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Nielsen BookData Online The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction Fereshteh Ahmadi (Edited by) Atoosa Afshin-Navid (Author) Fereshteh Ahmadi (Author) Kourosh Asadi (Author) Azardokht Bahrami (Author) Hamed Habibi (Author) Mohammad Hosseini (Author) Amir-Hossein Khorshidfar (Author) Payam Nasser (Author) Goli Taraghi (Author) Mohammad Tolouei (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781910974247 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-24-7 ISBN10: 1910974242 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Acts of Infidelity Lena Andersson (Author) Saskia Vogel (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
14 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h196mm x w130mm x s29mm 241g ISBN13: 9781509841134 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-4113-4 ISBN10: 150984113X EAN: 9781509841134 x Description: 'A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor. It gripped me from first page to last. Fantastic!'Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely BonesWhen Ester Nilsson meets the actor Olof Sten, she falls madly in love.Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless start to meet regularly and begin to conduct a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn't plan to leave his wife, but he doesn't object to this new situation either . . . it's far too much fun.Ester, on the other hand, is convinced that things might change. But as their relationship continues over repeated summers of distance, and winters of heated meetings in bars, she is forced to realize the truth: Ester Nilsson has become a mistress.To read Acts of Infidelity is to dive inside the mind of a brilliant, infuriating friend - Ester's and Olof's entanglements and arguments are the stuff of relationship nightmares. Cutting, often cruel, and written with razor-sharp humour, Lena Andersson's novel is clever, painful, maddening, but most of all perfectly, precisely true. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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I'm Staying Here Marco Balzano (Author) Jill Foulston (Translated by) Series:
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Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781789545081 ISBN13: 978-1-78954-508-1 ISBN10: 1789545080 EAN: 9781789545081 x Description: Curon, 1920. In a small village in South Tyrol, Trina longs for a different life. She dedicates herself to becoming a teacher, but the year that she qualifies Mussolini's regime abolishes the use of German as a teaching language. In this new climate of fear and uncertainty Trina works for a clandestine network of schools in the valley, always with the risk of capture. Curon, 1939. Now married and a mother Trina's life is again thrown into uncertainty when Germany anounces the 'Great choice' and communities in South Tyrol are given the opportunity to move to Germany. The town splits and ever-increasing rifts form among its people. Those, like Trina and her family, who choose not to leave are seen as traitors and spies; they can no longer leave the house without suffering abuse. Then one day Trina comes home and finds that her daughter is missing... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ARTEMISIA Anna Banti (Author) Shirley D'Ardia Caracciolo (Translated by) Susan Sontag (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Small Axes
Publisher:
HopeRoad Publishing Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 248pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781913109004 ISBN13: 978-1-913109-00-4 ISBN10: 1913109003 x Description: First published in 1953, Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Artemisia, a novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, an iconic 17th century painter, by Anna Banti, a brilliant Italian art historian, established itself as a feminist masterpiece. Like Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower and Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, Artemisia is a book about the process of artistic creation. Much in Gentileschi's life marked her out as a victim - rape at the age of 18, a forced marriage to a man she did not love and, a powerful, patriarchal father, Orazio Gentileschi, who failed to value her artistic genius. But Gentileschi did not accept the status of victim, in the years between 1610 and 1650, she produced over 50 paintings that have established her as one of the great painters of all time. She gave up everything - "all tenderness, all claim to feminine virtues" to dedicate herself solely to painting. Sacrifices that Anna Banti, herself an artist, fully understands and captures in this amazing novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Redemption of Time Baoshu (Author) Ken Liu (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781788542227 ISBN13: 978-1-78854-222-7 ISBN10: 1788542223 EAN: 9781788542227 x Description: Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. Death is no release for Yun Tianming - merely the first step on a journey that will place him on the frontline of a war that has raged since the beginning of time. At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming died. He was flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft and launched on a trajectory to intercept the Trisolaran First Fleet. It was a desperate plan, a Trojan gambit almost certain to fail. But there was an infinitesimal chance that the aliens would find rebooting a human irresistible, and that someday, somehow, Tianming might relay valuable information back to Earth. And so he did. But not before he betrayed humanity. Now, after millennia in exile, Tianming has a final chance at redemption. A being calling itself The Spirit has recruited him to help wage war against a foe that threatens the existence of the entire universe. A challenge he will accept, but this time Tianming refuses to be a mere pawn... He has his own plans. Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. You'll discover why the universe is a 'dark forest', and for the first time, you'll come face-to-face with a Trisolaran... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Series:
Picador Classic
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w130mm x s28mm 332g ISBN13: 9781509823291 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2329-1 ISBN10: 1509823298 EAN: 9781509823291 x Description: With an introduction by the writer and critic Viv Groskop.In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow, along with a talking cat and an expert assassin. This riotous band succeed in fooling an entire population of people who persistently deny the devil's existence, even as they are confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. The devil's project soon becomes involved with The Master, a man who has turned his back on his former life and sought sanctuary in a lunatic asylum, and his former lover, Margarita.A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has been translated into more than twentylanguages. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this story constantly surprises and entertains. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily Dino Buzzati (Author) Series:
Alma Junior Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Sep 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781847498236 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-823-6 ISBN10: 184749823X x Description: A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket. Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of China Iron Gabriela Cabezon Camara (Author) Series:
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Charco Press
Publisher:
Charco Press
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 200pp ISBN13: 9781916465664 ISBN13: 978-1-9164656-6-4 ISBN10: 1916465668 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inferno Ciaran Carson (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781838933234 ISBN13: 978-1-83893-323-4 ISBN10: 1838933239 EAN: 9781838933234 x Description: 'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times. Almost eight centuries after its first publication, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy remains an icon of Italian literature and of the epic genre. In Inferno, the first volume, the poet Virgil leads Dante's hero through hell, showing him the inhabitants of each of its nine circles and examples of the divine justice meted out to them. In this beautifully produced Apollo Library edition, Ciaran Carson's translation suffuses the text with wit, anger and irreverent vigour, without diminishing the pathos of the original. This is a retelling of Dante's epic journey for the twenty-first-century reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe Sarah Cleave (Edited by) Sophie Hughes (Edited by) Leila Slimani (Author) Hilary Cottam (Author) Lisa Dwan (Author) Nora Ikstena (Author) Ana Pessoa (Author) Janne Teller (Author) Asja Bakic (Author) Annelies Beck (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
12 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781912697298 ISBN13: 978-1-912697-29-8 ISBN10: 1912697297 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fate Jorge Consiglio (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Charco Press
Publisher:
Charco Press
Pub Date:
25 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781999368463 ISBN13: 978-1-9993684-6-3 ISBN10: 1999368460 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction Raph Cormack (Edited by) Hatem Hafez (Author) Ahmed Naji (Author) Nael Eltoukhy (Author) Mohamed Salah al-Azab (Author) Areej Gamal (Author) Hend Ja'far (Author) Eman Abdelrahim (Author) Hassan Abdel Mawgoud (Author) Nahla Karam (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
18 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781910974254 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-25-4 ISBN10: 1910974250 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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A Funny Sort of Minister Dominique Demers (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
The Adventures of Mademoiselle Charlotte
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781846884566 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-456-6 ISBN10: 184688456X x Description: At a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant-hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte - hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this - embarks on a quest to track him down. Along the way, Miss Charlotte cannot help making speeches on behalf of the country's leader and putting her own original twist on his boring children's policy, while attracting at the same time the attentions of the media and the secret service. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba Basma Ghalayini (Edited by) Mazen Maarouf (Author) Selma Dabbagh (Author) Ahmed Masoud (Author) Anwar Hamed (Author) Talal Abu Shawish (Author) Rawan Yaghi (Author) Emad El-Din Aysha (Author) Samir El-Youssef (Author) Saleem Haddad (Author) Tasnim Abutabikh (Author) Series:
100 2
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
11 Jul 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781910974445 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-44-5 ISBN10: 1910974447 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: Vintage Voyages Xiaolu Guo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784875312 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-531-2 ISBN10: 1784875317 EAN: 9781784875312 x Description: Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier
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Second Sister Chan Ho-Kei (Author) Jeremy Tiang (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
