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'An exceptional debut' IndependentAlex is twelve, and he lives with his younger brother and his parents in a dirt-poor white neighbourhood in 1980s South Africa. He and Kevin are trying to grow up, while their mother, Grace, is simply trying to keep them safe. Apart...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-02-19
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An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-02-19
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In The Music Teacher, a penetrating and richly entertaining look into the heart and mind of a woman who has failed both as an artist and as a wife, Barbara Hall, award-winning creator and writer of such hit television series as Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia, tells the...
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Algonquin Books
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2009-02-10
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And out of the Darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us.When The Hayseed Chronicles, an obscure series of children's books, become world-famous millions of readers debate the significance of that enigmatic last line and the...
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Penguin
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2009-02-05
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Granta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Shortlisted for NINE literary awards'Ross Raisin's story of how a disturbed but basically well-intentioned rural youngster turns into a malevolent sociopath is both chilling in its effect and...
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Penguin
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2009-02-05
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Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother...His life hasn't exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiancé, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-02-05
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Nothing can be kept secret for long in Thrush Green...For many years, Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty have taught in the school at Thrush Green, so their imminent retirement provokes rumour and speculation. Who will take Miss Watson's place as head teacher? As for...
Editeur :
Orion
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2009-01-22
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Thrush Green
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There are newcomers to the village of Thrush Green...Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there's heated debate in the village about the new residents. How to...
Editeur :
Orion
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2009-01-22
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Thrush Green
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The well-loved residents of Thrush Green return in another slice of village life.Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He faces opposition from the fearsome Mrs Thurgood and her arty...
Editeur :
Orion
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2009-01-22
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Thrush Green
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The Mayor's Tongue is a bold, vertiginous debut novel that unfolds in two narratives, one following a young man and the other an old man.The young man is Eugene Brentani, a devotee of the reclusive author and adventurer Constance Eakins, who goes to Trieste to find the...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-01-15
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A young woman hears the tale of a sacred text, written in an ancient language and inscribed on silk cloth many centuries ago. Puyi, the last emperor and owner of the relic, allegedly tore the silk in pieces with his teeth and threw it from a plane when he was taken by...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-01-01
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In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-01-01
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W&N Essentials
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Britain is reeling from reports of a terrorist bomb on a film set that has killed a hundred people and, possibly, the brightest star in Hollywood, Thomas Bayne. Caught up in the middle of the national mourning is Susan Mantle - a rather hopeless London tour-guide - who...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-12-26
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A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-12-26
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A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2008-12-16
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'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.'
So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.
ABOUT...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-12-11
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A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-12-04
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Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-11-27
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This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2008-11-17
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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
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2008-11-15
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