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'A moving and intelligent comedy about finding love without losing yourself.' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie ProjectGrace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (920). The number of poppy seeds on...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-04-12
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Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-04-05
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When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice.The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-04-05
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Meet the Metrostanis, three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the-millennium: AC, a gangsta rap spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun deejay from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wide-eyed, off-the-boat kid, searching for himself and the...
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Penguin
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2012-04-05
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Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him...
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Penguin
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2012-04-05
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The Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has come here from far away, hoping to forget. Instead, he remembers: home, war, lost...
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Penguin
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2012-04-05
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Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the 'A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screen writer, drops in on the way to Los...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-03-31
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Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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'In case you had not noticed,' writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics, 'in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR. I am not writing anything so limited.'In this epic miniature, therefore, Politics tells the story of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son, Ralph, and their maid, Winnie. Struggling to keep herself, her lodgers, and her son going as every day...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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When Mona Gray is ten, her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona, who removes herself from anything - or anyone - that might bring her happiness. Numbers provide a kind of solace, and help her...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-03-29
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I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.' So begins THE VIRGIN CURE, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in 1871. As a young child, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked...
Editeur :
Orion
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2012-03-05
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It begins on a quiet city street. A young woman is robbed, with the crime witnessed by a man holding a camera. In the aftermath, victim and voyeur meet.It ends six months later, by which point both their lives - and the way they choose to live them - have changed...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2012-03-01
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WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones, author of Mister PipA Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-03-01
ePub
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'An extraordinary and peculiarly haunting novel' Chris Cleave, author of The Other HandA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK My name is Judith McPherson. I am ten years old. On Monday a miracle happened.Judith doesn’t have much. The house she shares with her devoutly...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-03-01
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'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-03-01
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A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-29
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Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-29
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When Donna, Will and Gayle find Frank Chapman lying bruised and battered on the ground on Clapham Common, they feel drawn to help the old man. A connection is forged between the four of them that threatens to upset the careful balance of their lives...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-29
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Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temporary, and youthful memories of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-02-29
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