18 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 512pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781788547116 ISBN13: 978-1-78854-711-6 ISBN10: 178854711X EAN: 9781788547116 x Description: Gossip. Rumour. Revenge. From the author of the acclaimed novel The Borrowed, a very timely and propulsively plotted tale of cyberbullying and revenge, about a woman on the hunt for the truth about her sister's death. Chan Ho-Kei's The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirl - Siu-Man - has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who's been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play - nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N. - a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat and mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.'s neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man's death and why, and to ask, in a world where online and offline dialogue has increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is. Reviews for The Borrowed: 'Fascinating and action-filled' Wall Street Journal. 'An innovative novel with a complex structure' Crime Time. 'Unusual and fascinating' Irish Independent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Librarian of Auschwitz: The heart-breaking Sunday Times bestseller based on the incredible true story of Dita Kraus Antonio Iturbe (Author) Lilit Zekulin Thwaites (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w126mm x s27mm 291g ISBN13: 9781529104776 ISBN13: 978-1-5291-0477-6 ISBN10: 1529104777 EAN: 9781529104776 x Description: For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous.'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns...'Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be 'borrowed' to educate the children in the camp. But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think. And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the children's block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor... The Sunday Times bestseller for readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice. Based on the incredible and moving true story of Dita Kraus,
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The Message Mai Jia (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781789543018 ISBN13: 978-1-78954-301-8 ISBN10: 1789543010 EAN: 9781789543018 x Description: A dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time. China, 1941. It is the height of the Second World War, and Japan rules over China. In the famously beautiful city of Hangzhou, a puppet government propped up by the Japanese is waging an underground war against the Communist resistance. Late one night, under cover of darkness, three men and two women are escorted to an isolated mansion on the shores of West Lake. All five are intelligence officers, employed as codebreakers by the regime. But the secret police are certain that one of them is a communist spy. None of them are leaving until the traitor is unmasked. It should be a straightforward case of sifting truth from lies. But as each codebreaker spins a story that proves their innocence, events are framed and re-framed, and what really happened is called into question again and again. Part historical spy thriller, part playful meta-fiction, The Message is a masterclass in storytelling from a Chinese literary sensation. Praise for Mai Jia: 'Engrossing ... This slyly playful narrative will draw you into a deliciously sticky web' The Times on The Message. 'A pageturner with a gripping plot, otherworldy aura, and flamboyant detail' New York Times on Decoded. 'A literary superstar' Telegraph. 'A mix of spy thriller, historical saga and mathematical puzzle that coheres into a powerful whole' Financial Times on Decoded. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vagabonds Hao Jingfang (Author) Ken Liu (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 640pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781786696502 ISBN13: 978-1-78669-650-2 ISBN10: 1786696509 EAN: 9781786696502 x Description: The first novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of 'Folding Beijing', translated by Ken Liu. Can the void between two worlds be bridged? AD2201. Just over a century ago, the Martian colonies declared their independence. After a brief conflict, Earth and Mars cut ties, carving separate trajectories into the future, viewing each other with suspicion and even hatred. Five years ago, a group of Martian students were sent to Earth as goodwill ambassadors from the Red Planet. Now the young men and women are coming home, escorting a delegation of prominent Terrans to see if the two worlds can bridge the void that has opened up between them. Almost immediately, negotiations break down and old enmities erupt. How do you escape the gravity of the past? Luoying, one of the returning Martians, is caught amidst the political intrigue and philosophical warfare. Martians and Terrans, old friends and new mentors, statesmen and revolutionaries - everything and everyone challenges her, pushing her to declare her allegiance. Torn between her native land and the world on which she came of age, Luoying must discover the truth amid a web of lies spun by both sides, she must chart a course between history and the future, or face the destruction of everything she's ever loved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
19 Sep 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h196mm x w131mm x s16mm 172g ISBN13: 9781529029581 ISBN13: 978-1-5290-2958-1 ISBN10: 1529029589 EAN: 9781529029581 x Description: What would you change if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot - explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction Jin Li (Edited by) Xiao Bai (Author) Pu Yuehui (Author) Shen Dacheng (Author) Cai Jun (Author) Wang Zhanhei (Author) Chen Danyan (Author) Chen Qiufan (Author) Wang Anyi (Author) Xia Shang (Author) Dai Congrong (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781912697274 ISBN13: 978-1-912697-27-4 ISBN10: 1912697270 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emil and the Great Escape Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp h198mm x w129mm 1g ISBN13: 9780192776228 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277622-8 ISBN10: 0192776223 EAN: 9780192776228 x Description: Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun - follow him wherever he goes. In this collection of stories Emil is up to his hilarious best and no-one is safe!
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Emil and the Sneaky Rat Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm 1g ISBN13: 9780192776235 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277623-5 ISBN10: 0192776231 EAN: 9780192776235 x Description: There's a rat running amok in Emil's house, and he's determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father's bed probably isn't ideal . . . That's just the start of Emil's adventures, which, once begun, never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun - follow him wherever he goes. A collection of utterly engaging tales from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emil's Clever Pig Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm 1g ISBN13: 9780192776242 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277624-2 ISBN10: 019277624X EAN: 9780192776242 x Description: Whether he's teaching his pet pig to dance, being chased by a mad cow or wrestling a robber, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun - follow him wherever he goes. A collection of utterly engaging tales from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lotta Makes a Mess Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm 1g ISBN13: 9780192776280 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277628-0 ISBN10: 0192776282 EAN: 9780192776280 x Description: Lotta is the little sister who can find trouble anywhere. She and her young siblings get into all sorts of scrapes. In this funny and engaging tale, a very cross Lotta runs away from home and moves in with the old lady next door. But Lotta soon begins to realise that, actually, nowhere is quite as good as home sweet home. A collection of utterly engaging tales from one of the world's best-loved children's authors, re-issued with new illustrations from Mini Grey to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking. Perfect for reading alone or for sharing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lotta Says 'No!' Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1g ISBN13: 9780192776297 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277629-7 ISBN10: 0192776290 EAN: 9780192776297 x Description: A collection of fun, engaging and gently humorous stories about Lotta, the little sister who can find trouble anywhere. Join in the fun as she and her young siblings get into all sorts of scrapes-from falling out of their neighbour's windows and running away on a train, to making their own pancake tree. Every day brings a funny new adventure! From one of the world's best-loved children's authors, re-issued with new illustrations from Mini Grey to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking. Perfect for reading alone or for sharing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pippi Longstocking (World of Astrid Lindgren) Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h196mm x w127mm x s10mm 122g ISBN13: 9780192776310 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277631-0 ISBN10: 0192776312 EAN: 9780192776310 x Description: Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This new edition of the classic story by Astrid Lindgren contains brand new black and white artwork by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey, introducing Pippi's adventurous spirit to a whole new generation of readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard (World of Astrid Lindgren) Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
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Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h196mm x w128mm x s10mm 122g ISBN13: 9780192776327 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277632-7 ISBN10: 0192776320 EAN: 9780192776327 x Description: Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This new edition of the classic Pippi story by Astrid Lindgren, contains brand new black and white artwork by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey, introducing Pippi's adventurous spirit to a whole new generation of readers. In Pippi Goes Aboard, Pippi Longstocking is back and as crazy and as funny as ever! But for Tommy and Annika, the fun might stop all too soon if Pippi agrees to go back to sea with her father.
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Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas (World of Astrid Lindgren) Astrid Lindgren (Author) Mini Grey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h196mm x w128mm x s10mm 112g ISBN13: 9780192776334 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277633-4 ISBN10: 0192776339 EAN: 9780192776334 x Description: Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This story sees Pippi, Tommy and Annika go on their greatest adventure yet - to Koratuttutt Island, where Pippi's father is king. This new edition contains brand new black and white artwork by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Meet Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren (Author) Ingrid Nyman (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h181mm x w127mm x s6mm 110g ISBN13: 9780192772428 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277242-8 ISBN10: 0192772422 EAN: 9780192772428 x Description: When Pippi Longstocking moves in next door to Tommy and Annika they are completely amazed by their new playmate. Pippi is cheeky, courageous and completely unpredictable. She lives alone with a monkey, a horse, and no rules whatsoever! Everything is fun with Pippi around! In this story she performs at the circus, uses her super strength to stop two robbers, and throws an unusual birthday party. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pippi Longstocking and the Snirkle Hunt Astrid Lindgren (Author) Ingrid Nyman (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h182mm x w126mm x s6mm 110g ISBN13: 9780192772435 ISBN13: 978-0-19-277243-5 ISBN10: 0192772430 EAN: 9780192772435 x Description: Pippi Longstocking makes the everyday extraordinary, and spreads fun wherever she goes. In this new, highly-illustrated edition of one of her classic adventures, she invents a new word - and then becomes determined to find out what the word means. Join her and her friends Tommy and Annika as they set out to find a snirkle! This first reader is based on a chapter from the title Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas.
