Life in general is getting in the way of Pam, Maggie, Ellie and Toni losing weight. And the men aren't helping either. There's an ex-husband who suddenly wants his children; a rich, powerful playboy who has everything, including a wife at home; a boyfriend who has...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Former foreign correspondent Charles Mortimer is all washed up, living a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan, wondering how things could have gone so wrong for him. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, when he was a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Liverpool, 1958, and German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Mersyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their doomed love...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal. Just as she contemplates leaving him, she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. As she grapples with this news, she learns that her loathed father has killed himself. Left confused and bereft by...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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'The more I knew of Haffner,' writes Adam Thirlwell in The Escape, 'the more real he became, this was true. And, simultaneously, Haffner disappeared.'In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking a cure, more women,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing. While Barrie, the local mayor, is driven into the arms of tough single mother Debbie, his father lusts after a former chorus girl...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on earth. It is a journey which may...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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From Colm Tóibín comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Tóibín not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and their...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-02-23

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Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever published? Nowadays, there are so many books: how can anyone be well read anymore? Well, help is at hand. Let Henry Hitchings educate you in the invaluable skill of literary bluffing in this...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-02-16

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Discover the Sunday Times bestselling novel that inspired the beloved film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The book that inspired the box office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-16

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Death In Summer - a beautiful and haunting novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor'Possibly the most perfect of Trevor's novels . . . Astonishing' Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThere were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, sudden and quite unexpected,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-02-09

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Harris Anwar is a British Pakistani proud of his Eastern heritage. In fact, it's fair to say he's proud, full stop: proud he installed his own central heating; proud of his swanky blue Citroën; even proud he's owned the same Hoover for over twenty years.The only thing...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2012-02-02

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A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past.Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Moon is the tragic account...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-02

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Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-01-31

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Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead' Hilary MantelAt the heart of this novel lies the fictional village...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-01-31

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A time to escapeTwelve-year-old Owen Brand and his family move to Middlecross, a riverside town in rural Canada, hoping to leave poverty and unhappiness behind.A time for innocenceOwen meets three local boys, and they soon form an inseparable band. Over the summer...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2012-01-19

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‘I think I have found the way to talk to her in the present. The past takes too much language.’So much is taken for granted in a long marriage, so much is relied upon, resented, and never spoken of. When Anna begins to mangle her sentences as a result of a brain...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-01-05

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Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he half believes it....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-01-05

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Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-12-31

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