'A tremendous novel that combines powerfully moving moments with hilarious satire' Daily Mail'Eva Thorvald is the new Olive Kitteridge' Elisabeth Egan'Kitchens of the Great Midwest is terrific' Jane Smiley, GuardianHave you met Eva Thorvald?To her father, a chef, she's...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2015-07-28

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The second novel from Melissa Bailey, author ofThe Medici Mirror. Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine.One summer's day, Freya's husband and son vanish at sea.A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper's cottage on a remote Hebridean...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2015-07-16

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Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017A finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeMy sister Silência was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting our village for some weeks now…When Mariamar Mpepe’s sister is killed...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-07-10

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Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list.Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-07-02

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The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind is dark and haunting tale from the author of the bestselling Perfume - now available in ebook for the first timeSet in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe,The Pigeon tells the story of a day in the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-06-25

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Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-06-24

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In the sweltering heat of one summer in Grinnell, Iowa, Claire and Don Lowry discover that married life can fall apart seemingly overnight. Don, the town's most successful real-estate agent, is hiding the fact that their home is in foreclosure from his wife, Claire. She...

Editeur : Blackfriars
Parution : 2015-06-16

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATTWhen eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-06-11

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Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-06-11

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In 1914 they had been eleven years old; three little girls at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two – Clare, now established with a successful business, and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-06-11

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'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-06-11

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With this free, ebook-only extract, sample the haunting world of Ilka Tampke's debut SKIN, coming in August 2015. Also contains special extra material from the author.Celtic Britain, AD 28. Every seven years, the people of Durotriga unite at the Gathering to perform a...

Editeur : Hodderscape
Parution : 2015-06-04

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'A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real.' - The Times 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-06-04

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Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28

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An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28

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Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28

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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28

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Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and SummertimeIt opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-05-28

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This book collects all of Henry Roth's published writings, other than Call it Sleep, Mercy of a Rude Stream and A Diving Rock on the Hudson, into one major body of work, spanning a period that beings in 1925 and ends in 1987. The thirty-one pieces include all of Roth's...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-05-28

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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-05-28

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