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Of Ants and Dinosaurs Cixin Liu (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
07 May 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781789546118 ISBN13: 978-1-78954-611-8 ISBN10: 1789546117 EAN: 9781789546118 x Description: A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity - a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but two intelligent species at the same time, defies the odds. That these species, so unalike - and yet so complementary - should forge an alliance that kindled a civilization defies logic. But time is endless and everything comes to pass eventually... The alliance between ants and dinosaurs, was of course, based on dentistry. Yet from such humble beginnings came writing, mathematics, computers, fusion, antimatter and even space travel - a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it. And yet the Dinosaurs refused to heed the Ants' warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving the Ant Federation facing a single dilemma: destroy the dinosaurs, destroy a civilization... or perish alongside them? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Supernova Era Cixin Liu (Author) Joel Martinsen (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Chinese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781788542401 ISBN13: 978-1-78854-240-1 ISBN10: 1788542401 EAN: 9781788542401 x Description: 'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR. 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED. Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running. But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts... 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' THE NEW YORKER. 'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Loop Brenda Lozano (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Charco Press
Publisher:
Charco Press
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 230pp ISBN13: 9781916465640 ISBN13: 978-1-9164656-4-0 ISBN10: 1916465641 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thirteen Months of Sunrise Rania Mamoun (Author) Elisabeth Jaquette (Translated by) Series:
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Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
09 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781910974391 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-39-1 ISBN10: 1910974390 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where The Wild Ladies Are Aoko Matsuda (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Tilted Axis Press
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Pub Date:
13 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9781911284383 ISBN13: 978-1-911284-38-3 ISBN10: 191128438X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Miri (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Tilted Axis Press
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781911284161 ISBN13: 978-1-911284-16-1 ISBN10: 1911284169 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Snow, Dog, Foot Claudio Morandini (Author) J Ockenden (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781908670564 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-56-4 ISBN10: 1908670568 x Description: When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first. Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to break Adelmo Farandola's already faltering grip on reality: a man's foot poking out of the receding snow. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Intrigo Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Mantle
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
17 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h197mm x w131mm x s38mm 406g ISBN13: 9781509892181 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-9218-1 ISBN10: 1509892184 EAN: 9781509892181 x Description: For fans of Scandinavian crime, Intrigo is the gripping collection of Hakan Nesser's best novellas and short stories, three of which have been adapted into major motion pictures.Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of secrets coming to light, lies being exposed, and pasts coming back to haunt the people who thought they had fled them - all told in Hakan Nesser's signature style of dark, cutting prose that displays a true understanding of human nature.The collection is the basis for a trilogy of international films - Dear Agnes, Death of an Author and Samaria - directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Ben Kingsley and Gemma Chan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Root of Evil Hakan Nesser (Author) Sarah Death (Translated by) Series:
The Barbarotti Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 608pp h197mm x w130mm x s39mm 426g ISBN13: 9781509809394 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-0939-4 ISBN10: 1509809392 EAN: 9781509809394 x Description: Hakan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger *July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a
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Love Hanne Orstavik (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
And Other Stories
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Pub Date:
30 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback h198mm x w129mm 128g ISBN13: 9781911508724 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-72-4 ISBN10: 1911508725 x Description: As clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter's evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextricably linked yet desperately at odds, mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night. Beautifully translated into English by Martin Aitken, this edition is the twenty-eighth international publication of Love. Hanne Orstavik's astonishing grasp of human fragility and her economy of form power this acknowledged masterpiece of Norwegian literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sea Cloak Nayrouz Qarmout (Author) Series:
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Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
22 Aug 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781905583782 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-78-2 ISBN10: 1905583788 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Discomfort of Evening: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Author) Michele Hutchison (Commissioning Editor & Foreign Rights Manager) (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 299g ISBN13: 9780571349364 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34936-4 ISBN10: 0571349366 EAN: 9780571349364 x Description: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com 'One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good ... A classic.' Max Porter The sensational Dutch bestseller: 'Exceptional' (Financial Times) 'Exhilarating' (Independent) 'Luminous' (Observer) 'Beautifully wild' (Guardian) I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all. A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison's translation. 'THE MOST TALKED ABOUT DEBUT NOVEL OF 2020 ALREADY' [Dazed & Confused] ONE OF VOGUE'S TOP FIVE DEBUTS OF 2020 ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S HIGHLIGHTS OF 2020 ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S TOP TEN BEST NEW BOOKS IN TRANSLATION _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blinded by the Lights: Now a major HBO Europe TV series Jakub Zulczyk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Legend Press Ltd
Publisher:
Legend Press Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 500g ISBN13: 9781789559859 ISBN13: 978-1-78955-985-9 ISBN10: 1789559855 EAN: 9781789559859 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Would Have Missed Me Birgit Vanderbeke (Author) Jamie Bulloch (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 154pp No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781908670526 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-52-6 ISBN10: 1908670525 x Description: A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child. West Germany, early 1960s: A little girl arrives with her parents from East Germany in a camp for displaced people. The girl's father is abusive, the mother ignores her. Soon she will celebrate her seventh birthday and all she wants is a cat. Instead she receives an illuminated globe. The girl can't hide her disappointment - but then she discovers that the globe offers her a way to escape the misery of the camp. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard (Author) Mark Polizzotti (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w130mm x s12mm 118g ISBN13: 9781509889976 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-8997-6 ISBN10: 1509889973 EAN: 9781509889976 x Description: 'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' - GuardianWinner of the 2017 Prix GoncourtEric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two. What emerges is a fascinating and incredibly moving account of failed diplomacy, broken relationships, and the catastrophic momentum which led to conflict.The titans of German industry - set to prosper under the Nazi government - gather to lend their support to Adolf Hitler. The Austrian Chancellor realizes too late that he has wandered into a trap, as Hitler delivers the ultimatum that will lay the groundwork for Germany's annexation of Austria. Winston Churchill joins Neville Chamberlain for a farewell luncheon held in honour of Joachim von Ribbentrop: German Ambassador to England, soon to be Foreign Minister in the Nazi government, and future defendant at the Nuremberg trials.Suffused with dramatic tension, this unforgettable novel tells the tragic story of how the actions of a few powerful men brought the world to the brink of war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opium Salar Abdoh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h177mm x w112mm x s21mm 185g ISBN13: 9780571221172 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22117-2 ISBN10: 0571221173 EAN: 9780571221172 x Description: Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profile as a simple hotel clerk. But in the new age of mass terror Chase's past inevitably catches up to him, and he finds himself on a quest that thrusts him through three continents where he is confronted by drug dealers and assassins, Middle Eastern agents and embittered Western converts to Islam, as well as powerful Moslem Shiite clerics who run the clandestine arm of one of the most insidious security services ever assembled. Finding himself in this maze of intrigue, murder and doubledeals, he sees no option but to play a lethal end-game in the heart of the Axis of Evil. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Woman in the Dunes K. Abe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 239pp h203mm x w133mm 227g ISBN13: 9780679733782 ISBN13: 978-0-679-73378-2 ISBN10: 0679733787 x
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Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h222mm x w141mm 500g ISBN13: 9780007176113 ISBN13: 978-0-00-717611-3 ISBN10: 0007176112 x Description: A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. She lives in fear of his violence and the words in her textbooks begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a life - dangerous and heathen -- beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family life. This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut, Purple Hibiscus is a compelling novel which captures both a country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops Hanan Al-Shaykh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm 230g ISBN13: 9780747561316 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-6131-6 ISBN10: 0747561311 x Description: At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, Hanan al-Shaykh's characters find their way through the shifting and ambiguous power relationships that shape the landscape of the modern Arab world. A woman feigns insanity to escape from an empty marriage, only to have her plans backfire; a young Danish missionary finds herself slowly and inexorably drawn into the world of the Yemeni village where she has been stationed; and a woman's lighthearted attempt to contact the world of the dead turns serious when she encounters the spirit of her late husband. At once clever and evocative, I SWEEP THE SUN OFF ROOFTOPS is a collection of great insight, wit and poignancy, placing Hanan al-Shaykh among the foremost cosmopolitan writers of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Wilful Disregard: A Novel About Love Lena Andersson (Author) Sarah Death (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h197mm x w130mm x s16mm 202g ISBN13: 9781447268932 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-6893-2 ISBN10: 1447268938 EAN: 9781447268932 x Description: 'Gripped me like an airport read . . . perfect.' Lena Dunham'Lena Andersson's Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple.' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely BonesWinner of the August Prize 2013On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her rational world begins to unravel. Leaving her boyfriend and her past behind, Ester embarks on what is sure to be the greatest love story of her life.It's a shame no one else agrees. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Belle and Sebastien Cecile Aubry (Author) Helen Stephens (Illustrated by) Series:
Alma Junior Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w128mm Line Illustrations ISBN13: 9781847497253 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-725-3 ISBN10: 184749725X x Description: The son of a gypsy woman, Sebastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by Cesar and his grandchildren Angelina and Jean. Born on the same day, Belle is a beautiful white Pyrenean Mountain Dog who has been neglected and passed on from owner to owner, until one day she escapes from a kennel. When Sebastien rescues the runaway Belle from the wrath of the villagers, the boy and the dog form a lifelong friendship and embark on exciting adventures in the mountains. First published in 1965 to coincide with the internationally successful television series of the same name, Belle and Sebastien is a heart-warming story of camaraderie, adventure and freedom. Available for the first time into English, this edition Includes extra material for young readers, including a section on the book, information about the author and a test-yourself quiz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Colonel Chabert Honore de Balzac (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Gina Wilson (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w9mm x s125mm 140g ISBN13: 9781843910374 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-037-4 ISBN10: 1843910373 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under Fire Henri Barbusse (Author) Series:
