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* By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014* 'An idiosyncratic and compelling voice' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2014-06-19
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A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-06-05
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From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with humour, empathy, and rare and magical descriptive powers these nine vibrant stories...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-06-05
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This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings.With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-05-22
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'One afternoon, in a particularly bright and glowing August, some years before I knew I was happy...'Charming, evocative and imbued with the melancholy of nostalgia, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is Dylan Thomas's much-loved collection of loosely...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-05-22
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A charming short story from the author of the celebrated Inspector Montalbano series. Sicily, 1862. In the newly united Italy, Judge Surra arrives in Montelusa to take charge of the local court, in a town where conflict has been kind to a select few. At first, Surra is...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2014-05-01
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From award-winning novelist Ceridwen Dovey, a collection of short stories as innovative and beautifully written as Nam Le's The Boat.These ten tales are told by the souls of animals killed in human conflicts in the past century or so, including a camel in colonial...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-04-23
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With Rebecca Shaw's trademark warm storytelling and eye for character, this is a perfect summer read.The House at Spinnaker Cove is reminiscent of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. A haunting story of a young woman moving to a glorious beachside house only to find something...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-04-17
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Wanted: Discerning reader with an open mind and an appetite for destruction.John Lago is an intern. But that's just a cover - his real job is to kill people. The problem is, he's still very much learning. Tasked with taking out a corrupt movie boss, John heads to...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2014-04-03
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The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2014-04-03
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In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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The second collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 12 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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The author's beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers. History plays a part too, for Norse and Scottish legend are revived in tales of witch trials, priest hunts and Viking raids, all...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-03-27
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A cunning collection of short stories from the master of misdirection with tales featuring the hugely popular series characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance.TENSION . . . An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-03-13
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Best of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue”...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-13
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Novels: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-13
epub sans DRM
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire + The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx Without A Secret + many...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-13
epub sans DRM
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The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day andThe Blue Book.She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best.A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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WINNER OF THE 2014 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'One of the best books of the past decade... The characters are edgy, often violent, locked into a world described in ways that are both harsh and tender. . . Adds a sense of myth, even a spiritual aura, to the narrative that...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-06
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