In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-28

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Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-28

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Two soldiers travel across Italy at the height of summer, passing through Genoa, Rome and Naples. One of the soldiers is blind, graceful, gleefully vicious and wears a prosthetic arm; the other, twenty years his junior, is his guide. But as these men drink their way...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-28

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The Trouble with Alice is a beautifully written tale of two people thrown in at the emotional deep end, struggling to find a way back in the aftermath of tragedy. With poignancy and humour, and a keen understanding of human frailty, Olivia Glazebrook unwinds the...

Editeur : Short Books
Parution : 2011-04-19

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A hard-hitting parable about the conflicts that have ravaged the Balkan states, by Albania’s most influential novelist.When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-04-13

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Welcome to Rome. It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees - among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks - they await passage to their...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Josiah Horatio Nelson is born to unusual parents. Having met in a psychiatric hospital, they decide to bring up their child far away from the constraints of conventional society. But social services soon intervene to remove him from his idyllic home. Friendless,...

Editeur : Arcadia Books
Parution : 2011-04-07

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The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-04-06

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Flora is a plucky teenage girl.Cobra is a double agent.Flint Driscoll is a reporter.Captain Smith is a military man.Moon is a bored drone pilot.Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain.They were never expected to meet, except for one farcical war . . .

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2011-03-31

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After the scandalous theft of a pub's World Cup cash kitty, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle: 'The Man Who Walks', up into the Highlands to recover the money - a cool -27,000. The nephew's frantic, stalled progress and other bizarre diversions form this...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-31

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David Foster Wallace's last and most ambitious undertaking The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary to newly arrived traineeDavid Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2011-03-31

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Who said that sex was better than shopping?Best mates Sandie, Emily and Grazia thought they'd be friends forever, but they reckoned without the dividing effects of men and money...Shopping guru Sandie is on a roll, with a baby on the way and Toby, her posh totty...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-03-17
Collection : Secret Shopper series
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen'Daily Mail'Astoundingly joyful'Guardian'Alarmingly funny'Times Literary SupplementAfter Mia's husband of thirty years asks for a...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Literary agent Valerie Morrell receives an email from prospective author William Mendez, containing the first chapters of a promising new novel. Mendez's book tells the story of an April night, when a nervous, nerdy journalist takes his boss's invitation to an A-list...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-03

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THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESH A brilliant novel about money and love and betting everything on a single throwJames and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years, the grown siblings -...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-03-03

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From the author of The Gustav SonataToday is Jack Sadler's birthday. Or is it? He's not sure, he doesn't really care. It might be his last day or the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room. He knows the truth about his past lies...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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From the author of The Gustav SonataAfter the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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In 1629, young English lutenist Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court believing music will secure his future. Instead, he enters a world shaped by suspicion, rivalry and royal power. Set in Denmark and in the shadow of the Thirty Years’ War, Music & Silence follows...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANESet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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