Casemate Classic War Fiction
Edition:
Imprint:
Casemate Publishers
Publisher:
Casemate Publishers
Pub Date:
16 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 304pp h190mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9781612003825 ISBN13: 978-1-61200-382-5 ISBN10: 1612003826 EAN: 9781612003825 x Description: Under Fire, first published in French as Le Feu, was one of the first novels about WWI, appearing in December 1916, before the outcome of the war was clear. Set in early 1916, it follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers through the eyes of an unnamed foot soldier, who participates in and also observes the action. It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of soldiers living in their own excrement. Then slowly names and features are given to the men who emerge from the mud, from the dignified leader Corporal Bertrand, to the ebullient Volpatte and the obsessive Cocon. Intermingled with details of how they navigate daily life in the putrified atmosphere of the trenches are both harrowing descriptions and a political, pacifist argument about this war and war more generally. Caught up in events they cannot control, the soldiers go through their daily routines: foraging for food, reading letters from wives and mothers, drinking, fighting in battle, and in heavily realistic scenes which the novel is noted for, discovering dead bodies in advanced stages of decomposition; the human detritus of a brutal conflict. Through it all, they talk about the war, attempting to make sense of the altered world in which they find themselves. Under Fire drew criticism at the time of its publication for its harsh realism, but won the Prix Goncourt. The original translation by Fitzwater Wray which first appeared in 1917 is published here. It captures the essence of the era; a glossary is also provided to help with unfamiliar vocabulary. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ocean Sea A Baricco (Author) A McEwen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 256pp ISBN13: 9780375703959 ISBN13: 978-0-375-70395-9 ISBN10: 0375703950 x
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An Iliad Alessandro Baricco (Author) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 158pp h202mm x w141mm x s13mm 191g ISBN13: 9780307275394 ISBN13: 978-0-307-27539-4 ISBN10: 0307275396 EAN: 9780307275394 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco (Author) Ann Goldstein (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 123g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847671035 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-103-5 ISBN10: 1847671039 EAN: 9781847671035 x Description: Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience his predecessor never explored. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, we see through human eyes and feel with human hearts the unforgettable events first recounted more than 3,000 years ago events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature. With Andromache, Patroclus, Priam, and the rest, we are privy to the ghastly confusion of battle, the clamour of the princely councils, the intimacies of the bedchamber until finally only a blind poet is left to recount secondhand the awful fall of Ilium. Imbuing the stuff of legend with a startlingly new relevancy and humanity, Baricco gives us The Iliad as we have never known it. His transformative achievement is certain to delight and fascinate all the readers of Homer's indispensable classic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco (Author) Alastair McEwen (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main - Canons
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Jul 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 174g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781847670748 ISBN13: 978-1-84767-074-8 ISBN10: 1847670741 EAN: 9781847670748 This Product is Replaced By: 9781786896438 x Description: A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose - to answer murder with murder - can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Natasha And Other Stories David Bezmozgis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w131mm x s16mm 150g ISBN13: 9780099461166 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946116-6 ISBN10: 0099461161 EAN: 9780099461166 x Description: Meet the Bermans - Bella, Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence. In 'Tapka', six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbours upstairs. In 'Roman Berman, Massage Therapist', Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first, humiliating dinner with a North American family. In the title story, a stark, funny anatomy of first love, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Natasha And Other Stories David Bezmozgis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 160pp 183g ISBN13: 9780224071253 ISBN13: 978-0-224-07125-3 ISBN10: 0224071254 EAN: 9780224071253
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: David Bezmozgis's remarkable stories have already been acclaimed in the US and Canada when three appeared almost simultaneously in the New Yorker, Harper's and Zoetrope. In the space of a few weeks, these magazines introduced readers to the Bermans - Bella and Roman and their son Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha brings the Bermans - and the Russian Jewish enclaves of Toronto - to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence. In 'Tapka', six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbours upstairs. In 'Roman Berman, Massage Therapist', Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first, humiliating dinner with a North American family. In the title story, a stark, funny anatomy of first love, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. Bezmozgis writes with clarity and compassion about the pains and joys of immigration. Sad but comic, his stories are the literature of an immigrant community whose story has yet to be told, and their chronicler possesses an extraordinary gift. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Iraq+100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion Hassan Blasim (Author) Anoud (Author) Ali Bader (Author) Diaa Jubaili (Author) Mortada Gzar (Author) Zhraa Alhaboby (Author) Jalal Naim Hasan (Author) Khalid Kaki (Author) Hassan Abdulrazzak (Author) Ibrahim Al-Marashi (Author) Hassan Blasim (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w128mm x s12mm ISBN13: 9781905583669 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-66-9 ISBN10: 1905583664 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Iraqi Christ Hassan Blasim (Author) Jonathan Wright (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 140pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm ISBN13: 9781905583522 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-52-2 ISBN10: 1905583524 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Madman of Freedom Square Hassan Blasim (Author) Jonathan Wright (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 98pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm ISBN13: 9781905583256 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-25-6 ISBN10: 1905583257 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submission Marthe Blau (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w127mm x s14mm 157g ISBN13: 9780552772372 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77237-2 ISBN10: 0552772372 EAN: 9780552772372 x Description: You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Sexual obsession, domination and extreme lust - Submission is the story of a young married Parisian lawyer who is drawn into a sado-masochistic relationship. A handsome stranger she meets in the courts issues her with a series of instructions which she finds herself compelled to follow. As the violence of their encounters escalates, it becomes a dangerous addiction that she can't break. But how far can she go and how much of her life will she risk in the process? Based on the author's own experiences, this astonishing book sent shockwaves through the French establishment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swallow Summer Larissa Boehning (Author) Lyn Marven (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm ISBN13: 9781905583447 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-44-7 ISBN10: 1905583443 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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2666 Roberto Bolano (Author) Natasha Wimmer (Translated by) Series:
Picador Classic
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 928pp h198mm x w129mm x s60mm 730g ISBN13: 9781447289593 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8959-3 ISBN10: 1447289595 EAN: 9781447289593 x Description: With an introduction by Ben LernerThe truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl, a vortex for lost souls. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But there is a darker side to the town: girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate and it is fast becoming the scene of a series of horrifying crimes. As 2666 progresses, the sense of conspiracy grows, and the shadow of the apocalypse is drawing closer.Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 became a sensation on publication and has been hailed across the world as Bolano's masterpiece. Terrifying, awe-inspiring and beautiful, it is the classic novel that has come to define one of Latin America's greatest writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Author) Will Self (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 319g ISBN13: 9780099540946 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954094-6 ISBN10: 0099540940 EAN: 9780099540946 x Description: Bulgakov paints an excellent picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical masterpiece.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELFThe devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Excursion to Tindari Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h177mm x w111mm x s18mm 155g ISBN13: 9780330493055 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49305-5 ISBN10: 0330493051 EAN: 9780330493055 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shape of Water Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h197mm x w131mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9780330492867 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49286-7 ISBN10: 0330492861 EAN: 9780330492867 x Description: The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Voice of the Violin Andrea Camilleri (Author) Series:
Inspector Montalbano mysteries
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s18mm 184g ISBN13: 9780330492997 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49299-7 ISBN10: 0330492993 EAN: 9780330492997 x Description: The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series.The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. "I'm going to speak very frankly, Montalbano. I don't have a very high opinion of you." "Nor I of you," the inspector replied bluntly. Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder . . .The Voice of the Violin is followed by the fifth novel in this compelling mystery series, Excursion to Tindari. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction Orsola Casagrande (Edited by) Daniel Chavarria (Author) Francisco Lopez Sacha (Author) Laidi Fernandez De Juan (Author) Eduardo A. Santiesteban (Author) Irina J. Davidenko (Author) Cinthia Paredes (Author) Eduardo Heras Leon (Author) Ahmel Echevarria Pere (Author) Jorge Enrique Lage (Author) Eduardo del Llano (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781910974018 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-01-8 ISBN10: 1910974013 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (Author) Tobias Smollet (Translated by) David Whitlock (Introduction by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Sep 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 992pp h198mm x w129mm x s50mm 605g ISBN13: 9781853267956 ISBN13: 978-1-85326-795-6 ISBN10: 1853267953 EAN: 9781853267956 x Description: Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Roux the Bandit Andre Chamson (Author) Series:
Casemate Classic War Fiction
Edition:
Imprint:
Casemate Publishers
Publisher:
Casemate Publishers
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 112pp h190mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9781612004174 ISBN13: 978-1-61200-417-4 ISBN10: 1612004172 EAN: 9781612004174 x Description: Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cevennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, only returning occasionally to the farm where he left his mother and sisters. The people of the valley condemn his desertion and they hope the police will find his hideout. But as the months and the years go by, and the horrors of the trenches become known, the local people start to understand Roux's actions. Roux begins to appear in the village more often, helping out and explaining that his decision was taken out of respect for the Bible. His arrest at the end of the War is therefore met with sadness and regret. Chamson explores questions of perception, morality and conscience with a lightness of touch coupled with an atmospheric picture of life in a WWI era rural community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adultery Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w143mm x s28mm 476g ISBN13: 9780091958879 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195887-9 ISBN10: 0091958873
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: This is the thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. Even she can't predict what will happen next... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adultery Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 323g ISBN13: 9780091958886 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195888-6 ISBN10: 0091958881 EAN: 9780091958886 x Description: The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she - respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. Even she can't predict what will happen next... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fifth Mountain Intl Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
