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Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss… They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids’ pets, their football teams and – this being Ireland in 2011–12 –about the euro, the crash, the presidential election,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-01
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Happy Valley is Patrick White’s first novel, published in London in 1939 when White was twenty-seven. It was praised by, among others, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen, and won the Australian Literature Gold Medal in 1941, but, fearing that he had libelled one of the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-01
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At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-01
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-11-01
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A beautiful, beguiling novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers'A lovely book . . . wise at heart and filled with colourful characters' Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatA compelling story of darkness and light, of traumatic loss and second...
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Penguin
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2012-11-01
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Swati Varma is one of modern Delhi's more blessed inhabitants. But then one brilliant morning when the world seemed cleansed by the coming of the rains, the unthinkable happens: his pregnant wife is killed in a road accident. Devastated,Swati makes a pilgrimage back to...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-10-31
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZEUma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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On paper, Bruce Gold seems to have carved a comfortable niche for himself. But in the flesh, he's not so impressive. His ancient father thinks he's a fool, his children fail to notice him and even his wife doesn't realise he's no longer living with her. Gold's been...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz.Their cohabitation produces inescapable, dangerous emotional energy, contained within two rooms. Annabel...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.A compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive loveYves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering MiamiAs the police boat speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho’s great...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-25
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.By turns comic and tragic, The Flea...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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For Robert Jacklin - packed off without warning to boarding school in Zimbabwe - everything is terrifyingly new. Branded an outsider from the moment he opens his mouth and unable to decode the subtle power struggles of the classroom, he longs for the safety of his old...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-18
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From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy in Victorian London.London, 1882. David Wildeblood, an idealistic young journalist, pounds the streets of Camden reporting on the notorious...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-04
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The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris.The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-04
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The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris.The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-04
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George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-09-30
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'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, and it hit him in the head. This is Chaplinesque, right? People start to laugh when I tell them-'As Jay Berman lingers in a coma, his...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2012-09-30
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