‘Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed’ Anita Brookner, SpectatorWhat could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-31

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On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-01-27

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Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-25

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One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-25

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The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the London rock...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-18

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NOW IN ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.’ William Boyd‘Wonderfully observed ... true, funny, stylistically dazzling.’ The Times‘A...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-18

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Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-18

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘A rich chronicle of 20th-century English social life.’ John Banville‘Incalculably brilliant.’ Time‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘Astonishingly accurate, not just the comedies of incongruity but the gathering menace of the real war beyond.’ Financial Times‘A sheer delight.’ Observer‘A Dance to the Music of...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘An intricately wrought work of art.’ John Banville‘An incomparable treat.’ Michael Palin‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘Powell is very like a drug, the more compelling the more you read him.’ Sunday Times‘[Has] a unique place in English literature.’ Melvyn Bragg‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘The ironies are darker, the comic lights as funny as ever.’ Financial Times‘The finest English comic novel of the period.’ Sunday Times‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional: a dithering mother, a hard-drinking, womanising uncle who...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘Comic in the most honoured sense ... as serious as it is funny.’ Spectator‘Elegant, funny and moving.’ Guardian‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They even shared the same...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘The elegance of the style draws you in like incense to reverie.’ Sunday Times‘Gives pattern to the spectacle of human existence.’ Louisa Young‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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Christopher Hughes was a remarkable teacher. He knew every one of the boys in his classes as if he could see into their minds. He was extraordinarily dynamic and more than a little frightening - to pupils and colleagues alike. Sacrifices begins with his funeral, as his...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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Hull Fair, October 2007. A city still drowning in the aftermath of summer floodwater prepares to wave farewell to Europe's biggest travelling carnival. For six-year-old Billie, Walton Street is a magical playground of wide-eyed adventure. For David and Denise, the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-06

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train.Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London. At...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-06

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A gorgeous, all-consuming saga from a rising star in women's fictionTara Flynn has come a long way since she was a little girl growing up in the village of Ballygrace. Now mistress of Ballygrace House, the beautiful mansion overlooking the Tullamore countryside, Tara...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-12-30

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