American Collection at Fwc
Edition:
Imprint:
Harper Torch
Publisher:
Harper Torch
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback 245pp ISBN13: 9780060736279 ISBN13: 978-0-06-073627-9 ISBN10: 0060736275 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Journeys Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 112pp h249mm x w156mm x s12mm 365g ISBN13: 9780007193394 ISBN13: 978-0-00-719339-4 ISBN10: 0007193394 EAN: 9780007193394 x Description: A bedside companion and journal filled with inspiration and wisdom from one of the world's best-loved spiritual writers. FROM THE FOREWORD:`Alchemy is the projection of our spiritual longings onto the physical world. This diary is intended to accompany you on your path towards making these longings reality...towards trusting in your own decisions and accepting life's challenges.' * This attractively packaged book acts as a companion and source of daily enlightenment in one, allowing you to journey through life with guidance from one of the most loved and influential authors of our time, Paulo Coelho. * Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout, each page offers space for you to detail your thoughts, feelings and activities at any chosen time, accompanied by an inspirational selected quotation. * Includes extracts from Paulo Coelho's bestselling titles, including The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage and Eleven Minutes, as well as insights from interviews and previously unpublished sayings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
The Pocket Alchemist edition
Imprint:
Harper Thorsons
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h157mm x w116mm x s23mm 230g ISBN13: 9780008144227 ISBN13: 978-0-00-814422-7 ISBN10: 0008144222 EAN: 9780008144227 x Description: A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a beautiful parable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life's path and, above all, follow your dreams. Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire nations and change people's lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Spy Paulo Coelho (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
21 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h204mm x w138mm x s23mm 303g ISBN13: 9781786330543 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-054-3 ISBN10: 1786330547 EAN: 9781786330543 x Description: 'Beautifully written and gripping'. Sunday Mirror When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dusklands J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Aug 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9780099268338 ISBN13: 978-0-09-926833-8 ISBN10: 0099268337 EAN: 9780099268338 x Description: A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Foe J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp h181mm x w114mm x s13mm 96g ISBN13: 9780140299533 ISBN13: 978-0-14-029953-3 ISBN10: 014029953X
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute slave Friday. Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story of the island if he will make her rich and famous. But Foe is less interested in the history of Robinson Cruso than in the story of Susan Barton. How did she earn a living in Brazil? Who were the mutineers who marooned her? Where is the daughter for whom she claims to have been searching the ends of the earth? And how did Friday lose his tongue? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Waiting For The Barbarians J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 May 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp 136g ISBN13: 9780749394202 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9420-2 ISBN10: 074939420X EAN: 9780749394202 This Product is Replaced By: 9780099465935 x Description: For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Dog Louis de Bernieres (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2002 (09 Oct 2008)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h175mm x w121mm x s10mm 107g ISBN13: 9780099429043 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942904-3 ISBN10: 0099429047 EAN: 9780099429043 x Description: The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.' Louis de Bernieres.'If you love Australia it will have you aching for the scent of gums and sight of the Southern Cross, while if you love dogs it is sure to make you highly indulgent towards the one you love' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Prince ,Antoine Saint-Exupery (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Wadsworth Publishing Co Publisher: Inc
Cengage Learning, Inc
Pub Date:
01 May 2016
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 96pp Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780156012195 ISBN13: 978-0-15-601219-5 ISBN10: 0156012197
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupery's original artwork. Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Stories). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author) Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Illustrated by) T.V.F. Cuffe (Introduction by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h199mm x w133mm x s10mm 246g ISBN13: 9780141185620 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118562-0 ISBN10: 0141185627 EAN: 9780141185620 x Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The New Football Coach Dominique Demers (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
The Adventures of Mademoiselle Charlotte
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781846884351 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-435-1 ISBN10: 1846884357 x Description: Miss Charlotte - the new coach of a children's football team - has some odd methods to prepare them for the big match, including talking to the ball and drinking a special potion, smalalamiam. Also, she teaches them how to lose! And to have fun. Incredibly, it seems to work - but will their hopes of victory be dashed when their star player decides to join the other team? The latest instalment in Dominique Demers's popular Adventures of Miss Charlotte series, The New Football Coach, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is a marvellous tale about believing in yourself and beating the odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The New Teacher Dominique Demers (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 120pp h198mm x w128mm 102g b/w ISBN13: 9781846883996 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-399-6 ISBN10: 1846883997 EAN: 9781846883996 x Description: Mademoiselle Charlotte, the new teacher, is not like the others: she wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that make her look like a scarecrow, and she talks to a rock. The children think she is crazy at first, but soon realize she makes school more fun than ever, getting them to measure the room with cooked spaghetti in maths class, telling fascinating stories about a gorilla and even taking the pupils on at football.
The first book in Dominique Demers's popular series, The New Teacher, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is an entertaining, imaginative and inspiring book that will make you wish you had a teacher just like Mademoiselle Charlotte. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mysterious Librarian Dominique Demers (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrator) (Illustrated by) Sander Berg (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 118g b/w ISBN13: 9781846884153 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-415-3 ISBN10: 1846884152 EAN: 9781846884153 x Description: When the mysterious and eccentric Miss Charlotte arrives in the village of Saint-Anatole to take over the tiny library, the locals are surprised to find out that she does things differently. Wearing a long blue dress and a giant hat, she takes her books out for a walk in a wheelbarrow and shows the children that reading can be fun and useful. Sometimes she is so caught up in the magic of the stories she shares with her audience that she forgets all sense of reality - so much so that one day she loses consciousness and the children must find a way to bring her back. The second in Dominique Demers's popular The Adventures of Miss Charlotte series, The Mysterious Librarian, brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is a wonderful story about the magical and inspiring power of books. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Reader on the 6.27 Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (Author) Ros Schwartz (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
10 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h196mm x w130mm x s18mm 256g ISBN13: 9781447276494 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7649-4 ISBN10: 1447276493 EAN: 9781447276494 x Description: An international bestseller from French author Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27 is ready to take you on a journey . . .Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie - a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does - that his journey will truly begin . . .The Reader on the 6.27 is a tale bursting with larger-than-life characters, each of whom touches Guylain's life for the better. For fans of Amelie and Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, this captivating novel is a warm, funny fable about literature's power to uplift even the most downtrodden of lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rest of Their Lives Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (Author) Ros Schwartz (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h196mm x w129mm x s23mm 302g ISBN13: 9781509840366 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-4036-6 ISBN10: 1509840362 EAN: 9781509840366 x Description: Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall for The Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent's follow-up novel, The Rest of Their Lives, is set to charm the world.It's difficult to find love in a profession like Ambroise's - even his father despises what he does . . .And while Manelle - a home-help for the elderly in the same small French town - adores her days spent with her eccentric clients, she too often ends her evenings alone.So when an unusual request from Manelle's favourite client - eighty-two-year-old retired chef-gourmand Samuel - brings the two of them together for an unlikely road-trip to Switzerland, along with Ambroise's cake-loving grandmother, it might just be time for the rest of their lives to begin . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Arranged Marriage Chitra Divakaruni (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w127mm x s20mm 228g ISBN13: 9780552996693 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99669-3 ISBN10: 0552996696 EAN: 9780552996693 x Description: The possibility of change, of starting anew, in this stunning beautiful and poignant collection of short stories, is at once terrifying and filled with promise.For those Indian-born women living new lives in America, independence is a mixed blessing.It means walking the tightrope between old treasured beliefs and surprising newfound desires, and understanding the emotions which that conflict brings.Together these stories create a tapestry of existence as colourful, as delicate and as enduring as the finest silk sari. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sister Of My Heart Chitra Divakaruni (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Sep 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w128mm x s22mm 230g ISBN13: 9780552997676 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99767-6 ISBN10: 0552997676 EAN: 9780552997676 x Description: Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night their fathers were both mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about their past, their mutual loyalty is sorely tested. A family crisis forces the mothers to start the serious business of arranging the girls' marriages, and the inseparable pair are torn apart. Sudha moves to her new family'as home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant husband in California. But nothing has prepared them for the pain, aswell as the joy, that each will have to face in her new life. Rooted in Indian folklore and steeped in the mysticism of ancient tales, this bright, jewel-like novel shines its light on the bonds of family, on love and loss, against the realities of traditional arranged marriages, and the adjustments needed for modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nineteen Nineteen John Dos Passos (Author) Series:
Signet classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet
Publisher:
Penguin Books Australia
Pub Date:
30 Oct 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 472pp h181mm x w106mm 233g ISBN13: 9780451524683 ISBN13: 978-0-451-52468-3 ISBN10: 0451524683 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Big Money Passos John Dos (Author) Series:
Signet classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet Book
Publisher:
Signet Book
Pub Date:
31 Dec 1997
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 560pp h181mm x w106mm 263g ISBN13: 9780451524010 ISBN13: 978-0-451-52401-0 ISBN10: 0451524012 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poor People F. M. Dostoevsky (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Charlotte Hobson (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s15mm 187g ISBN13: 9781843910237 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-023-7 ISBN10: 1843910233 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Thousand and One Ghosts Alexandre Dumas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 200pp h195mm x w125mm x s13mm 210g ISBN13: 9781843910824 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-082-4 ISBN10: 1843910829 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Marguerite Duras (Author) Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Edition: Classics
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
16 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 110g ISBN13: 9780007205004 ISBN13: 978-0-00-720500-4 ISBN10: 0007205007 EAN: 9780007205004 x
