A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a masterful collection...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-02-09

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Light Lifting is a suite of darkly urban, unflinching elegies. The seven stories each encompass a keenly observed, immersive world, rooted firmly in the real life of work and family. They are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-02

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_________________‘Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.’ AJ PEARCE_________________A young journalist and her top-secret assignment. An exclusive straight to...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-02-02

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From bestselling novelist Marie Joseph - a collection of heartwarming, life-enhancing stories that show her at her very best.In them Marie Joseph explores the many aspects of love as it was in the sixties and seventies - its nostalgia, tenderness, pitfalls and moments...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-01-31

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From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Phaithoon Thanya or Chatcharin Chaiwat, eleven of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2011.as if it began with the rain – JADET KAMJORNDETLanta, Carrie May...

Editeur : Thaifiction Publishing
Parution : 2012-01-27
Collection : ThaiFiction
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'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' MetroA beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-01-05

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A hotshot young lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the aid of his irresponsible kid brother, only to realise he's a pawn in a treacherous scheme. A lonely professor, frequently regaled with outrageous tales by the office handyman, suddenly fears...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-01-05

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Beyond the Blue Mountains is a collection of short stories by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.The fourteen warmly humorous stories inBeyond the Blue Mountains range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-12-29

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Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-12-20

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Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-12-15

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CHOCK-A-BLOCK FULL OF CLASSIC AUSTRALIAN YARNS, JOKES AND NONSENSE Ryle Winn is the master of the cock and bull tale, and this is a collection of the funniest yarns he's ever heard. There's something for everyone life-of-the-party jokes, rib-tickling pub stories and...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2011-11-23

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Janice and Merrill, two widows, converse about their departed husbands over breakfast. Fond memories of their spouses are recounted, but it is in what they leave unsaid that they find the greater sustenance.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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Christopher's early declaration that he has known his parents all his life is shown to be misguided. Following the widowing of one of their associates, and the emergence of their latter day estrangement, he realises he must re-evaluate the history of his parents'...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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On a post-clubbing Sunday morning, a series of misfortunes aggravate Sarah's hangover. She must deal with last night's insistent and overly attentive partner, a run-in with an old lover and, most jarringly, the re-emergence of a painfully disabling toothache. Part of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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With her husband descending into the advanced stages of dementia, Vivian discovers that reading from his favourite cookery books can call forth a temporary alleviation and a flash of happiness. But her husband's fading memory compromises her own recollections and brings...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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In 'Bark', Jeanne-Etiene Delacour takes pleasure in the avoidance of any threat to his longevity. Formerly a gourmand and a gambler but now an ascetic, his fastidious new lifestyle is the result of an investment in a public works project - one which holds the promise of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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One mother's last trip to see her son on death row.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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In 'A Place in the Sun', Platinum is the beach everyone aspires to be on - the exclusive Beach of Beaches. Only the most beautiful bodies are permitted to enter. The old, the plain and the overweight have to accept that they will never be allowed in, in spite of all the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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Raymond Wilson Butler, a director and writer down on his luck, is struggling to write a biography of his hero, the late filmmaker Halliday. He conducts a series of interviews with his widow Yolanda, an overweight woman living alone in the desert in Arizona with a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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Three young women - competitive, bitchy and moneyed - have lunch together at their favourite Korean restaurant every Friday. When the friendly chef from the restaurant moves into the same building as one of the girls, she strikes up a friendship with him. But the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-17

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