They thought they'd be friends forever, until a tragic accident drove them apart. Now, seventeen years later, five friends meet again, and are forced to face up to the secrets of the pastJen, Andrew, Lilah, Natalie and Dan were inseparable at university, but in the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-09-12

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Hailed as a masterpiece, Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, is a modern classic. Here, in Enon, Harding follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby as he tries to come to terms with a shattering personal tragedy. Grandson of George Crosby (the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-09-05

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Justin Quinn's Mount Merrion: a gripping family story spanning half a century, in the mould of Jonathan Franzen and John Lanchester.Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into prosperous families, educated at Dublin's finest schools, dwellers in a fine...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-09-05

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Reminiscent of her classic story 'The Lottery', Jackson's disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life.'Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-09-05

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'Vivid and beautiful . . . Astonishing' - Guardian'A thrilling journey through an age of ice and stone - one of Kim Stanley Robinson's best!' - Greg BearAn award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting...

Editeur : Orbit UK
Parution : 2013-09-03

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Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-08-31

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For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS is an exceptional debut about the awakening of a young widow and 'carries a considerable erotic charge, but there's much more to it besides: grief is Amy Grace Loyd's subject and her narrative is as...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-08-29

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'Utterly compelling...I couldn't put the book down' Observer'Surprising and dark and excellent' New York Times'A gripping and sophisticated thriller' IndependentSoon to be a major film adaptation starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes David and Jo Henniger are on...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-08-23

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For all who have longed for Mr. Rochester with Jane Eyre or imagined themselves out on the moors with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, here are each of the novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontëacked into one pocket-sized tome. Enjoy them in small bites or devour...

Editeur : RP Minis
Parution : 2013-08-13
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The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interralated stories, running from lyrical romance to scabrous satire, by...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-08-08

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This intimate and compelling historical novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after Charles I's execution, the young Deller joins a political group too radical even for the Roundheads; ten years later,...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-08-08

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ARTS AND WONDERS spans a glorious canvas, peopled by werewolves, thieves, emperors, travelling players and a forger dwarf who takes a lifetime to learn the danger of illusions.Tomasso Grilli, a dwarf gifted with an extraordinary capacity for artistic forgery (and...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2013-08-08

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It hasn't rained in a hundred days, it's hotter than Beelzebub's oven, and the ground is harder than a castiron skillet. The good folks of Ebb, Nebraska, could surely use a miracle. Lifelong residents are fleeing, and the town is on the verge of collapse....

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2013-08-02

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THE INSPIRATION FORTHE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM'A wonderful, touching story that reminds us to live life to its fullest.' Cecelia Ahern, New York Times bestselling author of P.S., I Love YouBrett's Life List1. Go to Paris2. Perform live, on a super big stage3. Have a baby,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2013-08-01

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Carnival is a new novel from IMPAC Literary Award winner Rawi Hage.WINNER OF THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTIONThere are two types of taxi driver in theCarnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-08-01

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De Niro's Game is the stunning winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the very first novel by up-and-coming Lebanese literary star Rawi Hage, also author of Cockroach.Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-08-01

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‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-31

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Yannis Loukas is editing his father's autobiography. Going through the family archives, he discovers the manuscript of an aspiring novelist named Loukas Matthaiou. While reading it,Yannis feels as if someone has put to paper his innermost thoughts. But who was the...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-07-25

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* It is the final weeks of World War Two and the Japanese forces are in retreat. Young Spitfire pilot, Edward Strickland is based in the South Pacific. His task is to search and destroy any remnants of the once mighty Imperial Army. During a dawn patrol he is forced to...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2013-07-15

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The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-07-05

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