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A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. The mystery behind this painting threads together each...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-08-04
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Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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Funny, irreverent, dark, and tender - a startling and sexy debut collection. Women (and men) cope with foreign marriages in Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities. Transplanted...
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Virago
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2016-07-21
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For well over a quarter of a century, Gardner Dozois has been defining the field with his annual selection of the very best of recently published science fiction. Every year he showcases truly exceptional contemporary writing, both by undisputed masters of the genre and...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2016-07-07
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a bird of flaming gold'Ranging from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo...
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Penguin
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2016-07-07
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A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a 'Clothing Optional Resort' in California.A nerdy high schooler has her first sexual experience at geology camp. On the night of her father's funeral, a college student watches an old video...
Editeur :
Jm Originals
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2016-06-30
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In 1955, aged twenty-three and fresh from a Master's in English Literature, Joe Gores knew he wanted to be a writer.In the meantime, he had to pay the bills.He became a repo man for L. A. Walker, later going into partnership with Walker's San Francisco manager, Dave...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2016-06-14
Collection :
DKA Files
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THE RED CARPET by Lavanya Sankaran is collection of entwining short stories, as rich and absorbing as any novel. For any readers who love Jhumpa Lahiri or Arundhati Roy. 'I recommend this book so highly' Washington PostFrom traditional mothers trying to marry off their...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
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2016-06-09
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Playing in the park one day, Agathe, who is ten, loses her doll Louise. The following Wednesday, when she tells her friend Cécile that Louise had written her a letter Cécile of course makes fun of her and doesn't believe a word of it. However...Like Agathe, the others...
Editeur :
Atramenta
Parution :
2016-06-07
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners – published here for the first time, was almost...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-06-02
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-05-26
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Anna Metcalfe's stories are about communication and miscommunication - between characters and across cultures. Whether about a blithely entitled English teacher in a poor Beijing school, an immigrant female taxi driver in Paris, or a young Chinese girl spouting made-up...
Editeur :
Jm Originals
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2016-05-19
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An essential short story collection from the author of THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT - now a major Netflix dramaContaining:Far From HomeThe Other End of the LineThe Big BounceThe GoldabrickThe Ifth of OofthThe Scholar's DiscipleFar From HomeClose To...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2016-05-19
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Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2017'The judges recognised the mastery of form which is present in Fiona McFarlane's unforgettable collection of stunning short stories . . . highly varied in tone and brought the reader to characters, situations and places...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2016-05-05
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The first collection of stories from the author ofThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time andThe Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-05-05
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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and torched...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2016-03-15
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Fans of Dan Brown and Simon Toyne will be gripped by this high-octane novella, which follows hot on the heels of GENESIS and DOMINUS by Tom Fox.In just eight hours and forty-five minutes, an explosive device is primed to rock the foundations of Rome...When journalist...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2016-03-10
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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'... slowly uncoiling their tentacles... and making a soft purring sound to each other'A disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-03
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‘A wonderful writer’ Hilary MantelAll of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-02-25
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They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is...Meet the little boy who believes in miracles.Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of her supermarket.Meet the husband who carves a longed-for baby out of ice as a gift for...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-02-25
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