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Wes Anderson's Major Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend and Asa Jennings set for release October 2023!-------------- In The...
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Penguin
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2011-10-27
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How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short stories that twist and inspire the imagination Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through its many imitators the form is once...
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Penguin
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2011-10-27
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Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet; an...
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Sceptre
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2011-10-06
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Men hammered at phones as the lines burned their hands; distributor caps split, engines flashed into flame as gasoline from torn lines doused their blocks; computers rebelled, barraged their operators with lunatic results. An army of poltergeists was loose, ripping and...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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The latest stunning collection of short stories, including the winning entry of the 2011 Asham Short Stories Award, which was set up 1995 to encourage and promote new writing. It is the only short story competition whose winners and runners-up are published alongside...
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Virago
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2011-09-01
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'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER.A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-09-01
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PENGUIN BRINGS YOU THE FINEST SHORT STORIES BY THE GREATEST WRITERS 'The short story is enjoying a revival all the more encouraging when viewed against the gloom surrounding the future of the literary novel . . .'Fifteen further short stories from the golden age of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-08-04
Collection :
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
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These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, they are all concerned with the complexities and...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-07-31
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural 'Taibele and Her Demon' to...
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Penguin
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2011-07-28
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A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house.An old man grumbles to his daughter...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-07-14
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Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection shows her to be a leading practitioner of the art of the short story, presenting her complete short fiction for the first time in a single volume,...
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Penguin
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2011-06-30
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A young school boy visiting his aunt's country house finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness.A young country girl fights against becoming a downtrodden...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-06-27
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Intense love stories, espionnage tales, horror narratives and thrillers in all shades of black, but all dominated by striking sex and sensuality: Jakubowski at his dangerous best.Once described as 'the King of the Erotic Thriller', Maxim Jakubowski is also known as one...
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Headline Accent
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2011-06-23
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Maxim Jakubowski demonstrates with quiet elegance how varied erotic writing can be at its best, with six outstanding tales about men and women and the ties that bind their bodies in minds in ever so subtle ways, between the sheets, behind the words.Six uncollected short...
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Headline Accent
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2011-06-23
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Maxim Jakubowski takes the reader through an intoxicating journey through four of the world's most exciting cities: New York, Dublin, Paris and London. Known for his daring and sexy tales of men and women in love and lust and once described by both The Times and Time...
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Headline Accent
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2011-06-23
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The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of...
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Penguin
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2011-06-02
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A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestseller.John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and inA Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing.From the killing fields of...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-05-31
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Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
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2011-05-31
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A CONTROVERSIAL ODYSSEY OF PORNOGRAPHY, CRIME AND LUST.Maxim Jakubowski's dangerous and erotic stories tell of war between the sexes. Interlinked themes and characters run through the nine stories as the work comes together, episode by episode, before reaching a bloody...
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Headline Accent
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2011-05-26
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Unsafe Attachments explores the relationships of a loosely interlinked group of Londoners. Caught off guard at key points, they face moments of sudden temptation in their busy, established lives, as well as increasingly difficult choices. Dinah, harried and pregnant, is...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-05-10
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