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From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-02-23
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As a young woman in the 1980's, Julia became entangled with the emerging punk scene in Minneapolis - in particular with the band Nobody's fool - until a mysterious and unspeakable catastrophe delivers her to a husband and the suburbs. Battered by mental llness, haunted...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-02-23
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-02-23
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On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation. Out of this incident during the early...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-02-18
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Fielding Montanna might be dead, but doesn't know it. Sunday Daffodil wants to kill herself, but won't die. Louie Louie has the hots for Fielding's once beautiful mother, and the mysterious Moriarty hasn't slept a wink in twenty three years. Manhattan, meanwhile, is...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-02-04
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Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, clings to power whilst his soldiers switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear. All in all, Zambawi is not the ideal location for...
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Penguin
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2010-02-04
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Couples.Couples at war.Couples apparently at peace - with war simmering beneath the surface.Desire frustrated.Desire, satisfied - but in surprising ways.Revenge at its most creative.Reconciliation at its most tender.Love. Perhaps.Here is the story of how couples are...
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Penguin
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2010-02-04
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I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect...left me so fizzing with admiration' ObserverA stunning collection of short stories by the three-times Costa prizewinner Not the End of the World is Kate...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-01-26
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An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he is constantly on the move. But from...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-01-21
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A young woman prays at her husband's bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. From outside come the sounds of tanks, gunshots, screaming and, most terrifying of all, silence. Inside, her two frightened daughters call to her from the hallway. As she tries...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-01-14
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A powerful and gripping historical thriller for fans of The Essex Serpernt and The Miniaturist. 'Original and evocative ... a mesmerising thriller' Daily Telegraph'Full of twists and turns' Scotsman'An enthralling exploration of revolutionary science in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-12-22
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Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-24
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'She'd never dreamt she'd wind up being a mum before she had a baby.' Can you ever be ready for a ready-made family?When Annie is swept off her feet by handsome widower Simon Keeler, she thinks all her dreams have come true. But Simon comes with baggage: seven-year-old...
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Orion
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2009-11-19
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity, and the ceaseless tussle of innocence versus...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-10
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The compelling story of two generations of a family - and the secrets they keep - from the bestselling author of THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOLBeside the River Needle is a willow, meeting place for generations of Needlewick girls. Suzanna is the elder daughter of the village...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-11-05
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Ellen McKinnon's clairvoyant experiences damage her mental and physical health. She must face and assimilate an unwanted but unavoidable family secret, experiencing a revelation that turns her life around in this insightful look at the rift between mysticism and...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2009-10-31
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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life,Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his...
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Penguin
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2009-10-29
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Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre.When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for her. This quiet, lonely girl must learn quickly when she finds herself teaching in a...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-10-06
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Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-10-06
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Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house in early 1900s South Africa. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert.One day a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2009-10-06
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