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'A writer innately drawn to paradox, and to the moral questions inherent in the relationships between richness and poverty, mind and body, history and imagination' Ali Smith'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal'One of our era's central...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-04-13
Collection :
W&N Essentials
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'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-04-01
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'Profoundly imagined characters, spiced with the off-kilter and deliciously mad . . . a work of great empathy and imagination' THE IRISH TIMESThe season's just begun at Seacliff Caravan Park, but none of the residents are having a good time. Frankie is haunted by his...
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Transworld Digital
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2021-04-01
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Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-03-25
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.In the vast...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-03-25
Collection :
Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.Over our way lies...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-03-25
Collection :
Caribbean Contemporary Classics
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The stories of Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne paved the way for modern science fiction, fantasy and horror. Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories is a wonderful collection of excerpts and short stories from some of the genre's greatest writers. This is...
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Gateway
Parution :
2020-12-15
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Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction...
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Virago
Parution :
2020-11-26
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When a desk clerk welcomes a group of tourists into his mysterious and crumbling hotel, the last thing he ever expected was that one girl on the tour might hold the power to unravel the hidden mystery that lies in its walls.The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed...
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Gateway
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2020-11-12
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'Perfect, feel-good fiction' Sarah Morgan on The Lemon SistersIf you love Holly Martin, Jill Mansell and Debbie Macomber, you'll LOVE Jill Shalvis and her irresistible trademark gift for humour, warmth and romance!Jill's books are guaranteed to make you smile:'You can't...
Editeur :
Headline Eternal
Parution :
2020-11-10
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O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2020-10-01
Collection :
The Penguin English Library
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Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction“A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2020-08-11
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREArm, an ex-boxer with a haunted past and a fractured present, finds himself the tool of the notorious Devers family. But when an opportunity to break free and offer his family a new life arises, his actions can’t be without consequence. First...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-07-09
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Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew with a long, white beard reluctantly works as a department store Santa Claus...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-06-25
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Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. When the government is...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-06-25
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'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.'
F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, appeared in 1920 on the heels of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, and immediately established him as a master of popular fiction.
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Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-28
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'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.'
F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, appeared in 1920 on the heels of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, and immediately established him as a master of popular fiction.
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Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-28
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This riverrun edition of Turgenev's most accomplished stories contains A Nest of Gentlefolk, A Quiet Backwater, First Love, and A Lear of the Steppes - the defining masterpieces of his career. Justly celebrated as a novelist, playwright, and poet, these stories...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2020-04-16
Collection :
riverrun editions
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'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday TimesHumour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances, accumulating losses, moments of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-04-02
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A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past.A triumphant celebration ends in murder.A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death.Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2020-02-06
Collection :
riverrun editions
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