Winterland
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'Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love (...)
The Bradshaw Variations
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'Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his (...)
A Pale View of Hills
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In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her (...)
An Artist of the Floating World
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'It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings (...)
The Barracks
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''Marvellous.' Susan Hill, The TimesElizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom and loneliness marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened (...)
The Immigrant
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'An engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage, from the prize-winning author of Home and Difficult Daughters.Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and frustrated by how little life has to offer. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; (...)
Original Sin
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'An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryThe Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies a (...)
When We Were Orphans
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'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious (...)
El Secretario Coyote
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El secretario Coyote, eterno soltero, aventurero y de sorprendente moralidad, ocupa un alto cargo en el joven Estado de las Cuatro Grandes Islas. Un paraíso fiscal, con un singular y atractivo paisaje y un hedonista modo de vida que pone el marco a las intrigas de Estado y los crímenes en las altas (...)
Soledad amores
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Huir parece ser propio de los cobardes, sin embargo, este hecho exige la dolorosa determinación de abandonar el camino recorrido, ya habiendo sido éste tortuoso o en apariencia benévolo, y abrigar el sacrificio que acostumbra agigantarse con la presencia de la duda. En Soledad Amoreslos personajes (...)