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AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.In the wake of a...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Picture two people, young and in love.Picture them being separated from one another.Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2013-03-28
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern Asia In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-03-28
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-22
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-21
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Four women set off on journeys that will bring their lives into startling alignment, in ways that will transform them for ever.Dana is a beautiful young bodyguard who has the expertise to disarm a bomb but cannot commit to marrying the man she loves. Jessica is a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-03-14
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If you love the BBC's The White Queen you'll love this.Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII in Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel, Queen's Gambit...My name is Katherine Parr.I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed.I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-03-14
Collection :
The Tudor Trilogy
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'I am the wolf, taker of life: the predator. I attack with my eyes open and see death bright and fierce leap in the glance of my prey'In a bleak winter landscape a wolf is starved and weakening. He is the predator, but the harshness of nature, the death that stalks all...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-03-08
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From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph).After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David, the boy, has lost his mother and Simón vows to look after...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-03-07
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The Infatuations is a metaphysical murder mystery and a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marías, the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and Your Face Tomorrow.Every day, María Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-03-07
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From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this time set in a run-down B&B in Wales…When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-02-22
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It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and that evening a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive. At the local mansion, its new hospital...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2013-02-14
ePub
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers. The path from his...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2013-02-07
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In Jerusalem, two Arabs are on the hunt for the same identity. The first is a wealthy lawyer with a thriving practice, a large house, a Mercedes and a beautiful family. With a sophisticated image to uphold, he decides one evening to buy a second-hand Tolstoy novel...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-02-07
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It’s 24 December, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet – half-cut and suicidal – sits on a stationary train at King’s Cross waiting to depart. In his lap is a bag containing his remaining worldly goods: an empty bottle of red wine, a few books, a handful of...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-02-07
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Brilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now.Lying in her hospital bed, broken, burned and scared, Calamity still believes that Aunty loved her. For as long as...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-02-07
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Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike's most beloved characters.Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-02-07
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New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the KingIn a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-02-07
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*Perfect for fans of A BOY MADE OF BLOCKS***RICHARD AND JUDY summer bookclub read 2013, Amazon Rising star, and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize***** A funny and touching story of an unlikely friendship and an improbable journey***Alex Woods knows that he...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-01-31
ePub
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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2013-01-31
ePub
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