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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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In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-27
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It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-27
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When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious power which inspires everyone he meets to a new faith and hope for humanity. As Cutter's...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-27
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In 1660s Restoration England, Robert Merivel, an ambitious medical student, enters the glittering and dangerous world of the royal court. Set during the splendid yet fragile reign of King Charles II, this masterly historical novel immerses readers in all the spectacle...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-27
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'A masterpiece. A novel of high seriousness and higher playfulness' Michael Hulse, Spectator On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
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'A sequel to his acclaimed début Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent... This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-04-07
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How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly is the transcendent story of a young woman who, in a twenty-four hour period, journeys through startling moments of self-discovery that lead her to a courageous and life-altering decision. Set amidst the lush pine forests and rich...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2010-04-02
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