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The Dark Tower, Book 5

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 0:20:31 PST

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In Wolves of the Calla, volume five of Stephen King's epic fantasy western The Dark Tower, coincidence has, as Eddie Dean observes, been cancelled. Everything the gunslinger Roland and his companions encounter has taken on symbolic significance. So when they come to Calla Bryn Sturgis, named after the director of The Magnificent Seven, its clear that King will follow the classic western archetype ...

Believing the Lie

Sun, 9 Jun 2013 17:30:26 PST

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Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review - not a formal investigation - of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death. Recovering from the murder of his wife, Lynley has personal reasons for welcoming a spell away from London. He heads to the wild beauty of the Lake District, with Deborah a ...

The Red House

Wed, 5 Jun 2013 2:53:34 PST

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Two families. Seven days. One house. After his mother's death, Richard decides to build bridges with his estranged sister Angela, inviting her and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts ...

The Wind Through the Keyhole

Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:26:33 PST

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Join Roland Deschain, gunslinger from Gilead that was, knight errant of a decayed civilization as he and his companions journey towards the distant Dark Tower. Leaving behind the Emerald City, they are confronted by a starkblast, an icy, terrifying storm that stops them in their tracks. Roland begins to spin a story... This is both a stand-alone novel for readers new to the world of the Dark Tow ...

The Art of Fielding

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:34:34 PST

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Leaving the Atocha Station

Tue, 21 May 2013 6:55:30 PST

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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between ...

The Dark Tower, Book 4

Fri, 10 May 2013 7:06:53 PST

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Book 4 of The Dark Tower Saga

Wisdom of Whores

Mon, 6 May 2013 17:34:30 PST

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In "The Wisdom of Whores", epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani brings honesty, wit and startling pragmatism to the tawdry front lines of sex and drugs. She explains how we could shut down HIV in most of the world with a few simple steps, with less money than we already have. We could do it now. But shockingly, it isn't happening. From the back streets to the boardrooms, politics, ideology and cash ha ...

The Dark Tower, Book 3

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:03:09 PST

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The foundations of Black House were built on The Dark Tower series

The Dark Tower, Book 2

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 0:15:50 PST

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Dark Tower: the epic series from which Black House was built.

End of San Francisco

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:33:34 PST

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"Mattilda is a dazzling writer of uncommon truths, a challenging writer who refuses to conform to conventionality. Her agitation is an inspiration."--Justin Torres, author of "We the Animals" "The End of San Francisco" breaks apart the conventions of memoir to reveal the passions and perils of a life that refuses to conform to the rules of straight or gay normalcy. A budding queer activist esca ...

The Dark Tower, Book 1

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 4:55:51 PST

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"An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) "Brilliant, fresh, and compelling...will leave you panting for more." (Booklist)

The Child's Child

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:22:02 PST

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When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house? When Andrew's par ...

A Tale for the Time Being

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 6:08:34 PST

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Within the pages of this book lies the diary of a girl called Nao. Riding the waves of a tsunami, it is making its way across the ocean. It will change the life of the person who finds it. It might just change yours, too.

Still Alice

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 4:41:11 PST

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"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa ...

Fanny and Stella

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:40:09 PST

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28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure. It turned out that the alluring Miss Fanny Park and M ...

We the Animals

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:00:24 PST

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We the Animals . . . is the kind of book that makes a career." "Some books quicken your pulse. Some slow it.

There But for the

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 5:53:57 PST

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There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith. 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party...' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the ...

Wild Animals I Have Known

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 2:15:52 PST

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Kevin Bentley faithfully kept a frank, literate diary of his experiences as a young gay man living in San Francisco in the 1970s. In passages that are arousing, thoughtful, and funny, he details a scene of unrivaled sexual hedonism. First and foremost an erotic record, Wild Animals I Have Known is also the diary of a bookish, terrified, exuberantly promiscuous, and laughably romantic gay mans ex ...

A Widow for One Year

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:13:53 PST

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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth i ...

The Night Circus

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:20:37 PST

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Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.

Esche vive

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 1:42:33 PST

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The Silver Linings Playbook

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 1:41:59 PST

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Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining. Most importantly, Pat is determined to be reconciled with his wife Nikki. Pat's parents just want to protec ...

Music for Torching

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 0:31:19 PST

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As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic.Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens out of control. From a strange and hilarious encounter with a Stepford Wife neighbor to an ill-c ...

