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Who is Sei Shonagon? The tenth-century author of The Pillow Book? A woman of mixed-race parentage, surviving life in modern Japan? Or a voice from behind a screen, reaching across centuries, linking them both? Just off a fashionable street in the upbeat heart of...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-06-08
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A beautiful, haunting literary debut from an extraordinary talent and future prize-winner.One crisp, clear day, across a cobbled Oxford street, Raymond Greatorex catches sight of Beatrice Kopus. Raymond, a brilliant but ageing don whose specialty is Nietzsche, has...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-06-02
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A mesmerising story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-06-02
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At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker...
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Penguin
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2011-06-02
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Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wantsDouglas as an alibi for his growing...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2011-06-02
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It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon's story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which was his prison for many years....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-06-01
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An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to spend several years living on the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-05-31
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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...
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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 literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to...
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
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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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