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com Description: A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, `The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society. A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Get Rid of a Vampire Using Ketchup, Garlic Cloves and a Bit of Imagination J.M. Erre (Author) Sander Berg (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 172g b/w ISBN13: 9781846884221 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-422-1 ISBN10: 1846884225 EAN: 9781846884221 x Description: Zazie has just received a beautiful new notebook, and decides to keep a diary. Brimming with imagination, she writes down her impressions of her cat Roudoudou, her awful cousin Lucas and her new teacher, Mr Labat - who, with his pale skin and blood-red lips, must surely be a vampire! In order to save her life and those of her classmates, Zazie must find a way to get rid of Mr Labat - and what better way than by following the advice found in Bram Stoker's Dracula... Sparkling, funny and a bit wacky, How to Get Rid of a Vampire (Using Ketchup, Garlic Cloves and a Bit of Imagination) is as entertaining and original as its brave and loveable heroine. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Headcrusher Aleksei Evdokimo (Author) Alexander Garros (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 225g ISBN13: 9780099474722 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947472-2 ISBN10: 0099474727 EAN: 9780099474722 x Description: Vadim's having a tough time adjusting to capitalism. The grey, slushy Latvia he knows has not been the same since Euro-bypass surgery revived its economy. Everywhere he looks, designer-clad clones are hanging out in chic bars and driving expensive cars. His only escape is into the virtual world of the super-sophisticated computer game 'Headcrusher' where he can blast people away to his heart's content. Until, that is, he takes a blunt implement to his boss's real head and embarks on a killing spree that leads him to the limits of reality... Fast, furious and wicked fun, this is Russia's Fight Club and American Psycho rolled into one. Its high-octane combination of spoof and satire, humour and violence make it the most exciting novel to come out of the ex-USSR in a very long time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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My Name Is Salma Fadia Faqir (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h200mm x w130mm x s23mm 224g ISBN13: 9780552773621 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77362-1 ISBN10: 055277362X EAN: 9780552773621 x Description: When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, her innocent days playing the pipe for her goats are gone for ever. She is swept into prison for her own protection. To the sound of her screams, her newborn baby daughter is snatched away. In the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she learns good manners from her landlady, and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. When she can bear them no longer, she goes back to her village to find her. It is a journey that will change everything - and nothing. Slipping back and forth between the olive groves of the Levant and the rain-slicked pavements of Exeter, "My Name is Salma" is a searing portrayal of a woman's courage in the face of insurmountable odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young Turk: A Novel in 13 Fragments Moris Farhi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
16 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 360pp h210mm x w140mm 424g ISBN13: 9780863563515 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-351-5 ISBN10: 0863563511 x Description: Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. An alluring woman initiates Mustafa and his classmates in the carnal delights of rose petal jam; Musa discovers the hard facts of reaching manhood when he is expelled from the women's baths; Bilal, a 14-year-old Jewish boy, sets off for Greece to rescue his mother's sister; and a circus orphan known only as 'Girl' falls head over heels for the new trapeze artist ...Young Turk is a novel in thirteen positions. Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino, this is a wise, craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows Dan Fesperman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 464pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780552151757 ISBN13: 978-0-552-15175-7 ISBN10: 0552151750 This Product is Replaced By: 9780552150231 x Description: Vlado Petric, former detective in war, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living in the building sites. So when one night an American investigator approaches him to return to Croatia, it doesn't take long for him to accept. Little does he know, he is the bait. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next Book 6 Jasper Fforde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h177mm x w116mm x s28mm 218g Yes ISBN13: 9780340963104 ISBN13: 978-0-340-96310-4 ISBN10: 0340963107 EAN: 9780340963104 x Description: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Something Rotten Jasper Fforde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
17 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 416pp h25mm x w111mm x s176mm 213g 6 b & w ISBN13: 9780340834268 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83426-8 ISBN10: 0340834269 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arctic Summer E. M. Forster (Author) Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 135g ISBN13: 9781843910619 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-061-9 ISBN10: 1843910616 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rasero Rebolledo Francisco (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Nov 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 763g ISBN13: 9780297817543 ISBN13: 978-0-297-81754-3 ISBN10: 029781754X
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Night of the Lions Kuki Gallmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Feb 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h199mm x w137mm x s16mm 178g 8pp b&w illustrations ISBN13: 9780140278965 ISBN13: 978-0-14-027896-5 ISBN10: 0140278966 x Description: Originally published in 1999 by Viking, an illustrated collection of stories about the African land and people, written by the author of AFRICAN NIGHTS and I DREAMED OF AFRICA. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 92g ISBN13: 9780141028736 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102873-6 ISBN10: 0141028734 EAN: 9780141028736 x Description: Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . 'Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller' Daily Mail 'Marquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic' Tatler 'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushie As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Theseus Andre Gide (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s8mm 160g ISBN13: 9781843910275 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-027-5 ISBN10: 1843910276 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Modern Library Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 176pp h203mm x w132mm x s10mm 140g ISBN13: 9780812971194 ISBN13: 978-0-8129-7119-4 ISBN10: 0812971191 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Squabble Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Patrick McCabe (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h194mm x w125mm x s11mm 174g ISBN13: 9781843910138 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-013-8 ISBN10: 1843910136 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Shatila Stories Nashwa Gowanlock (Translated by) Series:
Peirene Now! 3
Edition:
Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 150pp h197mm x w128mm x s18mm No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781908670489 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-48-9 ISBN10: 1908670487 x Description: Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded Palestinian camp are tough, and violence defines many of the relationships: a father fights to save his daughter, a gang leader plots to expand his influence, and drugs break up a family. Adam struggles to make sense of his refugee experience, but then he meets Shatha and starts to view the camp through her eyes. Most novels are written by professionals using second hand material. Not this one. The editors have taken nine refugees, taught them the basics of creative writing, and asked them to tell their "Shatila Stories". The result is a miracle - a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East - or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story - start here. 'I want to hear their stories and see if their imaginations can open up a new path of understanding between us. Collaborative works of literature can achieve what no other literature can do. By pooling our imaginations we are able to access something totally different and new that goes beyond boundaries - that of the individual, of nations, of cultures. It connects us to our common human essence: our creativity. Let's make stories, not more war.' Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press Authors: Omar Khaled Ahmad, Nibal Alalo, Safa Khaled Algharbawi, Omar Abdellatif Alndaf, Rayan Mohamad Sukkar, Safiya Badran, Fatima Omar Ghazawi, Samih Mahmoud, Hiba Mareb. Translated by: Nashwa Gowanlock _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dog Years Gunter Grass (Author) Ralph Manheim (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
21 Jul 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 426g ISBN13: 9780749394509 ISBN13: 978-0-7493-9450-9 ISBN10: 0749394501 EAN: 9780749394509 x Description: In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Often I Am Happy Jens Christian Grondahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w130mm x s10mm 136g ISBN13: 9781509842407 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-4240-7 ISBN10: 1509842403 EAN: 9781509842407
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: When Ellinor addresses her best friend Anna, she does not expect a reply. Anna has been dead for forty years, killed in the same skiing accident that claimed Henning: Ellinor's first husband and Anna's lover.Ellinor instead tells her that Georg has died - Georg who was once Anna's, but whom Ellinor came to love in her place, and whom she came to care for, along with Anna's two infant sons. Yet with Georg's death Ellinor finds herself able to cut the ties of her assumed life with surprising ease.Returning to the area of Copenhagen where she grew up, away from the adopted comfort of the home she shared with Georg, Ellinor finds herself addressing her own history: her marriage to Henning, their seemingly charmed friendship with the newly-wed Anna and Georg, right back to her own mother's story - a story of heartbreaking pride.Because there are some secrets - both our own and of others - that we can only share with the dead. Secrets that nonetheless shape who we are and who we love. Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grondahl is a profoundly moving work of fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Horse Walks into a Bar David Grossman (Author) Jessica Cohen (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Hebrew Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9781784704223 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-422-3 ISBN10: 1784704229 EAN: 9781784704223 x Description: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reef Romesh Gunesekera (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
19 Feb 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781862070943 ISBN13: 978-1-86207-094-3 ISBN10: 1862070946 EAN: 9781862070943 x Description: Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise. It is told by Trtion, who at the age of eleven goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and the island's disappearing reef. Triton learns to polish silver; to mix a love cake with ten eggs, creamed butter and fresh cashew nuts; and to steam the exotic parrot fish for his master's lover. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Feb 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s14mm 185g ISBN13: 9780140233117 ISBN13: 978-0-14-023311-7 ISBN10: 0140233113 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes, this book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as "uncle" Aziz. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Odyssey: Stories of Journeys From Around Europe by the Aarhus 39 Daniel Hahn (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 220g pages b/w ISBN13: 9781846884290 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-429-0 ISBN10: 1846884292 EAN: 9781846884290 x Description: "Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, offers a variety of takes on the theme of travelling - at times funny and playful, at others dramatic and poignant - covering a wide range of themes relevant to teenagers across Europe such as coming of age, sexuality, migration, identity and displacement. Whether you're after realism or escapism, tales about inner cities, sunny holidays or sci-fi ventures into the future, this book will have something for everyone. Hay Festival is delighted to present Aarhus 39, a two-volume collection of the best emerging writers for young readers from across wider Europe. Three of among Europe's best loved children's authors - Matt Haig (UK), Kim Fupz Aakeson (Denmark) and Ana Cristina Herreros (Spain) - have selected thirty-nine writers under the age of forty, and invited them to write an original story on the theme of "journey". These new stories, together with the specially commissioned illustrations that accompany them, are a celebration of great new writing for young people and reflect issues facing them in contemporary Europe. Reading stories of other people's lives and journeys extends understanding and empathy to new generations." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quest: Stories of Journeys From Around Europe by the Aarhus 39 Daniel Hahn (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 218g pages b/w ISBN13: 9781846884269 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-426-9 ISBN10: 1846884268 x Description: Quest, a volume of seventeen stories aimed at children, will whisk you away from dark bedrooms to new dimensions and fantasy realms, via the Russian countryside and modern Rome. You'll encounter talking field mice, invisible friends, flying kraiks, white elephants, runaway books and wardrobes that act as magic portals. Hopping across all sorts of genres and showcasing authors from all over Europe - from the Basque country and Cyprus to Iceland and the Czech Republic - this book is certain to broaden horizons and engage the reader in all kinds of fun.
