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Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Martin is a graduate student spending a week undertaking scientific field study in a neighbouring, post-Communist country. He sees a residual bitterness among the town's people about the empty promises of an abandoned ideology. Will he allow this bitterness to flavour...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Dance of Heartbreak', something happened to a young boy in Grade 4, at Red Flag Elementary School; but even today the whole affair remains fresh in his mind. He'd never met another girl like her; she was a little child of glass, beautiful in her sorrow when she ran...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Yongshan is taking her son back to Licheng to visit relatives, and to see the town where she grew up. But when they get there, all she could find were desolate houses. Even the people on the street seemed not to recognise her. But then, in the rubble of her old...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Goddess Peak', Miaoyue and Li Yong were almost the last two passengers aboard the steamboat to Goddess Peak - them and Li Yong's friend Mr Cui. Miaoyue found Mr Cui taller and better built than she'd imagined, and also a little younger and more handsome. For some...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Channel Crossing', holidays can provide a huge relief from the daily grind...a fresh experience, new surroundings. Such a relief, in fact, that for many people it can signal the start of a new life, in a foreign country. But is the grass always greener on the other...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Two sisters are distressed and disturbed by their father's display of 'desperate, choking, terrified devotion' to their mother as she lies dying in her bed. Time begins to heal the wounds inflicted by the loss, yet the sisters fear that their father may never recover....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Will Jason King ever charm the young rider Jenni Cahill and gain long-anticipated access to her jodhpurs?Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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It's not always fun playing the monster: after all, all you are is sword-fodder. But for the desperate, the misfit, the loner and the freak, dressing up in costume for the regular Saturday fantasy role-playing game in the woods is more satisfying than any reality.It's...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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In 'Gastronomicon', Ernest's wife is a wonderful cook, aided by recipes from the ancient leather book - a family treasure - passed down to her by her mother-in-law. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she undertakes to cook a very special meal - but...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Set during the turmoil of the brutal Christian conversion of the Norse, this short story is the coming of age tale of Arne Thoreson. Thoreson, whose condemnation of Christianity is born out of respect for his lineage, is the son of Thore, feeder of ravens, and Ranveig,...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-11-17
ePub
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The first collection of stories from a Booker Prize shortlisted author.Michael Collins's stories are about Ireland, about the Irish as they are and as they would like to be imagined. In the title story we see the fatal consequences of self-deception. Posing as a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-11-10
ePub
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Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can't help but love: Douglas Coupland's stories are illustrated with dark charm by Graham Roumieu in a collaboration that brings together two of Canada's wittiest creators for the first time. Put...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-11-03
ePub
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Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the Denham family: brilliant and charming, they dazzle Clara with their flair for life, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-03
ePub
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Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, 'Into the War', we are given an insight into what life was...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-03
ePub
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'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-03
ePub
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'Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very moving' - Amos OzAt a children's tea party, a magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out only its head; a young man has...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
ePub
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In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives. Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are as painfully funny as they are brief and cover a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
ePub
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'Coming a little nearer to Scannell's own situation, au pairs have a long, well established and respectable tradition as persons into whom it is OK, even de rigeur, to dip the seigneurial wick. But cleaning ladies. Cleaning women. Deeply suspect to have to admit to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
ePub
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