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'A novel that is brilliant enough to raise itself effortlessly above and beyond the level of the vices it portrays: strange art and reckless passion, cocaine, excessive exercise and other forms of addiction' - Fabienne Dum, Le MondeRímini splits up with his girlfriend...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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Andre Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars, is a journalist working for Pravda in 1937. War in Europe is already underway and Szara is co-opted to join the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence agency. He does his best to survive the tango of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-08-25
ePub
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The sequel to THE WORLD AT NIGHT featuring Jean CassonSet in the underworld of Paris in 1941. Reluctant spy Jean Casson returns to occupied Paris under a new identity. He is wanted by the Gestapo therefore must stay away from the civilised circles he knew as a film...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-08-25
ePub
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Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he really pull it off? Could he be that sure, could he count on being that lucky? Listen...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2011-08-25
ePub
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In Push Sapphire told the story of Precious Jones and in 2009 her book was adapted into the Oscar-winning film Precious. The Kid is Sapphire's heartbreaking sequel to Push.Abdul is nine years old when his mother dies. Parentless, he is sent to a foster home and then to...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-08-25
ePub
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Crime's a man's business. So they say. Who was that small figure then, slender enough to trot along the moonlit track, swift and low, virtually invisible? Who was it that covered the green signal with a glove to stop the train, while the two others took care of the...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2011-08-18
ePub
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A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name – and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2011-08-18
ePub
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In this USA Today bestselling debut novel, Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms.As a veterinarian, Helena was required to choose when to end the lives of...
Editeur :
Center Street
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2011-08-04
ePub
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Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-08-04
ePub
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Gods Without Men is Hari Kunzru's epic novel of intertwined lives and a vast expanse of American desert.In the Californian desert . . .A four-year-old boy goes missing.A British rock star goes quietly mad.An alien-worshipping cult is born.An Iraqi teenager takes part in...
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Penguin
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2011-08-04
ePub
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Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul's File. Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-08-04
ePub
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Wild Abandon is Joe Dunthorne's outrageously funny novel of life in a Welsh commune.Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert has high hopes. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after twenty years -...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-08-04
ePub
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A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather.A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church.A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2011-08-04
ePub
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2017'He’s a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that’s serious literature' Haruki Murakami‘An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer’ James Wood'Without question Norway's bravest, most intelligent novelist' Per...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-31
ePub
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Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence and an...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-31
ePub
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE*From when he was twelve years old Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became, at home on the sea as other men were on land. Until the year of 1948, on board the steamship Golden...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-31
ePub
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Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-31
ePub
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Meade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions: to her brother, her pills and her purging. But when Ben Ho falls for a girl at art...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-07-28
ePub
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In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters.Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor.In their confines they are drawn...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-07-21
ePub
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The world's best magician is going blind, but is there a story in his past that can save him? Victor Losa has spent his life studying magic. His mentor, Mario Galvan, taught him not only the practical aspects of the art, but also its history and the lives of famous...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-07-14
ePub
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