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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
Parution :
2010-07-01
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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...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-07-01
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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
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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
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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
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2010-06-29
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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
Parution :
2010-06-24
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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
Parution :
2010-06-24
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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
Parution :
2010-06-24
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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
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In 1943 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen. Max discovers an overgrown garden surrounded by a metal fence topped with a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-05-27
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Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim - who turns him in to the police. This novel is...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2010-05-27
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City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.'In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-05-27
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In the Amazon city of Belén, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-25
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A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.The society within toils under an oppressive...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2010-05-13
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-13
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Two former lovers are brought back together ... but can they really trust their pasts? The new novel from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-05-06
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'Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'George SteinerOld Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-05-06
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As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous 'communications company'. But this is not his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-30
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A compelling, gripping novel from the No.1 bestselling author of The Moment and The Pursuit of Happiness.Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in thecreative...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-04-30
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A powerful and touching novel of ordinary people in the grip of a terrible and sinister regime, and a moving portrait of a love that will not be extinguished.Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-29
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