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This award-winning novel from the author of Memory Piece is a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. One morning, Deming Guo’s mother,...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2017-05-02
ePub
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Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen,Tom finds himself...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-03-02
ePub
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If you enjoy Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan and Lisa McInerney, you will want to read THE FRACTURED LIFE OF JIMMY DICE by Ronan Ryan. Jimmy is born a twin, and while he doesn't know it, his nearest sibling has stayed with him forever, overseeing the drama of his...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2017-01-26
ePub
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'A tenderly evoked and compelling read. The House at Silvermoor deserves to be a huge success' Rachel Hore, author of The Love Child'I loved The House at Silvermoor. Tracy's writing is always so warm and the story is both romantic and compelling' Rosanna Ley, author of...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2016-06-30
ePub
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Liverpool, 1976: Martha is lost. She’s been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on the train from Paris. Ever since, she’s waited in lost property for someone to claim her. It’s been sixteen years, but she’s still hopeful. Meanwhile, there are lost...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2016-03-10
ePub
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'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'For André, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'. He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-01-07
ePub
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 13 Minutes and the writer behind Netflix's Behind Her Eyes comes a heart-breaking, heart-stopping tale of love, life and death which will take your breath away.Toby is a boy who has forgotten how to live.Clara is a girl who...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2015-02-26
ePub
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The Testimony of Talieson Jones is a lyrical and acutely perceptive coming-of-age tale about faith, doubt and growing up, from Rhidian Brook, the accalimed author ofThe Aftermath.Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-09-04
ePub
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The novel behind the new Danish TV series starringThe Killing's Sofie Gråbøl, available on All 4 / Walter PresentsTwo young men from very different backgrounds. Christian is the son of Danish ex-pats; Marcus works as a house boy for a Swedish family, hoping they will...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2014-08-07
Collection :
The Africa Trilogy
ePub
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'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday Times'Entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream' GuardianThe second novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts HotelLonglisted for the Baileys Prize 2015At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2014-04-24
ePub
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'A brilliant and under-read fever dream of a novel' New York Times'Erens brilliantly captures the dark side of adolescence . . . On a par with the likes of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides' Independent'Flawlessly executed and irrefutably true' John Irving'A must...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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It is the early Sixties. The parents of law student, Peach Gatehouse, are both doctors and her brother is a medical student. She is in love with Henry but cannot contemplate life as a doctor's wife.Stifled by this medical environment from which she feels unable to...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2013-07-25
ePub
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Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-07-05
ePub
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Anna lives in Brooklyn. But she didn't always. She grew up in Kielce, Poland, where the summers were long and the politics communist. When her parents were indicted for their alliance with anti-government forces,Anna had to flee her homeland, leaving her closest friends...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2013-06-06
ePub
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Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Siphiwe, a nineteen-year-old orphan, is haunted by memories of the senseless death of his elder brother. When a woman selling mangoes is stabbed on the street in front of him, Siphiwe rushes to her aid, desperate...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-05-09
ePub
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Half Apache and mostly orphaned, the adventures of Edgar Presley Mint begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a reform school to a Mormon foster family, comedy and trouble...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-04-30
ePub
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Riveting, brilliantly imagined and passionate, THE DISAPPEARANCES, the compelling sequel to THE KILLABLES, will appeal to everyone who loved the powerful and gripping storytelling of THE HUNGER GAMES. They walked in silence onto the raised path that led to the East...
Editeur :
Hodderscape
Parution :
2013-03-28
ePub
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As a teenager, Raven made the split-second decision to flee across the border to the Wilds, compelled to save an abandoned newborn - a baby girl left for dead and already blue from the cold. When she and the baby are taken in by a band of rebels, Raven finds herself an...
Editeur :
Hodderscape
Parution :
2013-03-05
ePub
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Do you ever wonder where your life is going? You are not alone.Story (that’s his name) can feel a middle-youth crisis coming on. He’s got a great job, a great flat and great mates:Mac, who is obsessed with biscuits;JP, who never says anything if it’s nice;Cannie, whose...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-01-31
ePub
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Antietam (Andy) Brown - named for the great-great-grandfather who died on that Civil War battleground - was ten years old when he killed his abusive foster father. Now, after seven years in reform school, he is free to make a new start. But he is immediately thrust into...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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