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This collection combines stories from his previous books THE SILVER AGE and THREE EVENINGS. In these stories James Lasdun views greed and excess from illuminating angles and the impulse of those who own too much to dispossess themselves. He examines the callousness by...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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A vintage collection of short stories set in the heart of Dublin, from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.'A master storyteller' Marian Keyes‘A brilliant writer’ Jilly Cooper------------------A society hostess entertains her husband's...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-09-30
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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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A vintage collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.'A master storyteller' Marian Keyes‘A brilliant writer’ Jilly Cooper------------------Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-09-30
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In this second collection of sexy secrets as told to hostess Madame B, we discover a world of delicious and dangerous delights. No fantasy is too extreme, no indulgence or scenario off limits.Velvet Underground - an everyday Tube journey takes an erotic turn for a young...
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Ebury Digital
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2010-09-30
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Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master.A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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"[A] remarkable collection . . . Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find." —People The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle’s world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into—and then get out...
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Algonquin Books
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2010-09-14
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John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelistJohn Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-07
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Imagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting home. How would your fame help you then?What would happen if someone got hold of...
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Riverrun
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2010-09-02
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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-31
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' ...
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Penguin
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2010-08-05
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Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny town in Southern Ohio.The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-07-31
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Tantalising and seductive short stories from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Strawberry Thief... Perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson and Kate Mosse as well as readers of Eve Chase and Stacey Halls.'Evocative, mystical and funny - perfect for curling up on the...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-07-06
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Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous...
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Penguin
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2010-07-01
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Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-06-30
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Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam' and 'The Kiss' A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a...
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E-Penguin
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2010-06-28
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SOONER OR LATER THE DEAD CATCH UP....'A true spine-tingler...will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams' HARLAN COBEN'Wild, mesmerizing...a Valentine from hell' NEW YORK TIMESJudas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual,...
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Headline
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2010-06-10
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Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-05-27
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In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; the even...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2010-05-25
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