orpen - a heroine to rival Philip Pullman's Lyra or The Passage's Amy' StylistRaised by her mother and Maeve...
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Tinder Press
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2019-03-07
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* A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 ** LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019 *'BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-03-07
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1871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in Nebraska.Taking the name of Billy Webb, he is hired by bison hunters, but leaves after a bloody dispute. He then takes the Comancheros Road, which he...
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Maclehose Press
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2019-03-07
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The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.'The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published...
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Riverrun
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2019-03-07
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riverrun editions
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Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2019-02-28
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THE PRIZE-WINNING SATIRICAL BESTSELLER - A "HOUSE OF CARDS" FORTHE EU MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThis is the tale of a continent, a city and its inhabitants as they navigate their way through the confusing tangle of 21st-century life. The Capital is a...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2019-02-21
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A TWIST THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART . . . AN ENDING THAT WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.'I loved it' Jojo Moyes'Compelling and moving . . . it made me cry' Marian Keyes*****Audrey's family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and...
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Orion
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2019-02-21
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When Richard agrees to share a flat with Chuck, his life takes a strange new lurch. Chuck is enormous, ebullient, and more than a trifle camp. He's also violently jealous of Richard and his growing friendship with George. . . Set in the bedsitter world of South...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-02-14
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020**Two timely novellas exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption‘Victory makes a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive investigators of the human heart writing in English today… An instant...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-02-07
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Samuel Lock's first novel, AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, was acclaimed by the critics as one of the most strikingly original first novels for years and went on to win the Sagittarius Award. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, Lock's new novel, shares many of its qualities - an exact but...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-02-07
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A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening MazeHenry Banks, a brilliant, anxiously ambitious young actor prepared to go to any length for a role, is finally on the brink of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-01-31
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A Surrealist novel in the vein of Angela Carter, about love and beauty and dark secrets.Played out like the command of an oracle are the events that stain one night in the improbable setting of this desert tale. Rearing its impudent architecture like insult on a...
Editeur :
Virago
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2019-01-31
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying short story. A taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday.She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-01-24
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‘Accomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’ New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2019-01-24
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'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time… will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2019-01-17
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‘A brilliant depiction of both romantic rapture and heartfelt delusion’ (Daily Telegraph), Slack-Tide is the new sucker punch of a novel from Elanor Dymott, author of Every Contact Leaves a TraceIt is four years since the loss of a child broke her marriage, and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2019-01-17
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