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Six short tales of chilling suspense from bestselling author of Haven't They Grown Sophie Hannah, plus an exclusive extract from her new psychological thriller, THE CARRIER, coming out in February 2013.
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-10-25
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'The time you pass reading Shade is only the start of an experience; this novel will continue to haunt and fascinate well beyond the final page' Sunday IndependentIreland, 1950. Nina Hardy wakes in the big house where she grew up. Now aged fifty, she has returned to the...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2012-09-27
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When Desmond Doyle finds his girlfriend dead in the bath, having cut her wrists, he is devastated. But there are inconsistencies with how suicide wounds would be inflicted and he quickly comes under suspicion and is arrested for murder. Though soon released, Detective...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2012-07-30
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"Of course, I've always had a secret. Have I always known it? I suppose I did, in a way - in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and didn't know." In this novel Eva Hoffman explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets, and secrets...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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Two orphaned boys - one Russian (Ivan), and one British (Michael) -may or may not be brothers, Ivan is brought up brutally on the bleak rural steppes, while Michael is cosseted by his grandmother in the Home Counties. And yet they coexist in a sort of parallel universe'...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2012-01-31
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In his own words, Charlie Cross is a bloke in love. A hard-drinking, chain-smoking lawyer, he is well-off, divorced and heading for trouble. When he meets Viola in an after-hours drinking club, he knows instinctively that they could do each other harm. What follows is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. He gradually discovers, through dreams and portents, that he is in fact his...
Editeur :
Gateway
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2011-09-29
Collection :
Gateway Essentials
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Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighbourhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence. As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumours, divergent...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-03
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As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies...
Editeur :
Gollancz
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2010-12-30
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Thelma is six years old. Life at home is unsettling and disturbing; her father's games are not enjoyable and her mother dotes on Willy, the favoured child. When her parents move to Canada,Thelma smuggles her imaginary friends with her in her suitcase. By turns harrowing...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you are facing the Weekend From Hell.You don't know the half of it!Obviously, before the market reopens on Monday,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2010-10-31
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It's autumn 2008 and Matt Freeman is having a very bad day. Stuck in Canary Wharf, he's overwhelmed by shoddy merchandise, hollow corporations and broken promises. Later that night, things only get worse when he drops in on his girlfriend, Bobbie, a fashion PR and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD'[A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers' Susan SontagLonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-25
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Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-05-25
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On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago - a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God - the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles away his time drinking and fishing, but when one bloody night he...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-02-18
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‘It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary’Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-01-26
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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror A gritty tale of hard time, hard men and hard drugs for fans of Martina Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell and Kerry Barnes.When Mary's mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-09-03
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One windy April afternoon, a young woman bicycles alone along a stretch of Iowa highway. She's pedaling hard, hurrying to get home in time for dinner . . . Alex Voormann is a cerebral thirty-year-old archaeologist married to the woman of his dreams--a beautiful,...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-02-03
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'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-01-29
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Belle, restless and sleepless, is alone in her vast new house while her husband works abroad. Dangerously idle, she invites the alluring and damaged Tina, a local waitress with a violent boyfriend, to become her lodger – even though she barely knows her.Gradually Belle...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-06-26
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