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Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-05
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Dark yet disarming, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection.Where sex is a currency, or a weapon.Where power ends in corruption, or violence.Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes.Where love is power, or something...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-04
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An album of thirteen short stories.An invitation to embark on a journey: from modern urban London, to a river in Africa, to world war, to the near and not-so-near past, to death and the ultimate state.Joseph Smith’s third book, Finally My Ambulance, is a flow of...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-07-04
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A short ebook exclusive story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas for BeginnersBeth and Michael have worked hard all their married life to give their children everything they want. It hasn't been easy but it's been worth it. Now, as Beth enjoys quality...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2013-07-01
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An old friend urges Shea Ohmsford to take a dangerous risk in the concluding story of this gripping Shannara eBook series by New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks.Shea Ohmsford has had quite enough of quests. A year after surviving a harrowing odyssey,...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2013-06-27
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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The legendary hero Allanon takes center stage in the first of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara - by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks.The history is thus:The...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2013-06-20
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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A city besieged by a powerful warlock seeks salvation from a fabled warrior in the second of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara - by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
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2013-06-20
Collection :
Paladins of Shannara
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Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2013-06-06
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Joseph Smith's bestial myth is a strikingly alternative pastoral. Taurus is the psychologically unnerving and viscerally detailed story of a bull. This extract offers a taste of a powerful, beautiful and extremely unusual novel of animal life. It also introduces readers...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-06-06
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A digital only short story from John Connolly, The Sunday Times bestselling author of the Charlie Parker novels.
Lionel Maulding, a rare-book collector, has gone missing from his country home in Norfolk. When his nephew approaches Mr Maulding's solicitor, Mr Quayle,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-05-23
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Encounter a wealth of lively characters and true-to-life situation in this collection of vivid and compelling stories.Ivy of the Angel reveals why an elderly bag lady becomes the centre of attention in an Oxford Street store.Dive into a tale of thwarted love in London's...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The Mafia and the Ten Commandments meet in these interlinked short stories about the undebelly of Naples. Ten uncovers the raw heart of a city, telling the stories of ordinary people forced to make extraordinary compromises in a place permeated by crime.We encounter a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-05-02
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A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage.A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
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'This is the age for the short story. None will be better or more worthy of admiration than Wallace Stegner's Collected Stories' Washington Post Book WorldIn a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the National...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
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In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination.In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-04-26
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When a young woman is found brutally murdered in a parking garage, with a veritable mountain of potential evidence to sift through, it may be the most challenging case former NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme has ever taken on.
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-04
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"Do you know what the last four things are? In the Christian catechism they are Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. But in our secular age they should perhaps be changed. I suggest - First Love, Friendship, Betrayal and Death . . . These also happen to be the staples of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-03-31
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'Signs and Wonders' documents a couple's divorce after twenty-six years of marriage; in 'Robbing the Cradle', a teacher desperate to conceive resorts to the most extreme measures imaginable; and 'The Stepmother's Story' sees a young woman experience every parent's worst...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Stephan, a young man from a rich family in Miami, and his girlfriend Wendy are kidnapped and held in Jamaica. After liberating them with his partner Rink, Joe realises on his return to Tampa, that someone from the kidnapping gang is after him. His investigations lead...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-03-14
Collection :
Joe Hunter
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