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Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between. We shift from a diary chronicling the dangers of life as a woman in the bleak 2040s, to two students falling in love...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-06
ePub
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The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime.The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-05-06
ePub
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Soldier, pimp or artist? What is Rart’s real nature? Is history repeating itself? By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers, a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguities that can be read at many levels....
Editeur :
Thaifiction Publishing
Parution :
2010-05-01
Collection :
ThaiFiction
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If there is a thread running through Simon Robson's brilliant collection of stories it is the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, of adult consciousness from the vividness of childhood.His protagonists are often unlikely...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
ePub
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Quickies - a collection of bestselling short, sexy erotica from Black LaceSome girls strip away more than inhibitions to get what they need ...After work, Laura knows no restraint when it comes to restraint ...Sometimes pick-up trucks contain the sexiest loads...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
ePub
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Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-01
ePub
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In the third volume of Madame B's saucy tales our intriguing hostess tells all. Ten women confess their stories of seduction, revealing their most intimate and devilish desires and steamy sexual encounters. Jet - a young woman finds herself joining a very exclusive club...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2010-03-30
ePub
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In this fourth collection of sexy tales told to hostess Madame B, ten women reveal all to our mysterious host. Nothing is out of bounds and passion is pushed to its very limit. Midas - long-distance love with a twist, as a lover's gift ensures his partner can still...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2010-03-30
ePub
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Max might be a lot older than Elizabeth, but this just makes her fantasise about him all the more. When he invites her to see his collection of birds of prey, the thrilling display of a falcon's flight isn't all he has in store for her. Elizabeth is about to live out...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2010-03-24
ePub
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A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself amidst a media frenzy; a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio;...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2010-03-18
ePub
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Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love.'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lame, it smells like a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-03-04
ePub
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In Short People, we encounter, among many others, Jason and Billy, best friends who discover by the age of six how to conquer the world, only to see this idyll then shatter before them; Shawn, whose baptism compels him to make life a holy hell for everyone around him;...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-02-23
ePub
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In this dazzling collection, Susan Irvine takes the reader into the creative mind. From Concept I, in which an artist presents her son as a work of art for the Turner Prize, to a Hoxton novelist who outsources the production of 'his' prose to a fabulator, to a stylist...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2010-02-04
ePub
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Discover love and desire from around the globeA marriage splinters during a game of mah jong A depressed fiancée is lifted by a mid-air encounter with a Hollywood legend A mountain keeper watches over a lonely temple but is perturbed when, finally, a visitor dares to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-01-26
ePub
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Real life and fiction meet as Angelica Garnett vividly evokes what it is to grow up in the shadow of artists. Her family appear in different guises in the stories, but at the centre of each one is Garnett herself. She is naïve and foolish as Bettina, desperately seeking...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-01-14
ePub
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In Someone Like You are fifteen classic tales told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Here, in Roald Dahl's first collection of his world famous dark and sinister adult stories, a wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-12-07
ePub
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A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredientsIn Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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