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The Grief of Others
Leah Cohen
Is keeping a secret from a spouse an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a ...
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older ...
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Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer.
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...
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Disaster Was My God
Bruce Duffy
A skilfully imagined novel based on the scandalous and astonishing life of the pioneering, proto-...
In the space of one year, 1871, with a handful of startling poems, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenaged bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. He was taken in, then taken up, by the older, married poet Paul Verlaine in a passionate affair. When Rimbaud ...
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Dolly
Susan Hill
Susan Hill, author ofWoman in Black, is the greatest living writer of ghost stories, and here is a ...
The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel ...
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The Man in the Picture
Susan Hill
The chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it ... A ghost ...
A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, ...
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Wall Of Days
Alastair Bruce
A stunning novel of guilt and loss and remembering
In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living alone on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to return, even if it ...
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Ru
Kim Thuy
A book of rare beauty:Ruis a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland - and now a ...
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy'sRuis literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In ...
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The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean...
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The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon
An exciting new novel for children 8+ from one of the bestselling children's authors in the world, ...
Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall's Horn. Unable to ...
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The Grief of Others
Leah Cohen
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret ...
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and ...
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Smut
Alan Bennett
Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction
The Shielding of Mrs ForbesGraham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, ...
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Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...
