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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
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WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence – street cricket, barbecues, painting windows… A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for ever. Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is an astonishing debut.
Even the Dogs
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WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who discovers the body and futiley searches for his other friends to share the news of Robert's death; Laura, Robert's daughter, who stumbles into the junky's life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather, who has her own place for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks, hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by a stronger need, and the havoc wrought by drugs, distress, and the disregard of the wider world. These invisible people live in a parallel reality, out of reach of basic creature comforts, like food and shelter. In their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives. Intense, exhilarating, and shot through with hope and fury, Even the Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society – littered with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption.
Back Room Girl: By the author of Paul Temple
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Never published in paperback, and back in print for the first time since 1950, Back Room Girl was the first original novel by Francis Durbridge. Retiring to No Man’s Cove in Cornwall to write his memoirs, crime reporter Roy Benton discovers that a disused tin mine has become a research station for a secret weapons project. Karen Silvers, in charge of operations, reluctantly accepts that Benton’s experience could help her fight a sinister organisation intent on stealing their plans. Having adapted five of his Paul Temple radio serials into successful novelisations, in 1950 Francis Durbridge decided to try his hand at writing his first original novel. Back Room Girl bore all the hallmarks of the famous Paul Temple stories, an outlandish mixture of mystery, glamour and suspense, in a book that was never reprinted and so became an enigma to his many fans – until now. Includes an introduction by bibliographer Melvyn Barnes plus two rare short stories written for Christmas annuals: LIGHT-FINGERS and A PRESENT FROM PAUL TEMPLE.
A Piece of the World
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‘Graceful, moving and powerful . . . a wonderful story that seems to have been waiting, all this time, for Kline to come along and tell it’ MICHAEL CHABON For decades, Christina Olson’s whole world has been a rocky, windswept point on the coast of Maine, the farmhouse her ancestors fled to from the Salem witch trials. A world she fears she will never leave. As a girl, farm life asked more of Christina than it did her family, her wasting limbs turning every task into a challenge. But the very tenacity that strengthened her may dash her chances for a life beyond her chores and extinguish her hopes for love. Years pass and Christina’s solitude is broken by the arrival of Andrew Wyeth, a young artist who is fixated on the isolated farm house. In Christina he will discover more than a kindred spirit; for him, she will become a muse like no other… From the bestselling author of ORPHAN TRAIN comes a luminous portrait of a woman of grit and grace, as heartwarming as it is gripping. A story that allows the reader to marvel at Andrew Wyeth’s iconic portrait from the other side.
The Black Painting
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An enthralling well-written mystery for readers who enjoyed The Keeper of Lost Things and The Improbability of Love. A dead body. A family torn apart. Someone is lying. Years ago, a forgotten Goya masterpiece was stolen from Teresa’s family home, a crumbling mansion at Owl’s Point. Ever since, Teresa has stayed away, terrified of the rumours surrounding the Black Painting and the jealous accusations that tore apart her family. Now her grandfather has summoned his descendants back to the mansion to discuss his will, and Teresa knows she has no choice except to return. But when she arrives, she finds the door hanging open and her grandfather dead, his eyes open and staring at the empty space where the Goya once hung. Someone in the family is lying, but will Teresa unravel the mystery of the missing painting before it is too late?
Fireside Gothic
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Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed TV drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, The Scent of Death and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice. He has won many awards, including the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America, the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger, awarded for sustained excellence in crime writing. He also writes for the Spectator. He lives with his wife Caroline in the Forest of Dean.
The Blue Flower
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his father’s permission to announce his engagement to his heart’s desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking? Tracing the dramatic early years of the young German who was to become the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, ‘The Blue Flower’ is a masterpiece of invention, evoking the past with a reality that we can almost feel.
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
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A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London’s Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Watkins, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world, as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday… ‘Briefing for a Descent into Hell’ is one of Doris Lessing’s most brilliantly achieved novels, linking her early work, which explored the nature of subjectivity, with her later experiments in science fiction. Its indictment of the tyranny of society is powerful, disturbing and, as always, magnificently rendered.
The Stone Book Quartet
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A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester. Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements, and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that has somehow, somewhere been lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore that lost world in simple, searching prose.
