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It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. Born into privilege, their certainties are as unshakeable as the walls of their Victorian castle.It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son of a...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-04-02
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'Strange and absorbing . . . I relished this book' - Penelope Lively, The New York Times Book Review 'Sensitive, melancholy, sharply observant. A work of great power' - Guardian Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire...
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Penguin
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2015-03-26
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It doesn’t take much to tip the world into chaos. You don’t even have to mean to do it. You might be an honest family man; a police chief in a small town in Central Vietnam, say, with no desire whatsoever to unleash catastrophe. A man such as Chief Duong, with simple...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-03-26
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The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned...
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Penguin
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2015-03-26
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** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **From the writer of BBC TV's MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT comes Sunday Times Top Ten hardback and paperback bestseller, A PLACE CALLED WINTER - picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club.'A...
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Tinder Press
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2015-03-24
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ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015
Winner, Type Books Award
In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling....
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Anvil Press
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2015-03-20
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It begins as a simple dream.An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture.Within a year, he is...
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Two Roads
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2015-03-12
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Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to...
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Penguin
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2015-03-12
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In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger school teacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil of Noa's dies under difficult...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-28
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‘One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction’ The TimesIn the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity.Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-28
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When Tim Hughes joins his precocious schoolfriend Julian in a holiday job sorting out the library of an elderly neighbour, Harald Meades, he doesn't comprehend the emotions, both adult and adolescent, with which he is about to tangle. Harald's mathematician son and his...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-02-26
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John Taylor, an accountant, has been deserted by his wife, Stella, after three years of marriage. He struggles to make sense of his life. At a concert he meets his old music master, Michael Alexander, whose son Sebastian, an international cello virtuoso, is the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-02-26
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John Worth is an artist - not a Bohemian, but a stubborn and self-disciplined man. Friends and colleagues try to influence his work - his mistress wants him to introduce more political themes and his dealer urges him towards fugurative painting. But Worth, though...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-02-26
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Imagine a world where everyone is born with a 'skin' name. Without skin you cannot learn, you are not permitted to marry, and you grow up an outsider amongst your own people.
This is no future dystopia. This is Celtic Britain.
It is AD 43. For the Caer Cad, 'skin'...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-02-25
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‘If you liked Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll like this’ Metro‘Will generate the same feel-good word of mouth as last year’s bestseller, The Rosie Project’ Sydney Morning HeraldMillie Bird is seven-years-old. On a shopping trip with her mum,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-01-29
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The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersFamily secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish familyIn the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, the daughter of an impecunious clergyman, arrives at...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersA brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetime In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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**Ebook edition featuring exclusive extra reading material** Barcelona, Summer 2003.Three women are sacrificed to an unknown purpose, skin carved with a cryptic alphabet, tongues cut from their mouths. Sent beautiful, sinister letters - clues, or confessions? -...
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Riverrun
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2015-01-29
Collection :
The Serpent Papers Trilogy
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Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersThe probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dublin hotelWhat was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor - a powerful and moving novel from one of the world's finest writersAfter nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce,Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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