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Hay Festival is delighted to present Aarhus 39, a two-volume collection of the best emerging writers for young readers from across wider Europe. Three of among Europe's best loved children's authors - Matt Haig (UK), Kim Fupz Aakeson (Denmark) and Ana Cristina Herreros (Spain) - have selected thirty-nine writers under the age of forty, and invited them to write an original story on the theme of "journey". These new stories, together with the specially commissioned illustrations that accompany them, are a celebration of great new writing for young people and reflect issues facing them in contemporary Europe. Reading stories of other people's lives and journeys extends understanding and empathy to new generations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Birdman and the Lapdancer Eric Hansen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Publisher:
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp ISBN13: 9780413774996 ISBN13: 978-0-413-77499-6 ISBN10: 0413774996 x Description: Eric Hansen is an intrepid traveller with a keenly perceptive eye and an appreciation for the odd and unusual. He will go anywhere, try anything and always manages to capture something remarkable in the doing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transmission Kunzru Hari (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h185mm x w115mm x s19mm 156g ISBN13: 9780141020952 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102095-2 ISBN10: 0141020954 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Die, My Love Ariana Harwicz (Author) Sarah Moses (Translated by) Carolina Orloff (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Charco Press
Publisher:
Charco Press
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 123pp ISBN13: 9781999722784 ISBN13: 978-1-9997227-8-4 ISBN10: 1999722787 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
And Other Stories
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 140pp h199mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781908276421 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-42-1 ISBN10: 1908276428 EAN: 9781908276421 x Description: Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Guest Cat Takashi Hiraide (Author) Eric Selland (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
25 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h196mm x w131mm x s11mm 122g ISBN13: 9781447279402 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7940-2 ISBN10: 1447279409 EAN: 9781447279402 x Description: The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife; they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby Garden. But then something happens that will change everything again.The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. Written by Japanese poet and novelist Takashi Hiraide, the book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When I Forgot Elina Hirvonen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Granta Books
Publisher:
Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w130mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9781846270956 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-095-6 ISBN10: 1846270952 EAN: 9781846270956
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters for the reader into a blazing display of memory and madness, of childhood security treasured and shattered, and of families blighted by psychological trauma her brother's and that of her boyfriend's father, a Vietnam veteran. But, in Elina Hirvonen's skilful hands, the grimness is illuminated by firecracker insight and flashes of surprising beauty. And, above all, there is hope. This is an astonishingly assured and compelling debut novel about the love siblings have for each other, the past they share and the painful memories that shape their lives for ever. This title will especially delight readers of Andrea Ashworth, Maggie O'Farrell, Ali Smith, Kate Atkinson and Vendela Vida. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Wasn't There Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 309g ISBN13: 9781784752415 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-241-5 ISBN10: 178475241X EAN: 9781784752415 x Description: Six bodies are found on a Swedish mountain - and a cold case rapidly heats up...FROM THE ACCLAIMED CREATORS OF WALLANDER and THE BRIDGESix skeletons on a mountainside. The relics of a terrible crime committed long ago.For Sebastian Bergman, that just makes the investigation into who they are, who killed them, and why, even more complex. At first the investigation was a chance to escape his exgirlfriend and spend some time with his daughter, Vanja. An opportunity to try and build a relationship with her before it's too late.But soon he finds that he's more involved than he would ever want to be. And his personal life is horribly, disastrously tangled up in it all . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Watched Women Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 362g ISBN13: 9781784752408 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-240-8 ISBN10: 1784752401 EAN: 9781784752408 x Description: ______________________________________Scandinavian crime fiction at its best from the creators of Wallander and The BridgeAs a blazing heatwave engulfs Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier.Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. The revelation that he has a daughter, Vanja, could provide this longed-for stability. But should he tell her the truth and risk destroying her life and career?Forcing his way into the investigation, Sebastian soon learns that the murders are connected to him and that no one around him is safe. Including Vanja... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Silent Girl Michael Hjorth (Author) Hans Rosenfeldt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 319g ISBN13: 9781784752422 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-242-2 ISBN10: 1784752428 EAN: 9781784752422 x Description: The latest novel from internationally bestselling authors, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt, creators of hit television shows, Wallander, The Bridge and ITV's Marcella.An idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered - mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away.Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end.Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime. A young girl who saw it all happen, and she has fled, in fear for her life.Bergman has to track the young girl down before it's too late. But the killer is chasing her too - and he is determined to finish what he started. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Michel Houellebecq (Author) Paul Hammond (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w128mm x s10mm 115g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852425845 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-584-5 ISBN10: 1852425849 EAN: 9781852425845 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846687846 x Description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl Siri Hustvedt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
19 Jun 1997 (04 Feb 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s19mm 208g None ISBN13: 9780340682364 ISBN13: 978-0-340-68236-4 ISBN10: 0340682361 EAN: 9780340682364 x Description: Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life.
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Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen (Author) F. McGuinness (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
31 May 1990
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h197mm x w127mm 96g ISBN13: 9780571143115 ISBN13: 978-0-571-14311-5 ISBN10: 0571143113 x Description: Ibsen's play is a picaresque tale about the amiable rogue Peer Gynt. This version has been translated by Frank McGuinness, the Irish playwright, whose aim was to re-make it into a work as valid for contemporary audiences as when it was written in 1867. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Soviet Milk Nora Ikstena (Author) Margita Gailitis (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Latvian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 196pp No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781908670427 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-42-7 ISBN10: 1908670428 x Description: The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir? 'At first glance this novel depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the the Soviet-ruled Baltics between 1969 and 1989. Yet just beneath the surface lies something far more positive: the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide - love, and the desire for life.' Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press Publisher _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women as Lovers Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Martin Chalmers (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 1994
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h199mm x w128mm x s15mm 180g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852422370 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-237-0 ISBN10: 1852422378 EAN: 9781852422370 x Description: The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory.