Sfinxul
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Ea nu-i poate l?sa s-o prind?, ei nu o pot l?sa in via??.05:36. O femeie alearg? pe Lion’s Head. Este t?n?r?, frumoas?, american?. ?i ?ngrozit?, c?ci este v?n?ta ca un animal.05:37. Inspectorul Bennie Griessel este trezit de ??r?itul telefonului. O femeie a fost ucis?, iar trupul ei zace ?n strad?.07:02. Mahmura, Alexa Barnard, o fosta vedet? pop, devenit? ?ntre timp alcoolic?, descoper? pe podea corpul so?ului ei, fondator ?i director al casei de discuri AfriSound.P?n? la ora 9, cu dou? crime de rezolvat ?i o poft? nebun? s? bea ceva, Griessel ?n?elege c? sarcina de a ?ndruma noua genera?ie de poli?i?ti de la omucideri este ceva mai complicat? dec?t anticipase el.Dup? pr?nz, cursa de salvare a tinerei turiste devine disperat? ?i haotic?, iar pu?in ?nainte de 17:30, Greissel este ?mpu?cat drept ?n inim?.O zi destul de normal?, treisprezece ore tipice de investiga?ie a unei crime ?n Cape Town.?De departe cel mai bun autor sud-african de romane poli?iste.“ The Guardian?Cu Deon Meyer n-ai cum s? dai gre?. ?mi plac c?r?ile lui, le a?tept cu ner?bdare ?i apoi, pur ?i simplu, le devorez.“ Michael Connely?Eroii lui sunt perfect integra?i ?n noua Africa de Sud, unde loialitatea ?i credin?a trebuie puse ?ntotdeauna sub semnul ?ntreb?rii.“ Financial Times (UK)?Parte rom?n poli?ist, parte istorie social? ?n Africa de Sud postapartheid – un amestec palpitant, condimentat cu accente de cruzime ?i de justi?ie ?n stare brut?.“ PeopleNominalizare la Premiul Dagger Interna?ional 2010. Le Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. Roman publicat ?n 21 de ??ri
Un singur lucru
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Tr?ind de azi pe m?ine ?ntr-un Bucure?ti plin de tenta?ii, dar consumator de resurse, studentul la Drept Mihnea B?iatu nu ?i-a dat examenele, iar ob?inerea licen?ei ?ncepe s? semene cu un vis imposibil. A ?nv??at ?ns? cum s? c??tige ?ncrederea cet??enilor s?raci cu duhul – ?i nu e pu?in lucru.Plasat ?ntr-un decor suburban, cu personaje caragialiene, Mihnea B?iatu se ?nscrie ?ns?, f?r? doar ?i poate, ?n tipologia eroilor lui Gib I. Mih?escu, urm?ri?i de idealul femeii absolute. Expert ?n practicile ?amorului democrat“ ?i ?n escrocarea cu sistem – erotic? ?i financiar? – a propriet?reselor de mahala, eternul student d? nas ?n nas pe culoarele universit??ii cu femeia perfect?, care-l scruteaz? ?i ea, cu acela?i interes, prin lentila unui lornion de aur…
Alimente care ucid creierul. Cerealele, zah?rul ?i al?i carbohidra?i
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În via?a lui Hercule Poirot, nici m?car o programare la dentist nu poate avea loc f?r? s? se întâmple o crim?, iar de data aceasta, cel ucis este însu?i dentistul. Dar, în timp ce poli?ia consider? moartea acestuia drept sinucidere, Poirot ?tie mai bine care este adev?rul, iar curând vor mai fi omorâte ?i alte persoane. S? fie aceste crime verigi ale lan?ului revolu?ionar menit s? r?stoarne ordinea democratic? din Marea Britanie în tulburele deceniu patru al secolului XX? S? fie neatr?g?toarea ?i banala domni?oar? Seale un geniu al crimei? Ca la un joc de c?r?i, Poirot are sentimentul c? i se for?eaz? mâna într-o anume direc?ie a investiga?iei. Agatha Christie î?i ?ese din nou intriga palpitant? cu o m?iestrie de neegalat, oferindu-le cititorilor un deznod?mânt absolut surprinz?tor.
