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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'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 : 2011-02-28

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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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