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The Shadow Doctor isn't your usual kind of doctor. Sure, you can bring him your problems - but the chances are his solutions will blow your mind. This man can see into your soul, and the cures he prescribes don't come from the pharmacy. If you have fears you just cannot...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-02-09
ePub
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In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2017-02-07
ePub
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**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year**Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-02
ePub
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A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'.An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-02-02
ePub
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'As compelling as it is tough, sidestepping piety in favour of clear-eyed infectious anger' Sunday TimesIrene Dalila Mwathi comes from Kenya with a brutally violent personal history. Once she wanted to be a journalist, now all she wants is to be safe. When she finally...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-01-19
ePub
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A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-01-19
ePub
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Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines.When a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-01-12
ePub
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George Ponderevo, a student of science, is enlisted to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay. Tono-Bungay is a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous cure-all, the creation of his ambitious uncle Edward. As the tonic prospers,George experiences a swift rise in...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-01-12
ePub
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DISCOVER A DIFFERENT SIDE TO H. G. WELLS . . . H.G. Wells's social tales caused a sensation when they were first published in the early twentieth century. Piercingly funny, yet sympathetic, and containing a cast of colourful characters, they have drawn comparisons to...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-01-12
ePub
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The author ofThe Body Audit, shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2021'Rockadoon Shore is terrific' Roddy Doyle'One of the most exciting Irish storytellers to have emerged in years' Gavin CorbettCath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2017-01-12
ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-01-03
ePub
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FANS OF DAN BROWN AND CLIVE CUSSLER WILL BE UNABLE TO RESIST THIS THRILLING NEW JACK HOWARD ACTION ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.'What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins' MIRROR'[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea' DAILY...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-12-29
ePub
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This is the story of a bitter war between the poor Turkish peasants of the Taurus Mountains and the Aghas who covet their land. Ali Safa is determined to take possession of the village of Vayvay but its inhabitants will not sell. Then one villager weakens, prepared to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-12-01
ePub
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Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered,Memed makes for the mountains to become an outlaw. Before long he has transformed from a young...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-12-01
ePub
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Behind every good man is a great woman - or threeA New York Times bestseller: the kaleidoscopic new novel from Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone.Every Monday, sixty-year-old Felix Funicello sets up a new film for his weekly club at an old-fashioned cinema. But one...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-11-24
ePub
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From the author of the internationally bestselling classic THE READER, a tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting. For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-11-24
ePub
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-15
ePub
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A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers'Kees Popinga is a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-03
ePub
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'Feels incredibly modern... it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep' Ian RankinA brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-03
ePub
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017'Finely judged writing like this comes from a place of instinct, and it marks Melrose out as someone to watch . . . Midwinter is a great success' Melissa Harrison, Guardian Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2016-11-02
ePub
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