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Jimmy Rabbitte hates jazz, always has. But his wife Aiofe loves it, andJimmy loves Aiofe. So when, in attempt to convert him, she buys him two tickets for a Keith Jarrett concert he decides to take Outspan, former member of Jimmy’s band The Commitments, who has come...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-08-03
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Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of...
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Virago
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2013-08-01
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'They no longer hold themselves up with all their might, but sink a little and at that moment appear totally human'Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a scene's every telling detail and symbolic aspect with a precise and remarkable beauty. In...
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Penguin
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2013-08-01
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Place exerts the power of destiny in these ten stories of lives uncannily recognisable and unforgettably strange: a boy makes a surprising discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gathers at the bedside of its dying matriarch; a...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-31
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A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-31
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A collection of ten erotic stories from the best-selling author of The Initiation of Miss Holly and the Lakeland Heatwave paranormal erotic romance trilogy.Hired HandPretty city boy, Tim Harris, is the last man Suzie Sheridan would have hired to help her on the farm had...
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Headline Accent
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2013-07-25
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A new Newsflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.Post-Rising Australia can be a dangerous place, especially if you're a member of the government-sponsored Australia Conservation Corps, a group of people dedicated to...
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Orbit UK
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2013-07-16
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Newsflesh Novella
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Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-05
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Dark yet disarming, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection.Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.Where power ends in corruption, or violence.Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.Where love is power, or something...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-04
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An album of thirteen short stories.An invitation to embark on a journey: from modern urban London, to a river in Africa, to world war, to the near and not-so-near past, to death and the ultimate state.Joseph Smith’s third book, Finally My Ambulance, is a flow of...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-04
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A short ebook exclusive story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas for BeginnersBeth and Michael have worked hard all their married life to give their children everything they want. It hasn't been easy but it's been worth it. Now, as Beth enjoys quality...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2013-07-01
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An old friend urges Shea Ohmsford to take a dangerous risk in the concluding story of this gripping Shannara eBook series by New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks.Shea Ohmsford has had quite enough of quests. A year after surviving a harrowing odyssey,...
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Orbit UK
Parution :
2013-06-27
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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The legendary hero Allanon takes center stage in the first of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara - by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.The history is thus:The...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2013-06-20
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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A city besieged by a powerful warlock seeks salvation from a fabled warrior in the second of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara - by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2013-06-20
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each...
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Sphere
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2013-06-06
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Joseph Smith's bestial myth is a strikingly alternative pastoral. Taurus is the psychologically unnerving and viscerally detailed story of a bull. This extract offers a taste of a powerful, beautiful and extremely unusual novel of animal life. It also introduces readers...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-06-06
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A digital only short story from John Connolly, The Sunday Times bestselling author of the Charlie Parker novels.
Lionel Maulding, a rare-book collector, has gone missing from his country home in Norfolk. When his nephew approaches Mr Maulding's solicitor, Mr Quayle,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-05-23
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Encounter a wealth of lively characters and true-to-life situation in this collection of vivid and compelling stories.Ivy of the Angel reveals why an elderly bag lady becomes the centre of attention in an Oxford Street store.Dive into a tale of thwarted love in London's...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The Mafia and the Ten Commandments meet in these interlinked short stories about the undebelly of Naples. Ten uncovers the raw heart of a city, telling the stories of ordinary people forced to make extraordinary compromises in a place permeated by crime.We encounter a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-05-02
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A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage.A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
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