With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness, sanity and madness, belief and the loss of faith. First published in 1954,...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-05-05
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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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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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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