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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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.’ Michael Palin‘A unique joy to read.’ Sunday Times‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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Jane's son David is eight years old and Jane is filled with doubts as he grows up without a father. Toby, her first love, has gone to Israel after the collapse of his marriage to Melissa. Then there is Andy, close at hand, a complex personality with his own problem son....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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From the author of The Gustav SonataWhen Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-28

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'With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator does what fiction should. It makes you listen' Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsBy the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir, teenage boys come to play cricket, talk...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-24

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Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-22

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In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.In the first story, a young West African is oppressed by the shadow of slavery; in the second an African-American...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-22

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Now a major Netflix film starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell, Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the most pivotal - and controversial - novels of the twentieth century.Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-21

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Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-centre is connected to sexual activity, and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress.Jack is no longer young nor has he ever quite fulfilled his remarkable promise. And then he visits Estonia, in search of inspiration, and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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'And then one day a solitary figure appeared, moving toward them across the lifeless plain from the west.One man on a camel... 'Paul Bowles's unforgettable short stories portray people facing hostile environments and the innate savagery of humanity. These three...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.'Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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'"Watch out for the mosquitoes," they called to one another, lyrically because warning wasn't any use anyway, as they walked out of their kimonos and dropped them like the petals of one big scattered flower on the bank behind them, and exposing themselves felt in a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Elise loves the farm that is her home. There is always tea in the silver teapot, gin and tonics are served on the veranda and her days are spent listening to stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl growing up in Zimbabwe, her life...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-10

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Monty and Ada last saw one another on the frontlines of the First World War, whenMonty was a nurse and Ada an ambulance driver who drove like the devil. Now, the two friends have been reunited at crumbling Bleakly Hall, whereMonty has been hired to look after the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-10

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Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century - and byBarney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'. This curious propulsion drives him out of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-08

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘As magnificently comic as anything in the series.’ Sunday Times‘A literary gem.’ Claire Messud‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-02-08

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