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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...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
ePub
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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
ePub
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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...
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Jm Originals
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2016-05-19
ePub
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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
Parution :
2016-05-19
ePub
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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
ePub
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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....
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-05-05
ePub
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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
ePub
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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
ePub
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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
Parution :
2016-03-03
ePub
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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
ePub
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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
ePub
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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
ePub
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A SPECIAL SHORT STORY FROM THE WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTION 2015 -A STANDALONE PREQUEL TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING THE WAY WE WEREIt's Valentine's Day and Alice's house is a sea of elaborate cards and billowing heart-shaped balloons. These gifts are...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-02-25
ePub
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The Night Guest introduced an Australian writer 'with the promise of literary greatness' (Los Angeles Times).The High Places delivers on that promise.The dazzling stories in this collection find those moments when people confront the strangeness and mystery of their...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2016-02-01
ePub
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When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-01-28
ePub
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Ewan should not have accepted a lift to Glasgow from The Professor. He had bought a train ticket, had brought a packed lunch - he had been all set. All he had needed to say was 'No'. Two letters. Instead he nodded his head gratefully to The Professor's kind offer. Now...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-01-21
ePub
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'An exquisite collection from an exciting new voice in short fiction' LadyA woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-01-14
ePub
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Secrets and lies in the 1930s in an atmospheric short story from the bestselling author of The Girl in the PhotographMarjorie knows that James has had affairs in the past but she believed him when he said it would never happen again. Then the old warning signs start to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-01-14
ePub
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The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man will seek the truth. NOVEMBER, 2019. I've never believed in any kind of god. But that's a problem when they start manifesting. It was a problem for everyone else too, especially those whose gods did not...
Editeur :
Arcadia
Parution :
2016-01-07
Collection :
The Return of the Ancient Gods
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