O s?pt?m?n? ?n decembrie
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Delicatee i for, stihuri-volute i umor, uimitoare bogie de limbaj i sensibilitate incandescent, poezie-n proz i invers. Emoie. Sau o sinecdoc splendid. Trebuie not de subsol“ Rzvan PetrescuCine-a spus Madame Bovary c’est moi a fost detept. Aa e i scrisul Anei Barton: i place, te excit i apoi te rcorete. Rmi, dup lectur, cu senzaia de ntlnire rar.“ Ara eptiliciIronic, dar ludic. Dulce, dar muctor. Brocat, delicat i cu un sim al detaliului precum o dantel frivolité. Prospect de femeie se ia pe nemncate, pe inima goal, cci o umple cu vrf i ndesat. Nu are contraindicaii, iar supradozajul este recomandabil pentru cord i neuron.“ Petronela RotarVine n literatur dinspre publicistic. i o face n for, cu o plcere acaparant a povestirii. Posed tiina fermecrii cititorului datorit firescului i lipsei de inhibiii. Ana Barton are toate atuurile unei scriitoare de excepie.“ Alexandru Petria
T?cere
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Nu mi e fric de moarte. tiu c ntr-o zi va suna telefonul c s-a dus mama-mare, care are aproape 90 de ani acum. C se va duce tata, care, deja jumtate paralizat, e jumtate mort. C ntr-o zi va pleca i mama. Apoi sper s urmez, firesc, eu. Dar dac nu va fi aa, ci altfel, tiu de pe acum c nimic nu e ntmpltor i prin asta trebuie s trec. Nu o s m mai ntreb cu disperare: de ce mie Sunt leciile mele, crucile mele de dus. M tiu cu moartea bine, iar proximitatea ei m-a fcut doar excepional de vie.“Exist necesare i salvatoare guri de aer. Guri de ap. La o adic, i-o gur de lacrimi poate face o treab foarte bun: te mntuiete de-un AVC. Trind ns cteva zile cu ochi i mini n cartea Petronelei Rotar, am fost obligat la o revelaie: gura de cuvinte. Una rarisim, de-o frumusee care frizeaz visul, roie-camelie, pletoric, dulce-amruie i parfumat cu licorile secrete ale Semiramidei. Nu s-a nscut ca s-o priveti de la distan, s te uimeti departe. i se deschide a srut fierbinte, cteodat cast, alt dat tremurat, iar de ndat ce-ai atins-o, du-te ncet ctre oglind, cu ochii-nchii. Deschide-i i privete: este a ta. Respir. Gura asta de cuvinte-inim eti tu. (Ana Barton)
Sora
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n vreme ce alte adolescente viseaz cu ochii deschii la biei, Calla Tor i cunoate deja destinul: la terminarea liceului, fata-lup va deveni partenera masculului alfa Ren Laroche, alturi de care va conduce o nou hait de lupi Gardieni, luptnd umr la umr pentru a apra, chiar cu preul vieii, locurile sacre ale Pzitorilor.Dar, dup ce ncalc legile strvechi ale stpnilor ei salvndu-l de la moarte pe frumosul muritor Shay, ncetul cu ncetul, Calla ncepe s pun la ndoial soarta care i-a fost hrzit, propria existen i ntreaga ei lume. Secrete adnc ngropate ies uor-uor la suprafa i, odat cu ele, devine tot mai clar c nimic nu este ceea ce pare a fi. Ea tie c, dac ascult chemarea inimii, va pierde totul – poate chiar i propria via. Merit oare o iubire interzis sacrificiul suprem O lume seductoare, complicat, n care oamenii sunt pionii unei puternice haite de vrcolaci i nimic nu este ceea ce pare. Am stat cu sufletul la gur pn la ultima pagin.“ – Becca Fitzpatrick, autoarea seriei ngerul Nopii
The Night Brother
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‘A rich and ambitious tale … Garland's prose is a delight: playful and exuberant’ THE TIMES From the author of The Palace of Curiosities and Vixen comes a dazzling and provocative novel of adventure and belonging. Rich are the delights of late nineteenth-century Manchester for young siblings Edie and Gnome. They bicker, banter, shout and scream their way through the city’s streets, embracing its charms and dangers. But as the pair grow up, it is Gnome who revels in the night-time, while Edie wakes exhausted each morning, unable to quell a sickening sense of unease, with only a dim memory of the dark hours. Confused and frustrated at living a half-life, she decides to take control, distancing herself from Gnome once and for all. But can she ever be free from someone who knows her better than she knows herself? Perfect for fans of Angela Carter, Sarah Waters and Erin Morgenstern and with echoes of Orlando and Jekyll & Hyde, this is a story about the vital importance of being honest with yourself. Every part of yourself. After all, no-one likes to be kept in the dark…
The Reckoning