Engleby

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:18:21 PST

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Mike Engleby has a secret...This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns into a mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has ever written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wr ...

Imperial Bedrooms

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 2:46:36 PST

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Twenty-five years have passed since the events chronicled in 'Less Than Zero', and Clay Easton, now a successful screenwriter, has returned from a brief stint ...

Il delitto Pasolini

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 1:49:36 PST

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A trent'anni dall'omicidio di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianluca Maconi ricostruisce le ultime ore di vita del poeta, la sua aggressione, le prime indagini che mettono in evidenza da subito le contraddizioni del racconto di Pino Pelosi, considerato dalla giustizia italiana l'unico assassino di Pasolini. Ne esce un ritratto umano e vivido del grande poeta, uno squarcio sui suoi pensieri più intimi, la ...

Instructions for a Heatwave

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:22:49 PST

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The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The se ...

Pilcrow

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:34:32 PST

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Meet John Cromer, one of the most unusual heroes in modern fiction. If the minority is always right then John is practically infallible. Growing up disabled and gay in the 1950's, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense and vivid internal world. As his character develops, this ability to transcend external circumstance through his own strength of character proves an inval ...

The Present and the Past

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 6:43:20 PST

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The Bell

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:07:23 PST

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First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell, but then the old one is rediscovered.

The Snowman

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:19:21 PST

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SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. AND THEN HE WILL APPEAR AGAIN. As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. AND WHEN THE SNOW IS ...

A Discovery of Witches

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:36:03 PST

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It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is ...

Il corpo umano

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:38:00 PST

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È un plotone di giovani ragazzi quello comandato dal maresciallo Antonio René. L’ultimo arrivato, il caporalmaggiore Roberto Ietri, ha appena vent’anni e si sente inesperto in tutto. Per lui, come per molti altri, la missione in Afghanistan è la prima grande prova della vita. Al momento di partire, i protagonisti non sanno ancora che il luogo a cui verranno destinati è uno dei più pericolosi di t ...

A Light-hearted Look at Murder

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 1:31:05 PST

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How legitimate is it to impersonate Adolf Hitler at an office Christmas party? It is a question that German student Andreas Honig is forced to confront when he falls into a job as a lookalike in order to pay his way through university in the UK. Before he knows it, Andreas has been swept into a crazy world where ordinary people make their living by pretending to be famous. And, despite his reserv ...

Last Train from Liguria

Fri, 4 Jan 2013 3:36:03 PST

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From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. "Last Train from Liguria" takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to the heat and bustle of the pre-war Italian Riviera. This is a must-read for fans of books by Rose Tremain and Helen Dunmore. In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet Lo ...

The Birthday Present

Tue, 1 Jan 2013 21:46:32 PST

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Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was ...? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a d ...

London Triptych

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:25:45 PST

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Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships - most notably with the soon-to-be infamous Oscar Wi ...

Regalo di nozze

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 4:20:00 PST

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Ercole Correnti ha ventinove anni, tra qualche giorno si sposa, dopo cinque anni di fidanzamento. In una calda domenica d'agosto, mentre sta andando a pranzo dalla mamma, sul lungolago vede una Fiat 600 bianca. È uguale alla macchina sulla quale lui aveva fatto il primo viaggio della sua vita, vent'anni prima. Con mamma Assunta, papà Amedeo e soprattutto lo zio Pinuccio. Indimenticabile, quella g ...

The Distant Hours

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 2:40:57 PST

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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle wi ...

My Revolutions

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 2:40:19 PST

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It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts - a dead e ...

The Likeness

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 5:05:00 PST

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Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is stran ...

Mansfield Park

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 2:32:47 PST

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Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility", and "Pride and Prejudice", the last of which Austen came to see as 'rather too light.' Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a spl ...

The Song of Achilles

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 6:11:02 PST

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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But ...

Elfland

Fri, 9 Nov 2012 7:20:09 PST

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Annabel

Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:04:49 PST

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In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents and a trusted neighbour. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his fath ...

Margherita Dolcevita

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 3:50:49 PST

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Margherita Dolcevita è una ragazzina allegra, intelligente e appenasovrappeso, con un cuore che di tanto in tanto perde un colpo. Vive con la famiglia fra città e campagna. Un giorno, davanti alla sua casa, spunta, come un fungo, un cubo di vetro nero circondato da un asettico giardino sintetico eda una palizzata di siepi. Sono arrivati i signori Del Bene, i portatori del"nuovo", della beatitudin ...

