The Striped World
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With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings (...)
Vendetta
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Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk.
Season's Greetings
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Now we don t want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk just out of sight, it s the adults who are (...)
Palo Alto
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Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place. Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often (...)
Hate: A Romance
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In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism - come to an end. As Elizabeth (...)
Travelling Songs
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Simon Armitage once observed that there are two types of poems - those that try to work out the chemical equation for language, and those that tell stories and sings songs. These are very much the latter, a handful of lyrics and verses written over number of years, many being commissioned to (...)
Pax Britannica
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Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the (...)
Cloudcuckooland
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From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a powerful Russian telescope. The sequence of eighty-eight poems at the heart of CloudCuckooLand springs from this preoccupation, each poem receiving its (...)
The Universal Home Doctor
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As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against the ultimate and (...)
Seeing Things
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This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, (...)
Moortown Diary
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Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother, are joined in The Haw Lantern by meditations (...)
New and Selected Poems
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Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either gardening or farming. The introduction and notes (added in 1989) sketch in the (...)
The Cinder Path
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Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published (...)
The Price of Everything
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Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as (...)
Touching From a Distance
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The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of a group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. Her radio play 'Three Women', also included here, was written slightly earlier, in the transitional period of The Colossus and Ariel.'A book (...)
Finders Keepers
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The term culture . . . includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, 19th century (...)
Coronation Everest
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Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: 'How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, (...)
The Invention of Solitude
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As he grew up, Andrew O Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life. Through the reported essays that first made O (...)
Travels in the Scriptorium
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'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'
A Long Long Way
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Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is (...)
The Carhullan Army
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The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. (...)
The Underground Man
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One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English aristocrat. The duke has just completed a network of tunnels beneath his estate. His health is failing, but his imagination seems to know no bounds. And while he spends (...)
Five Boys
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Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the local ladies half to death. Things have never been the same since the evacuee arrived and the Five (...)
Be Near Me
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When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his (...)
Personality
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Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, living at the centre of her family's dream of fame, Maria is an extraordinary girl making ready to escape the ordinary life.We first meet her amidst the faded (...)
LA ÚNICA Y VERDADERA RUTA DE DON QUIJOTE
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El Quijote es la biblia del ser hispánico. En esta obra están recogidas las claves de lo que es y representa España. Es por ello que se han escrito miles y miles de trabajos para diseccionarlo y analizarlo desde múltiples perspectivas. Y, sin embargo, no deja de sorprendernos, buena prueba es este (...)
Encierro y Fuga de San Juan de Aquitania
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"Encierro y fuga de San Juan de Aquitania es una novela breve de ficción con un latido rápido. En todo momento mantiene al lector inquieto y en suspense. Comienza con la compra de un cuadro que nunca debió salir de la pequeña iglesia de un pueblo extremeño. La relación de este lienzo con fuerzas (...)
La Canción del Pirata
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"Esta novela es quizás la obra más conocida de Fernando Quiñones. La segunda parte del título se corresponde a la legítima voluntad de bautizo del autor. Juan Cantueso, como protagonista, queda representado como arquetipo de pícaro gaditano del siglo XVII. El dinamismo de la novela nos hará (...)
Vueltas sin Fecha
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"El submundo de las drogas en la costa gaditana impregna la atmósfera de esta novela en la que jóvenes desheredados, que ya no pueden vivir de los esquilmados recursos de la pesca de bajura, optan por El Dorado que ofrece un capo forasta a quien nadie conoce. Fernando Quiñones vuelve a dar voz (...)
The Girl Savage
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Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in London, Southern Africa and Brussels. She graduated with a double first in English from St Catherine's College, Oxford, worked for a brief stint on the South Bank Show and in 2008 was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book was (...)
Cedilla
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Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as "peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by the Sunday Times as "truly exhilarating". These huge and sparkling books are particularly surprising coming from a writer of previously (let s (...)
The Red Coffin
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In the end, I learned that even if you re a small hamster, you can never have too many friends!Your furry friend,
School According to Humphrey
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Dear Friends,After a fur-raising holiday at Camp Happy Hollow, I looked forward to returning to Room 26 to see all my old friends.Mrs. Brisbane was still there, but I was shocked to find the classroom full of strangers, like Rolling Rosie, Hurry-Up-Harry and Forgetful Phoebe. At first, all I wanted (...)
Smokeheads
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Doug Johnstone is a freelance journalist and the author of two previous novels, Tombstoning and The Ossians, described by Irvine Welsh as a drug-fuelled, counter-clockwise state-of-the-nation rock 'n' roll tour and by Ian Rankin as a powerful and moving commentary on the country and its defining (...)
QI: Advanced Banter
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The Worcestershire Sauce of conversation. Stephen Fry
Huecos de un mismo Dios
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Todo comienza con la aparición de un cadáver en una vivienda alterando el tranquilo vecindario y despertando toda clase de comentarios. No sabemos quién es el muerto que es trasladado por la policía. Comienzan las investigaciones dirigidas por dos inspectores: Ruano y Santos. Meses antes Antonio (...)
Los rincones del alma
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Los rincones del alma nace con la idea de sacar a la luz esas emociones, vivencias y sucedidos, que a lo largo de los años permanecían tímidamente guardadas en lo más recóndito del subconsciente, hasta el punto de que no resultaba fácil el acceso. Ha sido una tarea compleja, laboriosa y difícil, (...)
Del color del fuego
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A finales de octubre de 2005 fallece doña Rafaela Mendoza. Su hijo, Anastasio Larrea, recibe las condolencias de su tío Marcelo, que reaparece tras años de ausencia, de las amigas de su madre, con las que tenía por costumbre reunirse a tomar el té antes de que la enfermedad la postrase, de sus (...)
ESTRICTAMENTE PLACER/ DESPERTANDO A LA TENTACION
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Estrictamente placer LAS REGLAS DE UN COMPROMISO FINGIDO Las condiciones: la proveedora de catering, Chelsea Hammond, vivirá con el inversor de seguros, David Wolfe, durante tres meses con el fin de que él consiga un gran ascenso. Recién llegada de París, Chelsea, a cambio, utilizará la cocina de (...)
INTUICIONES DEL CORAZON
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Donde los deseos son caballos, los amantes cabalgarán. Los caballos eran parte de la vida de Logan, así que cuando le ofrecieron participar en una competición de doma de caballos salvajes con una joven sargento, aceptó sin dudarlo. Mary Tutan era una mujer fuerte, pero vulnerable, que también (...)