The new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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One night a young couple sneak onto the estate of wealthy Lydia Blessing and leave a box in the driveway. In the box is a baby and Skip Cuddy, the caretaker who finds her decides secretly to keep her. When Lydia Blessing discovers this she has choices to make, as she...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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In Sawgamet, a gold mining village gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. On the eve of his mother's funeral, Stephen, a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Ollie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. He can't escape what has happened in London and is tormented by old fears and regrets. Finally, he decides to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European émigrés, fill the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘One of the fictional landmarks of our time.’ Times Literary Supplement‘A joyous experience.’ Roddy Doyle‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any he's lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2011-05-26

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Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business.One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O Men for the Virgin...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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'An enthralling, perfectly paced romp that breathes new life into the picaresque genre' Observer'Rich in period detail and with requisite glittering trappings' Daily Mail'A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in' Seattle...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-05-12

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Enter the world of Evie Steppman, born into the dying days of the British Empire in Nigeria. It's loud and cacophonous. Why? Because Evie can hear things no one else can. Although she's too young to understand all the sounds she takes in, she hoards them in a vast...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-05-05

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Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.'In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-05-05

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Auto Da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction.Manipulated...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-30

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'You have to search for the key to the song of your life and when you find it, don't let it go.' Fourteen year old Solomon lives for adventures with his cousin Ze, his dog Duke and above all, to sing and play the piano, for which he has a rare gift. But when life in the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-04-28

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Love, food and Italy - a delicious novel from the author of THE FOOD OF LOVE COOKERY SCHOOL.Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter in the Carrozza family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At 16, Maria's life is limited to the confines of her...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-04-28

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Love, life, friendship and Italian food...Raffaella Moretti, by far the most beautiful girl in the southern Italian town of Triento, is about to marry the only boy she has ever loved. It seems that nothing but happiness lies in store for her. Yet, just one year later,...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-04-28

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These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-28

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