The Lighthouse

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:58:41 PST

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The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman. In the morning, Futh puts the episode behind him a ...

The Preacher

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:26:27 PST

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For the first time in English, the second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful -- and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth. ...

Gli occhiali d'oro

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 1:08:33 PST

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The Man from Beijing

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 1:30:40 PST

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Mudwoman

Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:47:03 PST

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A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories. Meredith 'M. R.' Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose com ...

1222

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 6:14:37 PST

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1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn br ...

Tigerlily's Orchids

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 2:09:05 PST

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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building and, after some deliberation, even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. They are a disparate group of people, each with their individual Rendellian psychoses and potential for violence. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to i ...

The Tiger's Wife.

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 6:39:28 PST

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Le intermittenze della morte

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:41:54 PST

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In un non meglio identificato Paese, allo scoccare della mezzanotte di un 31 dicembre, s'instaura l'eternità, perché nessuno muore più. L'avvenimento suscita a tutta prima sentimenti di giubilo e felicità, ma crea anche scompiglio in ogni strato sociale: dal governo alle compagnie di assicurazione, dalle agenzie di pompe funebri alle case di riposo e, soprattutto, nella chiesa, la cui voce di pro ...

A Week in December

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:27:34 PST

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As the novel moves to its gripping climax, they are forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit.

The Devotion of Suspect X

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 1:38:45 PST

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Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing qu ...

Tender is the Night

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:35:25 PST

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To the French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver. Handsome, rich and glamorous, their dinners are legendary, their atmosphere magnetic. But something is wrong - Nicole has a secret and Dick a weakness. Together they head towards the rocks on which their lives crash - and only one of them really survives. Fitzgerald worked on seventeen versions of this novel, the obsessions of which consumed his m ...

The Scapegoat

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:34:44 PST

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Damned

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 1:38:37 PST

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Thirteen year old Madison has problems: she's overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She's also dead. But not just dead. Madison is in Hell. Chuck Palahniuk's latest, "Damned", takes us on Madison's journey through Hell, as she navigates the Hillocks of Discarded Nail Pairings and the River of Vomit, meeting everyone from Charles Darwin to Marilyn Mon ...

Harbour

Sun, 2 Sep 2012 16:26:13 PST

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It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home ...

The Museum of Innocence

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:34:12 PST

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The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamu ...

Death Comes to Pemberley

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:13:12 PST

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The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, as the guests are preparing to retire for the night a chaise appears, ...

Forbidden Colours

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:41:16 PST

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Quartet in autumn

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:25:57 PST

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Le luci nelle case degli altri

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 3:27:07 PST

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Mandorla è la bambina felice di una ragazza madre piena di fantasia. Maria, la mamma, lavora come amministratrice d'immobili e ha lo speciale dono di trasformare ogni riunione condominiale in toccanti sedute di terapia di gruppo... Quando un tristissimo giorno Maria muore cadendo dal motorino, i condomini di via Grotta Perfetta 315, quelli che più le volevano bene, scoprono da una lettera che pro ...

The Absolutist

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:58:10 PST

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September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. But in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield and declared himself a conscientious objector, an act which has brought shame and dishonour o ...

Assuming the Position

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 4:33:16 PST

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Rick Whitaker divulges the complex reasons that drove him to prostitution and reflects on the cost of a life of half-truths and emotional lies. With an unsentimental eye, Whitaker chronicles his descent and eventual resolution.

The Great Night

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 4:49:14 PST

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On Midsummer's Eve three heartsick lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Ill met by moonlight, they are stalked by a psychopathic Puck, in thrall to a beautiful Titania, and ambushed by a homeless musical theatre troupe. Together they must survive a night that might just repair their hearts, if it doesn't destroy them first. Selected by the New Yorker as one of the best young w ...

A Perfectly Good Man

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:56:16 PST

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The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller 'Notes from an Exhibition,, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. 'Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?, 'I,m going to die., 'We,re all going to die. Does dying frighten you?, 'I mean I,m going to kill myself., When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the ...

The Pursuit of Love

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:07:58 PST

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Childhood at Alconleigh is scanty preparation for the realities of the outside world and Linda, sweetest and most aimless of the young Radletts, falls prey to a stuffy banker and a rabid communist before she finds her ideal in a Frenchman...

