The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia'.Edwin Fisher has fled to a seaside resort of his childhood past...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle. The boy is a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery...The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening StandardEdward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. It is the autumn of 2004 and Cleaver has recently enjoyed the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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'Pip Vaughan-Hughes has given us a monk, a corpse, a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure that romps across mediaeval Christendom' Bernard Cornwell1248 AD. King Louis of France is about to invade Egypt on his vainglorious Seventh Crusade. Pope and Emperor are...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-09-16
Collection : Unholy Relics
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C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-07

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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...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-08-24

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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....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-17

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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....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-17

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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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-05

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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,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-08-05

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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...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-08-05

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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
Parution : 2010-07-22

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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
Parution : 2010-07-21

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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
Parution : 2010-07-15

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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
Parution : 2010-07-15

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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
Parution : 2010-07-15

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