WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . .Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-19

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Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-05

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014'Both devastating and funny in its well-chosen detail . . . Highly recommended' Daily Mail'As astute in her observations of contemporary culture as she is in capturing the minutiae of longing, disappointment and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-05

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'Families are toxic...' Thanksgiving, New England, and writer Cynthia has been persuaded by elder sister Frances to come and visit for the autumn holiday. Cynthia is reluctant to join in this family reunion because she'd rather not see their long-estranged father. Yet...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-05

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Last year the rain went away. It became very dry; there was no water and the sun killed the crops of my father. Leaving the kraal and misty Valley of a Thousand Hills, Kenon has come to Port Benjamin in search of work. In Johan he finds a master and a friend. For a time...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-30

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Volume 3 contains novels seven to nine of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-11-30
Collection : A Dance to the Music of Time
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Volume 4 contains novels ten to twelve of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-11-30
Collection : A Dance to the Music of Time
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_________________________Collects the first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLDAnthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-11-30
Collection : A Dance to the Music of Time
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Volume 2 contains novels four, five and six of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-11-30
Collection : A Dance to the Music of Time
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Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-28

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To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi - her landmark 84th birthday - three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2013-11-14

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Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts - some are criminals in society’s eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit - the bedsit; the cruisers’ pub - lie cheek by jowl with the worlds of the affluent and successful - the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-11-14
Collection : The London Trilogy
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Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith.'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-07

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A delightful series of short stories, providing a composite portrait of women and how the worlds they inhabit have changed over the past 50 years. No longer satisfied with marriage being their only socially acceptable destiny, these women relish their new freedom. From...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Not every death is a tragedy.Not every silver lining is intact. Annie's father is dead. She isn't sorry. A rich and domineering man, he was always more passionate about money than the happiness of his wife and child. And when his lovely, fragile wife Jude died in...

Editeur : Tinder Press
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Joshua and Natalie share a vexed five-year history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, spliced with sad intimations of true love. Natalie is attempting to start a new life in Manchester, but whenJoshua calls unexpectedly and asks her to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar. Cut off from her family, and from Tony, her carefree ex, she forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Ralph Ernest Gorse, the suave but utterly heartless anti-hero of Patrick Hamilton's classic The West Pier, is here revisited by Z-Cars creator Allan Prior in the novelisation of his acclaimed 1987 television serial of the same name. In the late 1930s, the womanising...

Editeur : Mulholland Books
Parution : 2013-10-24

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