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'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.Penguin Modern: fifty new books...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"'Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create'A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband is suspected of infidelity; and a dying man reflects on his extramarital...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.Penguin Modern: fifty new books...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern:...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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Escape to the seaside with Part Two of a brand-new four-part serial set on the Devon coast, from bestselling author Cathy Bramley.Just a few weeks in Brightside Cove and Nina has already started to forget the life she’s left behind. But London is calling – lots has...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-02-08
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'Beautifully crafted' New York Times'The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent' Celeste NgFrom an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface.In...
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Blackfriars
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2018-02-06
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**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus’ Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-02-01
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Escape to the seaside with Part One of a brand-new four-part serial set on the Devon coast, from bestselling author Cathy Bramley.Nina has always dreamed of being a star, unfortunately her agent thinks she’s more best friend than leading lady. Unsurprisingly, her career...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-01-11
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Gentle, witty and sometimes disturbing, DANGEROUS PLEASURES is Patrick Gale's first collection of much loved short stories'Nattily subversive, sexually ambiguous, intelligent and disturbing. The prose sizzles with acidic observation' Sunday TimesA funeral party ends in...
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Tinder Press
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2018-01-05
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A passionate and intensely sensual short story by bestselling author Alice Raine. Perfect for fans of 365 Days, E. L. James, Sylvia Day and Tara Sue Me.Readers LOVE Alice Raine's deeply erotic tales:'Omg she's done it again!! Couldn't put this book down and in fact read...
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Headline Accent
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2017-12-21
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Sinful Treats
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A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute.A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year...
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Penguin
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2017-11-02
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-10-17
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Envy, lust, sorrow . . .From the author of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire comes an anthology of short stories overflowing with sensation - Andrea Newman leads you through a series of visceral sensations - swirling sexuality, jealousy, love and loss.The power he was using over...
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Penguin
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2017-10-05
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THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN INTHE BARDOIn his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-09-21
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZEAlmost-true stories for a post-truth worldWrong! Not Nice! Sad!A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapés to watch the Trump-Clinton results come in, expecting a smooth victory...
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Riverrun
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2017-08-24
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