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Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. Pain, in love and...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-10-03
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROMTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHORSHORTLISTED FORTHE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has...
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Penguin
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2024-09-10
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"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories" Shelby Van Pelt, bestselling author of Remarkably Bright CreaturesIs three days with a cat enough to change your life?The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-09-05
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The perfect gift for cat-lovers!! For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning heartwarming sensation.____________A cat a day keeps the doctor away ...On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-09-05
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War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then,...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-09-05
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Desperate for survival in the rude city, Rita is fortunate to get hired as a household help by a retired diplomat. At that moment, Arijit Basu does not know that she is an undocumented migrant. Convulsed by a marauding tide of events, the two are reduced to wrecks....
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Hachette India
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2024-09-05
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When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead.More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-09-05
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROMTHE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-08-22
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'Has a queasily compelling power' The Times'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty' Rebecca StottSissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West...
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Virago
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2024-08-08
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From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-AknerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024A...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2024-08-01
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'Built on simmering tensions at the precipice of boiling over . . . vivid storytelling' VOGUE'An intimate, pitch-perfect fable of the time' YRSA DALEY-WARD'Sensual, detail-rich, utterly immersive . . . So propulsive and atmospheric' JENNY MUSTARD***BEHIND THIS GLASS,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-07-11
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'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2024-07-09
ePub
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"Absolutely captivating" ANDREA CAMILLERI"Monumental" GuardianDrawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-07-04
ePub
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*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*Eliete is forty (-something) Eliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years Eliete has an average career as an average estate agent Eliete has a completely normal life Eliete has reached breaking-point Eliete is stuck in...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2024-06-06
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'Kafka himself would love it' The i'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail'Glorious' Harper's BazaarA collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka What happens when...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2024-05-30
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A mesmeric portrait of a decades-long marriage, wrapped in a powerful family mystery - for fans of ELIZABETH STROUT and BARBARA KINGSOLVER'A darker, gruffer Elizabeth Strout' The Times'Sarah Leipciger is a consummate storyteller' Rachel Joyce'Tough, tender, wonderful'...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2024-05-16
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'The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed'Continuing the adventures of the March sisters from Little Women, Little Men follows the story of spirited, determined Jo, now...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-05-02
ePub
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As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home – Male...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-05-01
ePub
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This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby.This is the story of his place in the Cévennes house where he was born, overlooked by...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-04-11
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'This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us lived to tell the tale", and if this subtle book has a message, it is how alien and...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2024-04-04
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