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 (...)
The Unconsoled
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'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita BrooknerRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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; (...)
Hoors
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'Small Town, Fife. Andy and Vicky were meant to be getting married tomorrow.The trouble is, Andy s stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn t survive it. The finest pleasures that Amsterdam and Hamburg have to offer, together with a mile-high fling with a budget-airline stewardess, (...)
Mum Shop
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'Ever wished you could swap your mum? Be careful what you wish for . . .MUM TROUBLE!Oli wants to swap his mum for someone who ll let him eat loads of pepperoni pizza and watch Real Blood Bath Murders on telly.Mother 44 drives a tank and trains secret agents.But she s also hatching an evil (...)
Birthday Letters
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'Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his (...)
Tales from Ovid
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'When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account (...)
Crow
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'Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, (...)
Gabriel's Gift
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The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father.Fending for himself, as well as providing emotional support to (...)
The Black Album
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The Black Album is the second novel by Hanif Kureishi, one of the most praised and influential writers of our times. It is set in London in 1989, the year after the second acid-fuelled 'summer of love' - also the year in which the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced his infamous fatwa upon Salman (...)
Buddha of Suburbia
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Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award A wonderful novel. I doubt I will read a funnier one, or one with more heart, this year, possibly this decade. Angela Carter, GuardianThe hero of Hanif Kureishi s first novel is Karim, a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and (...)
The Tin Men
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Dazzlingly funny.' ObserverWhy not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automaton Research they are doing just that to free mankind for the really stimulating and demanding tasks (...)
Stage Directions
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Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn s theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into theatre: the doubtful beginnings of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly (...)
Spies
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In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have (...)
The Big Lebowsk
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Imaginative, funny and dazzlingly clever. John Carey, Sunday TimesMankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would it even be so vast, without the (...)
The Human Touch
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A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is (...)
Towards the End of the Morning
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Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a (...)
A Landing on the Sun
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Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Díaz as one of contemporary fiction s most exhilarating new (...)
Northline
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Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. An (...)
Liberty
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Delightful and witty … Angier proves that our lives are enriched when we start understanding what science is all about. Michael Taube, Financial TimesAn inspiring and imaginative tour through the basics of science, from astronomy to biology and beyond. New York Times science writer Natalie Angier (...)
The Canon
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In Sparta, southern Greece, a close-knit group search for the buried traces of a formidable ancient power. A latecomer, Ben Mercer finds himself drawn to their brilliance and charisma: to the double-edged friendship of his countryman Jason, the unsettling beauty of the women, Natsuko and Eleschen, (...)
The Motel Life
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A universal story of love, family and betrayal, John the Revelator is narrated in the compelling voice of an introverted, watchful adolescent, John Devine. Stuck in a small town, worried over by his single mother the chain-smoking, bible-quoting Lily and the gregarious but sinister Mrs Nagle, (...)
Alan Bennett Plays 2
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This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of (...)
The Madness of George III
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George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power.Alan Bennett's play explores the court of a (...)
New and Selected Poems
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This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or (...)
El cantor de las serenatas sin alma
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El autor narra las vicisitudes de un joven uruguayo, Irineo Salbo, que llega a París, tras haber ganado un concurso literario con una novela plagiada. En su lucha por sobrevivir, se presta a pruebas como cobayo en laboratorios franceses que terminarán perturbando en muchos aspectos su percepción de (...)
O Doido e a Morte
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"Um farsa em um acto escrita em 1923 por Raul Brandão (1867-1930). Um homem misterioso irrompe no gabinete do ""Governador"" e ameaça fazer explodir uma bomba que diz trazer consigo. O que se segue é uma obra-prima do diálogo de humor e do duplo sentido."
Jornada de retorno
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Milagros Salvador ha recorrido un camino lo suficientemente largo para poder ahora detenerse a mirar. No se trata en este caso de hacer una simple parada o de tomarse un descanso, por muy merecido que éste pudiera ser. Se trata de algo mucho más profundo, de mucho más alcance. Detenerse a mirar, (...)
SERVILLETAS
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Las palabras son unos bichos repugnantes que actúan como las sanguijuelas pegándose a la superficie de las hojas y chupando de su blanca emanación hasta hincharse y ponerse a reposar. Eso son las palabras para Cristian Cámara. Aquello única y exclusivamente con lo que está construido este (...)
UN PASO A LO DESCONOCIDO
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Desde la perspectiva de un futuro siempre inquietantemente próximo, Un paso a lo desconocido nos presenta una serie de relatos que abordan aspectos fundamentales de la sociedad humana incidiendo de forma marcada en su faceta más emocional. Partiendo de la influencia de los más importantes (...)
METEMPSICOSIS
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El término Metempsicosis define cierta doctrina religiosa y filosófica que postula la transmigración de las almas de un cuerpo a otro. Una transmigración que Jesús Serrano lleva a cabo entre los protagonistas y los propios lectores de esta compilación de relatos que comienza precisamente con el que (...)
QUÉ HACER PARA MORIR ASESINADO
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Qué hacer para morir asesinado son trece relatos de la más variada índole que cuentan como nexo de unión el peligro de una muerte más o menos inesperada de uno de sus protagonistas. Con un estilo ornamentado y cuidado hasta el más pequeño de los detalles, Paco Tejedo nos conduce con maestría a (...)
EL AÑO QUE FUI VALIENTE
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Tom, un joven periodista musical que acaba de ser abandonado por su novia, trata de dar un vuelco a su vida huyendo de la desidia y la melancolía que lo tienen aprisionado. Producto de esa decisión, decide dejar las drogas y el alcohol y someterse a una terapia psicológica, que, junto a su labor de (...)
PALABRAS AL VIENTO
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Palabras al viento es una recopilación de relatos de la más diversa índole temática, escritos con una prosa extremadamente cuidada y que tienen en común un estilo afilado e irónico. Estas palabras, reunidas al vuelo, dibujan en el aire estampas cotidianas de personajes azuzados por los sentimientos (...)
OLAS GIGANTES
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En esta compleja y magnífica narración, Borja Menéndez y Amador Viejo nos relatan las vidas cruzadas de una serie de personajes que se ven atrapados en una telaraña de destinos. Utilizando de marco la Rusia prerrevolucionaria, los bajos fondos de Buenos Aires a principios del siglo XX, las batallas (...)
EL BIERZO EN LOS TIEMPOS DEL WÓLFRAM
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Susanne y Sonny Morgan, una joven pareja irlandesa, siguiendo las indicaciones de Laureano, un refugiado de la guerra civil española que había llegado navegando hasta las costas de Irlanda, deciden viajar hasta el Bierzo en busca de fortuna. Allí conocen a Sebastián Anglada, marqués de Pereje, un (...)
Desorden
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Perdidos en un tiempo en el que estructuras y nociones indelebles hasta la fecha, como los conceptos de realidad o identidad, se han visto cuestionados por las más diversas teorías lingüísticas, filosóficas y científicas, los personajes de de esta novela andan huérfanos y perdidos de cualquier (...)
Pan-rea`n
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El mundo de Pan-rea n está en peligro de desaparición. Sus dioses han decidido que ya ha llegado el momento de que se cumpla la Profecía. Los encargados de llevarla a cabo serán unos seres, los humanos, que hacía muchos milenios habían sido desterrados a otro mundo muy lejano, la Tierra, para (...)