An enthralling Irish saga from a talented new voice in women's fiction.It's the 1950s and for Tara Flynn, red-haired, bright and ambitious, Ballygrace House represents everything she hopes for - beautiful, elegant and a world away from the small village where she lives...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-12-30

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Is true love waiting in the wings for Annie? A fresh, funny and romantic novel with a terrifically engaging heroine.Actress Annie Mitchell is devastated. Her husband Max has run off with her best friend, leaving her with a stack of unpaid bills and the self-esteem of...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-12-30

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An enchanting story of life and love in 1960s Ireland and beyond, from one of the best saga writers around.Cara Gayle is one of life's pleasers. A young, country school-teacher in 1960s Ireland, she spends her life looking after her philandering husband and her pious...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-12-30

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A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning authorTo the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there is scandal brewing. And for the Bishop of Simla, rainclouds...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-30
Collection : W&N Essentials
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From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENTIt all begins with the theft of Tessa Walcott's panties...After the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-30

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A darkly comic novel about life, death and everything that matters!At three o'clock in the morning, that defenceless hour when anything feels possible, the Idyll Inn's only sounds are the low hum and thrum a building makes to keep itself going. An uneasy hour, it is...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-30

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Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Visegrad on the banks...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-30

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'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book ReviewHe is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.The fate of Roth's everyman...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting: a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia from Edward Rutherford, the author of Paris, London and New York.In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate in literature, and to Libby - Paul's moody,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' ObserverSmooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the countryBlitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the six twenty-something friends ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny’ GuardianWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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'Subtle, funny and furious' ObserverWhat if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘A joyous experience. I remember wishing there’d been more than twelve volumes.’ Roddy Doyle‘A long, varied, intelligent and funny narrative that will be a joy to us all for...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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