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'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves When the young, beautiful Mademoiselle de Chartres comes to court, her primary objective is to find herself a husband. Upon her mother's...
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Riverrun
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2018-08-23
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riverrun editions
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'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his...
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Riverrun
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2018-08-23
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riverrun editions
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2019.'A brawn cocktail that nails the zeitgeist' Irish Times 'I loved Matthew Sperling's sly, subversive novel, a wickedly funny tale of how to come out on top in a fake news world.' Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City 'Outrageous,...
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Riverrun
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2018-08-23
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'A powerful rendering of contemporary masculinity in America.' TLS'A blistering debut . . . Hilarious and compelling, Holmes offers up a mirror to contemporary society . . . a compassionate and powerful exploration of how race, friendship and sex intersect and the...
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Sceptre
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2018-08-09
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOME TRUTHS AND ONE MINUTE LATERYou never forget your first love.18 years ago, Olivia learned to live without Sean Kenyon.She moved on, building a life with her husband Richmond and their two children in the picturesque town...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2018-08-09
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A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives...
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Penguin
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2018-08-02
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‘One of the masters of modern Chinese literature’ Jung ChangThis gripping dystopia contrasts the reality of life in China today with the sunny optimism of the ‘Chinese dream’.One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-07-26
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'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces'Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani...
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Penguin
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2018-07-26
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______________________________Could one bad decision tear two families apart?Everyone’s seen the compromising photo of Lyla, a scholarship kid in a prestigious private school.Everyone knows that Nina’s son, expensively prepared for success since childhood, took the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2018-07-24
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*Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award *'What a writer. I was totally captivated. Moving and ultimately uplifting' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz'An...
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Riverrun
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2018-07-12
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______________________'Every now and then I come across a book I wish I’d written. The Possible World is one ... A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' JODI PICOULTBen is the sole survivor...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2018-07-12
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'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world'Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar,...
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Penguin
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2018-07-05
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The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-07-05
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'Quite dazzling.' TLS'Plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic' GuardianShadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is...
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Sceptre
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2018-06-28
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The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.‘A kind of surrealistic writer… Serious literature’ Haruki Murakami‘Mad, sad and funny… Thrilling’...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-05-31
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A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and...
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Penguin
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2018-05-31
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**As read on BBC Radio Four**Uplifting, joyous, hopeful - a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize'A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-05-17
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A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes. Incapable of marching for days, one old man and his blind dog stay behind, keeping watch over his single ear of corn. Every day is a victory over death.The Years, Months,...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-05-17
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An irresistible novel of unexpected friendships, second chances and dark secrets, from the bestselling author and Queen of Uplit Ruth Hogan.'Warm and wise' Guardian | 'A book to really love' Stylist | 'Will soften even the hardest of hearts' Red | 'Subtle and poignant'...
Editeur :
Two Roads
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2018-05-03
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Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, parties, fights, wild...
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Penguin
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2018-05-03
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