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The Angry Young Men movement, featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis, is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton.The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-09-25
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Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novelsAt Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in...
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Penguin
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2014-09-25
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I was winning untilI met your gaze... Gambling at the roulette tables of the Kursaal, Gwendolen Harleth glances up to meet Daniel Deronda's arresting stare. Striking, selfish and wilful, she is at that moment the mistress of her destiny. Years later, the flawed heroine...
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Riverrun
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2014-09-25
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Two men meet for a pint – or two – in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell… In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle’s drinkers ponder:- a topless Kate Middleton- Barack and Michelle Obama (‘fuckin’...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-09-11
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A novel from the Booker-Prize winning author Stanley Middleton. Rejacked and reissued in Windmill.Mary and David Blackwell are content in their marriage but when Mary, a talented opera singer, is offered the chance to sing in America, everything changes. David, a music...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-09-11
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From Booker-Prize winning novelist Stanley Middleton. Thomas Harris is on the cusp of success as a classical composer with a growing reputation.When his father, a coal miner, dies Thomas decides to write a requiem for him which is also a thinly veiled attack on the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-09-11
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From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Middleton's Booker Prize win.One winter evening Alistair Murray opens his door to Eleanor Franks, a woman he has not seen for decades. A man apparently...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-09-11
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Eve is putting her life together again. Her partner has walked out on her. She's moved into a tiny flat on the outskirts of Dublin. She has no job. But she does have her beloved baby daughter - and there's a little playground across the street. It's a tired spot for...
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Riverrun
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-09-04
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Shark by Will Self - the eagerly anticipated new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella4 May 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be lying in...
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Penguin
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2014-09-04
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Matthew Price and Peter Owen both have their roots within the borders of Wales. Together they decide to build a new town, Manod, in the depopulated valleys of South Wales. Seemingly a splendid idea, and yet a world of plotting, scheming and resistance lies in store.
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-08-30
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A cult classic by an award-winning novelist, The Man Who Travelled on Motorways is the first novel to exploit the mystique of motorway travel - the realities, unrealities and fantasies that take over the mind of the long-distance driver.The night drives between...
Editeur :
Arcadia
Parution :
2014-08-28
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The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis is a searing novel about a man whose principles are tested to the utmost extremes'Impressive . . . alive to how reversals of fortune change individuals' Sunday TimesIn a small crumbling resort in the Crimea, two men meet after many years...
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Penguin
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2014-08-28
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‘I never think of Laura as my step-sister, but that’s what she is.’Once they were the best of friends, inseparable as only teenage girls can be.That is until Miffy’s Jewish father runs off with Laura’s Catholic mother and both of their families imploded – as well as...
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Ebury Digital
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2014-08-28
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I sat before my tambour hoop butI did not sew.I thought of split lips, flying teeth and red blood on white linen.Born in a Bristol brothel at the end of the eighteenth century, Ruth Webber, her toe upon the scratch, is ready to face all comers.Lady Charlotte Sinclair,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-08-28
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"Intense, riotous, funny, sexy and thrilling . . . Renberg is a great writer" MATT HAIG"An exceptional novel . . . majestic page-turner" KARL OVE KNAUSGAARDPal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his...
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Arcadia Books
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2014-08-15
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The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including reading group notes.Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-07-31
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Tripoli, 1960s. During the years in which post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling greed of the West, Michele Balistreri suffered a succession of blows that would scar him for life. The death of his mother; the unspeakable horror that befell his best friend's...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2014-07-31
Collection :
Commissario Balistreri Trilogy
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Lord Loveall, heretofore heirless lord of the sprawling Love Hall, is the richest man in England. He arrives home one morning with a most unusual package - a baby that he presents as the inheritor to the family name and fortune. In honor of his beloved sister, who died...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-07-31
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Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the government. Now he faces resistance from the diplomatic service who...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-07-17
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