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'The condemned man looked so doggishly submissive, it really seemed as if one might allow him to roam the slopes freely, and only needed to whistle when it was time for the execution, and he would come.'Kafka transformed the possibilities of the short story, his unique...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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'Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt.'One of 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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'Of a sudden I realized that he was in the grip of some almost overpowering fear.'Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels and poetry, but his short stories reveal a far more sinister and macabre side to his imagination. In these three chilling and psychologically...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...'Profound and...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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'Her feelings for the child redeemed her from bitterness, and shed some light on the dark industrial terraces and the waste lands of the city's rubble.'One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator'Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly...
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Penguin
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2011-02-15
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The possibility of change, of starting anew, in this stunning beautiful and poignant collection of short stories, is at once terrifying and filled with promise.For those Indian-born women living new lives in America, independence is a mixed blessing.It means walking the...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-02-08
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Andrew Porter's stories offer a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak and emotional complexity - the work of an important new voice.These ten stories take us across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to suburban...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-25
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A collection of five varied erotic spanking stories with mixed themes.The Governess by Izzy FrenchNo governess lasts very long in Monsieur Leveque’s house, and none of them will talk about what happens to them there. Angelique expects to be dismissed as easily as the...
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Headline Accent
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2011-01-20
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Perfect Punishments
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Charlotte Grimshaw's collection of interlinked stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Medal for Fiction. She has described Opportunity as a single, unified...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-11
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True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-11
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A FUTURISTIC COVER - COMES WITH 3D GLASSES!Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-23
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The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-23
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In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted.In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-23
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An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-23
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A volume containing the novella, "Victims", and stories "Heritage" and "Cancer". The book offers a vision of the situation in Ulster that ranges from childhood confrontations to the force of passion which leads adults to reprisals and murder.
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
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In sharply evoked settings that range from the wilds of Northern Greece to the beaches of Cape Cod, these intensely dramatic tales chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions. The lives in them seethe with love, hate,...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the extraordinary epiphanies where the World falls away leaving only the lovers. Love...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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Unique and highly erotic, Cannibals is a novel of eighty-eight bulletins that reveal the fractured essence of our age. Characters wallow in bad jokes and bad sex, and trade happiness and pain as we enter their lives and then abruptly leave again, seemingly at random.
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a new front...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
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