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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....
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Vintage Digital
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2019-06-06
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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
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2019-06-06
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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,...
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Tinder Press
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2019-05-16
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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 It was left unpublished on Dunsany's death, and was finally issued in a limited first...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
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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...
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Corsair
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2019-05-02
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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...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-05-02
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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...
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Riverrun
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2019-04-18
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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...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-04-18
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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...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-04-04
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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...
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Penguin
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2019-04-04
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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....
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Penguin
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2019-04-04
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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
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2019-04-04
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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,...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-04-04
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2019-03-07
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