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The brilliant and outrageous debut novel from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry.Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-08-24
ePub
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Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a year and never left again. Only Frank, quiet, watchful Frank, got away....
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-17
ePub
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A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. The Empire might be in a state of collapse, but for young 'colonials', England remains a mythical place that draws them from the farthest corners of the globe....
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-17
ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2010.In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. Is is the early twentieth century and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. The upper floors house...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-05
ePub
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And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants,...
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Penguin
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2010-08-05
ePub
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From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what's in store, but Rufus, a keen young journalist eager to get himself noticed, has no idea what he's let...
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Penguin
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2010-08-05
ePub
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A tale of murder and literary ambition set on an American university campus from a master of the dark side of human natureIt's been over a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant short story debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career now lie in...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
ePub
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Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a tragic, hidden world that runs in parallel to our own. It is a story of identity and culture, of the irrepressibility of the human spirit, and the powerful undertow of love.
Editeur :
Short Books
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2010-07-21
ePub
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Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to 'find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-15
ePub
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From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist.'It should be read by all' VOGUE'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'To Georg Røed, his...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-15
ePub
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'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' Daily Telegraph'An extraordinary achievement' Sunday Times 'Terrifically entertaining and imaginative' Daily MailSophie's World introduces us to fourteen-year-old Sophie: a Norwegian highschooler who receives mysterious letters...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-15
ePub
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It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while everything...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2010-07-01
ePub
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Catherine O'Flynn, author of the Man Booker prize winning What Was Lost offers a 'funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss' in The News Where You Are.Frank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2010-07-01
ePub
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A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter divorce is broken when Ilana writes to Alex for help over their wayward and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-06-30
ePub
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When her twin brother breaks a promise and returns to their childhood home in Sri Lanka on his own, Valentina decides that it's time to make some changes in her life. She cuts off her hair and takes a job as a gardener (although she'd prefer to be a writer) in a small...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-06-30
ePub
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This captivating and charming novel from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris takes us back to the French village we first discovered in Chocolat. Seamlessly interweaving the past and the present, magic and memory, it is a sensual rollercoaster that...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-06-29
ePub
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A stunningly incisive and poignant novel about family, duty and the challenging world of the mind.Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-06-24
ePub
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'This magnificent saga of shipwrecked lives grips from the first sentence and weaves parallel intrigues of memory and survivial, money and revenge, resolved only in the closing pages' IndependentIn a small seaside suburb two strangers arrive - Juan Olmedo, accompanied...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-06-24
ePub
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Two young lovers arrive for an idyllic holiday in Greece but find that they can't escape their past - a brilliant new novel from the author of the acclaimed THE END OF SLEEP.Max and Tine arrive on the Greek island of her childhood holidays. Both are in their mid...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-06-24
ePub
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February is persecuting the townspeople. It has been winter for more than three hundred days. All forms of flight are banned and the children have started to disappear, taken from their beds in the middle of the night. The priests hang ominous sheets of parchment on the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-06-03
ePub
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