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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...
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Penguin
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2011-08-04
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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...
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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 -...
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Penguin
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2011-08-04
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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
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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
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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
Parution :
2011-07-14
ePub
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Meet: Gayle Beck, the matriarch of Hunting Ridge society, who struggles to reconcile her picture-perfect life with a numbing sense of unfulfilment; Love Welsh, adoring mother, who battles with memories of a childhood lived in the shadow of a genius father; Marie...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-07-11
ePub
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Granta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the YearMick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife, Cathy, to Australia, and back...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-07-07
ePub
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Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all sides, the target of admonishers, advisers, would-be literary critics,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
ePub
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Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-06-30
ePub
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'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John UpdikeWith his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-06-30
ePub
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At Niagara Falls, Toby O'Hara offers rides over the rushing water in a red and blue striped hot air balloon. The balloon is a day job for Toby, his night work is to continue to perfect his father's design for a flying machine. On the other side of the Atlantic, Ursula...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
ePub
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Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the century - the Six Day War, the Prague Spring - and collected friends, lovers, and passions...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
ePub
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