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John Taylor, an accountant, has been deserted by his wife, Stella, after three years of marriage. He struggles to make sense of his life. At a concert he meets his old music master, Michael Alexander, whose son Sebastian, an international cello virtuoso, is the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-02-26
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John Worth is an artist - not a Bohemian, but a stubborn and self-disciplined man. Friends and colleagues try to influence his work - his mistress wants him to introduce more political themes and his dealer urges him towards fugurative painting. But Worth, though...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-02-26
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Imagine a world where everyone is born with a 'skin' name. Without skin you cannot learn, you are not permitted to marry, and you grow up an outsider amongst your own people.
This is no future dystopia. This is Celtic Britain.
It is AD 43. For the Caer Cad, 'skin'...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-02-25
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'Writing that easily equals that of the Booker-winning Richard Flanagan...[and] as readable and gripping as any thriller.' - The TimesI've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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‘If you liked Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this’ Metro‘Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project’ Sydney Morning HeraldMillie Bird is seven-years-old. On a shopping trip with her mum,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-01-29
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**Ebook edition featuring exclusive extra reading material** Barcelona, Summer 2003.Three women are sacrificed to an unknown purpose, skin carved with a cryptic alphabet, tongues cut from their mouths. Sent beautiful, sinister letters - clues, or confessions? -...
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Riverrun
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2015-01-29
Collection :
The Serpent Papers Trilogy
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The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersFamily secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish familyIn the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, the daughter of an impecunious clergyman, arrives at...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersA brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetime In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor - a powerful and moving novel from one of the world's finest writersAfter nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce,Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersWhat chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman?47-year-old widow, Julia, is about to remarry, much to the delight and relief of her...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersThe probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dublin hotelWhat was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility’ Sunday TimesOne day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-01-22
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Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction. Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister omens. Count Guillaume of Touron sets out on a crusade to Jerusalem and on the way he serves his God by killing any Jews he meets. But will the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2015-01-22
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Venezuela and Italy, villages and prisons, forests and whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories which reflect the people and the places that have informed this wonderful writer's work. Antonio Mezzano in Umbria, the blind man who gathers village gossip in...
Editeur :
Virago
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2015-01-15
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'A quietly incisive book that opens wounds where none were known' Irish IndependentSally, a successful actress, returns to her house in Goatstown from a European tour, just wanting to rest and to see her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's leaving...
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Tinder Press
Parution :
2015-01-08
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'With masterful control, Johnston excavates a well of memory and hurt, quietly demonstrating the damage that can be done by families' The TimesA beautifully crafted Irish novel of loss and yearning...Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty...
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Tinder Press
Parution :
2015-01-08
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A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed.For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the...
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Penguin
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2015-01-01
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A beautifully paced novel of solitude, healing and hope...On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man out walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their first chance encounter...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2014-12-18
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An exquisite, poignant story of an Irish boyhood in the 1970sDerry in the 1970s: teenager Joe Logan is growing up in the teeth of the Troubles, having to cope with embittered parents, a brother who's been away and come back with money and a gun in his pocket, and the...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2014-12-18
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THE QUIET WOMAN stitches together a horrifyingly plausable near-future dystopian Britain and a typically Priestian account of an individual lost in the blurred boundaries between the real and the imagined. It is a novel that bears comparison with the work of Kazuo...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2014-12-11
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