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One killer with everything to lose. One man with nothing to fear. The 6th historical thriller featuring Matthew Hawkwood, Bow Street Runner and Spy, now hunting a killer on the loose in Regency London. London, 1813: Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is summoned to a burial ground and finds the corpse of a young woman, murdered and cast into an open grave. At first the death is deemed to be of little consequence. But when Chief Magistrate James Read receives a direct order from the Home Office to abandon the case, Hawkwood’s interest is piqued. His hunt for the killer will lead him from London’s backstreets into the heart of a government determined to protect its secrets at all costs. Only Hawkwood’s contacts within the criminal underworld can now help. As the truth behind the girl’s murder emerges, setting in motion a deadly chain of events, Hawkwood learns the true meaning of loyalty – and that the enemy is much closer to home than he ever imagined…
The Case of the Gilded Fly: A Gervase Fen Mystery
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The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. A pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men’s lives is found dead in a college room just yards from the office of the unconventional Oxford don Gervase Fen. Anyone who knew the girl would gladly have shot her, but can Fen discover who did shoot her, and why? Published during the Second World War, The Case of the Gilded Fly introduced English professor and would-be detective Gervase Fen, one of crime fiction’s most irrepressible and popular sleuths. A classic locked-room mystery filled with witty literary allusions, it was the debut of ‘a new writer who calls himself Edmund Crispin’ (in reality the choral and film composer Bruce Montgomery), later described by The Times as ‘One of the last exponents of the classical English detective story . . . elegant, literate, and funny.’ This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by Douglas G. Greene, who reveals how Montgomery’s ambition to emulate John Dickson Carr resulted in a string of successful and distinctive Golden Age detective novels and an invitation from Carr himself to join the exclusive Detection Club.
Babbit
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„Nu cunosc nici un alt roman american care s? prezinte cu mai mult? acurate?e adev?rata Americ?. [Babbitt] este un document social de prim rang.“ – H.L. Mencken, cronic? la apari?ia romanului, 1922 „Mi-a? dori s? fi scris eu Babbitt.“ – H.G. Wells „Babbitt este un om de afaceri modest, nu îndeajuns de important pentru a lupta cu institu?iile sacre c?rora americanul de rând ?i-a vândut sufletul ca s? se poat? bucura de pace ?i prosperitate. Înfrângerea sa, descris? cu for?a, admirabila în?elepciune ?i umorul unui mare scriitor, este înfrângerea unei întregi na?iuni. De aceea cartea a provocat o atât de profund? tulburare în America ?i a avut un succes atât de durabil. În spiritul acesta trebuie s? o citim dac? vrem s-o în?elegem ?i s? fim impresiona?i de ceea ce are ea s? ne transmit?.“ – Paul Morand „[Lewis ...] a administrat Statelor Unite un pumn drept în plexul solar, a imortalizat un personaj tipic american ?i a ad?ugat limbii noastre câteva cuvinte care au devenit moned? curent?.“ – The Times Clasici moderni Litera pune laolalt? scriitori moderni ale c?ror opere au devenit deja repere clasice. Cele mai importante, mai provocatoare, mai emo?ionante, mai revolu?ionare opere din ultimii 125 de ani – c?r?i care vor continua s? fie citite de la o genera?ie la alta.
Suicide's Girlfriend
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Elizabeth Evans traces the complex and often painful threads of human relationships in Suicide's Girlfriend, her most inspired work to date. In these richly textured stories, you'll meet:Oyekan, a confused young Nigerian student who wrestles with feelings his U.S. friends cannot understand.Marie, an adolescent who makes a carefully philosophized, end-of-the-rope stab at salvation for herself and her seven abused siblings.Jenny and Heather, two girls whose friendship has suffered from the distractions of adolescence and the cruelty of one moving on while the other must sit idly by and watch.A group of college boys, whose discovery of a dead body on the side of the road leaves one of them changed in ways he never thought possible.Elegant, acute, and engaging, Suicide's Girlfriend will introduce you to these characters and more, their stories, and an incredible new voice in fiction.
A Night Without Armor
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One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies. Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry. Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed. Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.
