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A gripping ebook-exclusive suspense novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maureen Lee.Sixteen years ago, summer went wrong...As school closed and the long summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together. Daisy...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2015-06-18
Format(s) : ePub
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSONThroughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage,...
Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-06-11
Format(s) : ePub
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'There are stories here which will make you shudder, and which will linger long in the mind' Ian Rankin Passion. Obsession. Revenge.A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of the psychological thriller.White nights of passion and revenge in St....
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2015-06-04
Format(s) : ePub
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Twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric...
Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the...
Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2015-05-21
Collection :
Canadian Literature Collection
Format(s) : PDF
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Joe Gores collects here fourteen stories spanning the five decades of his varied writing career. In the title story, two bright young scientists set out to prove there is no good-dispensing God by demonstrating that there is no evil-dispensing Satan - with unforeseen...
Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection :
Murder Room
Format(s) : ePub
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Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Joe Gores...
Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2015-05-14
Collection :
Murder Room
Format(s) : ePub
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In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane...
Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-05-07
Format(s) : ePub
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An anthology of nine winning short stories from this highly regarded competition which has run since 1991 and celebrates contemporary Welsh writing in English. It also includes the winner and runner-up from the inaugural Under-21 Prize.The stories range widely in time...
Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2015-05-07
Format(s) : ePub
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From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called "wickedly good" (Kansas City Star), "cinematic and charged" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and "studded with delights"...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2015-04-07
Format(s) : ePub
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From the bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel comes an enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories.Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life but, he learns the hard way, he must keep it hidden from those...
Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-04-02
Format(s) : ePub
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Original and bewitching rewrites of children's stories and fairytales set around World War Two, by the Women's Prize-shortlisted authorA cherub breaks all the rules when he spends one night with a girl on earth.Snow White and Rose Red forge a unique way to survive the...
Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2015-04-02
Format(s) : ePub
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To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer...
Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-03-31
Format(s) : ePub
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'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...'Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....
Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of...
Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : ePub
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Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters. The lives of ordinary Israelis are set...
Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-02-28
Format(s) : ePub
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In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling. The tales are wide-ranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers; witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies; reivers, monsters and...
Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2015-02-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Four of our most-loved saga authors invite you to join them on a journey through motherhood in this collection of heart-warming short stories.Daisy's Day by Anne BakerIt's 1920s Liverpool and Daisy must do everything she can to protect her children from poverty and...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-02-26
Format(s) : ePub
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A chance encounter with an old schoolfriend confronting a devastating disease leads Colin Turnbull to reassess his life. Everything had seemed in place: academic brilliance, marriage to his boss's daughter and a formidable career. But, as Colin discovers, these apparent...
Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2015-02-26
Format(s) : ePub
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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.'A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics...
Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-02-26
Format(s) : ePub
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