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A novel of friendship, family and forgiveness, from the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, perfect for fans of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne and Miss Beatrice Jordan, their...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-06-15
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Günter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique.Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today. During the...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-15
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Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother’s house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl. Emilie's rucksack is...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-08
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Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-08
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Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Heller’s workplace...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-08
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An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-08
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Meet Alicia Cortez: survivor, healer...murderer?1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt.1919. Mixed-race Alicia...
Editeur :
Orion
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2017-06-01
ePub
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'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2017-06-01
ePub
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Discover TikTok's new favourite book.'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: -...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-06-01
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‘If you loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, then Pieces of Happiness should be on your reading list. Five friends in their 60s, all battered by life, seek refuge on Fiji and start a chocolate farm.’ - Good HousekeepingFour friends leave their old lives behind. Will...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2017-06-01
ePub
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Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy - or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2017-06-01
ePub
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'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . ....
Editeur :
Penguin
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2017-05-25
ePub
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Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! mines golden seams of goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-05-25
ePub
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It's Christmas in the small town of Lost River. The stage is set for an an enchanting and unforgettable celebration, and even a Christmas miracle... When Oswald moves to the sleepy little town of Lost River he’s not expecting to make friends - but one by one the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-05-25
ePub
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In his first full-length play, Günter Grass takes Bertolt Brecht, the foremost modern German dramatist, as his key figure. On 17 June, 1953, the workers in East Germany rise in rebellion against oppressive measures, but their revolt lacks a voice and a leader.In the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-05-25
ePub
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'So much period atmosphere, you can practically hear the air-raid sirens.' Daily Mail[An] ingenious page-turner' The Lady'A delight' Guinevere Glasfurd 'I've come about the bodies. I know who they are.'Mary is eighty-six years old, and she's tired of being quiet.She has...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-05-18
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'A piercingly elegant novel . . . with the power to both break and mend your heart.' Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane'Epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times, then.' RedWhere do you go when you...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2017-05-18
ePub
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Bored and childless, Katerina Ismailov lives with her husband, Zinovy, under the cruel rule of her father-in-law, Boris. When Boris and Zinovy are both called away from their estate on urgent business, Katerina’s attentions soon turn to Sergei, the newly-arrived...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2017-05-17
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THE NEW NOVEL FROMTHE BOLLINGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF ENGLAND'S LANE.'There's a lot of brilliantly observed detail... it's very funny and very sharp' Michael PalinGeorge is a fashion mad Beatles fan, selfish and cruel. Why his girlfriend Dorothy loves him is a mystery...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2017-05-04
ePub
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The story behindThe Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-05-04
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