Borrowed Time

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:51:16 PST

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This is Paul Monette's memoir about his relationship with Roger, the great love of his life, and the terrible impact of AIDS on their lives. Other works by the author include "Becoming a Man", which won the 1992 National Book Award for non-fiction.

Throwing Stones at Jonathan

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 0:57:46 PST

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This is the story of a young gay man who goes to London in search of freedom. As he sets out on his journey we see it all from the inside, wearing the narrator's shoes, sharing the route with his friends and lovers.

The Crimson Petal and the White

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:17:41 PST

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Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles ...

The Rules of Attraction

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:41:18 PST

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Wolf Hall

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:46:29 PST

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to gr ...

The Summer Before the Dark

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 0:00:33 PST

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As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the t ...

Fahrenheit 451

Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:55:44 PST

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with ...

Coral Glynn

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 0:26:22 PST

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Nursing an elderly cancer patient in an isolated English countryside manse in 1950, Coral interacts with a disgruntled housekeeper and her charge's sexually torn and war-ravaged son until a child's game in the nearby woods goes violently ...

Freedom

Mon, 28 May 2012 18:45:36 PST

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An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray t ...

Gillespie and I

Tue, 22 May 2012 1:51:32 PST

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As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter ...

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Sun, 20 May 2012 2:25:28 PST

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to confro ...

King of the Badgers

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:08:58 PST

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The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'The Northern Clemency'. Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the fringes of the town, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention. Und ...

Anthem

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:52:44 PST

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A stunning and brilliantly realized future world in which individuality has been crushed is the theme of Ayn Rand's bestselling masterpiece, "Anthem". Rand presents her tale of a man who dares to make individual choices, to seek knowledge in a dark age, to love the woman of his choice. In a society in which people have no name, no independence, and no values, he is hunted for the unpardonable cri ...

The Sea, the Sea

Tue, 1 May 2012 16:14:22 PST

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When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seas ...

Cranford - Cousin Phillis

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:58:23 PST

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First published in serial form in Dickens's Household Words, Cranford was to achieve immense popularity as a piece of 'exquisite social painting' - 'delightful', 'tender' and 'delicate'. However, while its charm is undeniable, it is also a book of the most profound sensitivity, at times painfully moving, written in tones of affectionate irony and understatement. Its analysis of an early Victorian ...

Pure

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:15:49 PST

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A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial ...

The Somnambulist

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 5:33:59 PST

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'Some secrets are better left buried...' When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels, who heralds dramatic changes in the lives of all ...

The Leftovers

Sun, 8 Apr 2012 18:04:23 PST

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What if - whoosh, right now, with no explanation - a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside-down? That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. Because nothing ha ...

The Sense of an Ending

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:44:34 PST

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City of Night

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 6:50:59 PST

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John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963.

Chapman's Odyssey

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:42:51 PST

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Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn't like hospitals. Furthermore, Dr Pereira's wonder drug is causing some strange side effects: he can hear more than the usual quotient of voices. First, it is his mother, acerbic and disappointed in him as ever, but then more and more voices add their differing notes and stories to the chorus, squabbling, cajoling and commenting. Friends from childhood, lov ...

La legge dell'odio

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:13:03 PST

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Dolente, osceno, irrimediabile. Il romanzo che per la prima volta svela il fascino e l'orrore della violenza nera. Per il ventenne Stefano Guerra la violenza è bellezza e l'odio una legge nuovissima e antica. C'erano anche lui e i suoi camerati a combattere contro la polizia in un lontano giorno del 1968, in Italia, a Roma, a Valle Giulia. Da quel giorno la vita del giovanissimo neofascista coin ...

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 1:39:19 PST

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The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s. This is a world where people emerge from cheap lodgi ...

The Letters

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:51:54 PST

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UP the long hill from the station at St.-Cloud, Lizzie West climbed in the cold spring sunshine. As she breasted the incline, she noticed the first waves of wistaria over courtyard railings and the high lights of new foliage against the walls of ivy-matted gardens; and she thought again, as she had thought a hundred times before,that she had never seen so beautiful a spring.

The Stranger's Child

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:09:40 PST

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This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will ha ...

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:48:42 PST

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In his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, John Weir reveals how the heady promise of one decade was challenged by the unimaginable grief of the next, and how that earlier promise was preserved by bravery, compassion, and the healing ...