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She gets pregnant by Erich, the forestry worker. He's handsome, so they marry. Brigitte gets it right. Paula gets it wrong. Using the conventions and language of romantic fiction, Elfriede Jelinek has written a moving tragedy whose power lies in its refusal to take at face value its characters' dreams and aspirations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wonderful, Wonderful Times Elfriede Jelinek (Author) M. Hulse (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 1990
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h200mm x w125mm x s15mm 192g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421687 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-168-7 ISBN10: 1852421681 EAN: 9781852421687 x Description: 'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground. What's unnecessary is best of all, says Rainer, who wants to go on fighting. We ageed on that.' It is the late 1950s. A man is out walking in a park in Vienna. He will be beaten up by four teenagers, not for his money, he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them, but because the youths are arrogant and very pleased with themselves. Their arrogance is their way of reacting to the maggot?ridden corpse that is Austria where everyone has a closet to hide their Nazi histories, their sexual perversions and their hatred of the foreigner. Elfriede Jelinek, who writes like an angel of all that is tawdry, shows in Wonderful, Wonderful Times how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lust Elfriede Jelinek (Author) Michael Hulse (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w128mm x s17mm 178g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852421830 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-183-0 ISBN10: 1852421835 EAN: 9781852421830 x Description: In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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If You Are Afraid of Heights Raj Kamal Jha (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 304pp h178mm x w111mm x s20mm 157g ISBN13: 9780330427364 ISBN13: 978-0-330-42736-4 ISBN10: 0330427369 EAN: 9780330427364 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Nine Lives Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Author) C.S. Jhabvala (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w126mm x s18mm 210g 9 drawings by C.S. Jhabvala ISBN13: 9780719561832 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6183-2 ISBN10: 0719561833 EAN: 9780719561832 x Description: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped. In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingenue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction Gvantsa Jobava (Author) Dato Kardava (Author) Gela Chkvanava (Author) Rusudan Rukhadze (Author) Erekle Deisadze (Author) Zviad Kvaratskhelia (Author) Iva Pezuashvili (Author) Ina Archuashvili (Author) Shota Iatashvili (Author) Lado Kilasonia (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
14 Dec 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781910974315 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-31-5 ISBN10: 1910974315 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Broken April Ismail Kadare (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2003 (04 Dec 2008)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780099449874 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944987-4 ISBN10: 0099449870 EAN: 9780099449874 x Description: From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive. The bride's heart goes out to Gjorg, and even these 'civilised' strangers from the city risk becoming embroiled in the fatal mechanism of vendetta. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Successor Ismail Kadare (Author) David Bellos (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Canongate Books Ltd
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Albanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 154g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781841958873 ISBN13: 978-1-84195-887-3 ISBN10: 1841958875 EAN: 9781841958873 x Description: The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As the state insists that the future leader died by his own hand, the rest of the world begins to have doubts. As the tension builds and rumours escalate, Kadare draws us into a nightmarish world controlled by rules no one understands, blending dream and reality to produce a mystery and a thriller that seduces and surprises up to the last page. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Three Elegies for Kosovo Ismail Kadare (Author) Peter Constantine (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
17 Feb 2000
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Albanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp 80g ISBN13: 9781860467073 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-707-3 ISBN10: 1860467075 EAN: 9781860467073 This Product Replaces: 9780099560951 x Description: 28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. 28 June 1989, the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launches his campaign for a fresh massacre of the Albanians, the majority population of Kosovo. In three short narratives Kadare shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trial Franz Kafka (Author) Idris Parry (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 2000 (25 Jan 2007)
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141182902 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118290-2 ISBN10: 0141182903 EAN: 9780141182902 x Description: A gripping work of psychological horror, in its depiction of bureaucracy run amok Franz Kafka's The Trial skirts the line between fantasy and reality. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the German with an introduction by Idris Parry.'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. Maintaining an atmosphere of unease throughout, this chilling, thought-provoking novel, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the absurd meaninglessness and futility of human life.Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking insurance clerk who despised his job, preferring to spend his time writing. Nevertheless, Kafka published little during his lifetime, and ordered his closest friend to burn the mass of unpublished manuscripts - now familiar to us as some of the most influential novels and short stories of the twentieth century - after his death. Kafka's novels, all available in Penguin Modern Classics, include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.If you enjoyed The Trial, you might like Kafka's The Castle, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism'Daily Telegraph'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of [The Trial] that it offers everything and confirms nothing'Albert Camus _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Underground Village: Short Stories by Kang Kyeong-ae Kyeong-ae Kang (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Honford Star
Publisher:
Honford Star
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 264pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781999791261 ISBN13: 978-1-9997912-6-1 ISBN10: 1999791266 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freedom and Death Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Nov 1995
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 480pp h180mm x w110mm x s30mm 294g ISBN13: 9780571178575 ISBN13: 978-0-571-17857-5 ISBN10: 057117857X EAN: 9780571178575 x Description: Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fratricides Nikos Kazantzakis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
17 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w112mm x s17mm 165g ISBN13: 9780571105069 ISBN13: 978-0-571-10506-9 ISBN10: 0571105068 EAN: 9780571105069 x Description: The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and, with murder, death and destruction everywhere, Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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A Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata (Author) Series:
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Random House USA Paperbacks
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Dec 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h200mm x w132mm x s11mm 170g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780679762652 ISBN13: 978-0-679-76265-2 ISBN10: 0679762655 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura (Author) Eric Selland (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h197mm x w130mm x s13mm 162g ISBN13: 9781509889174 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-8917-4 ISBN10: 1509889175 EAN: 9781509889174 x Description: A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life.Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink. Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life.This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Well of Trapped Words: Elected Stories Sema Kaygusuz (Author) Maureen Freely (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
28 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm ISBN13: 9781905583614 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-61-4 ISBN10: 1905583613 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Fire Witness (Joona Linna, Book 3) Lars Kepler (Author) Series:
Joona Linna 3
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
22 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 410g ISBN13: 9780007467778 ISBN13: 978-0-00-746777-8 ISBN10: 000746777X EAN: 9780007467778 x Description: WAKE UP TO TRUE EVIL The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. ONE GIRL IS DEADAt a home for troubled girls, a young girl has been brutally murdered during the night. Her body is found arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes. ONE GIRL IS MISSINGVicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for. When a bloody hammer is discovered under her pillow, it appears that she was more than just a witness to the killing. ONE GIRL CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN IT ALLDetective Inspector Joona Linna is called in to piece the evidence together. But the case quickly descends into darker, more violent territory, leading him finally to a shocking confrontation with the past. Praise for Lars Kepler: 'Scandi noir at its best' Evening Standard 'A rich, nuanced tale, ideal for beach reading, just as long as the beach doesn't harbor too many shadows' Kirkus 'A brilliant thriller' Norrkoepings Tidningar 'Taking Europe by storm' Daily Mail 'Kepler has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul' Lev Grossman, Time 'More energetic than Mankell, as socially involved as Larsson, Kepler matches Jo Nesbo for gothic excitement' Weekend Australian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Nightmare (Joona Linna, Book 2) Lars Kepler (Author) Series:
Joona Linna 2
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s39mm 400g ISBN13: 9780007414505 ISBN13: 978-0-00-741450-5 ISBN10: 0007414501 EAN: 9780007414505 x Description: 'One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years...' Goeteborgsposten From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna He is an artist in terrorThe lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an abandoned boat. A man is found hanging alone in his apartment. This is his masterpieceShould the deaths be treated as suicide or murder? Four people know the answer. But a killer wants them dead. And only one man can destroy itCan Detective Inspector Joona Linna keep them alive long enough to find out the truth? Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo Praise for Lars Kepler: 'A high-octane, taut thriller' Marie Claire 'It doesn't get much better than this' Goeteborgsposten 'Intricate detective work and heart-ticking suspense' Boston Globe 'Kepler's plots are always thrilling' The Sunday Times
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com 'Hurtles along ... full of nuanced detail which sets it far above the average thriller ... You'll be terrified' Evening Standard 'Taking Europe by storm...ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness' Daily Mail 'Deeply scarifying stuff' Independent 'Kepler has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul' Lev Grossman, Time 'The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, at one sitting.' Arbetarbladet 'A creepy and compulsive crime thriller.' Mo Hayder 'Intelligent, original and chilling Simon Beckett 'Kepler matches the great Jo Nesbo for gothic excitement.' Weekend Australian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mosaic Soheir Khashoggi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp 212g ISBN13: 9780553814101 ISBN13: 978-0-553-81410-1 ISBN10: 0553814109 EAN: 9780553814101 x Description: Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her six-year-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordon with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and Sarah - and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life. -Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendour of Jordan, Mosaic is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions - and one woman's struggle to recapture her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family life with her work commitments. The owner of Mosaic, the thriving floral design business she has worked hard to establish, Dina has been blessed with success, beauty and, most importantly, a happy family. But one fateful day she returns to her lavish Upper East Side home to discover that her sixyear-old twins have vanished - and very suddenly, her once comfortable life is turned upside down. It is only after many desperate phone calls - and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together - that Dina is forced to accept the terrible truth: her husband, Karim, has snatched the twins and has returned to Jordan with them to begin a new life. Distraught but determined to fight for her children, Dina turns to her friends, Emmeline and Sarah and to John Constantine, the one man she must learn to trust if she can ever hope to rebuild her shattered life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything I Don't Remember Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export
Imprint:
Scribner UK
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 320pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781471155086 ISBN13: 978-1-4711-5508-6 ISBN10: 1471155080 EAN: 9781471155086 x Description: Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his girlfriend Laide and share everything with his friend Vandad. Until Vandad, marginalised and broke, desperate to get closer to Samuel, drives a wedge between the friends, and Samuel loses them both. Everything I Don't Remember is an enthralling tale of love and memory. It is also the story of a writer who, in filling out the contours of Samuel's life, is trying to grasp a universal truth - in the end, how do we account for the substance of a life?'With its energetic prose and innovative structure, Everything I Don't Remember confirms that Jonas Hassen Khemiri is not only one of Sweden's best authors, but a great talent of our time' Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty'Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Khemiri's wry , sharply observed tales of post-9-11 Swedish life have a huge following. This novel's chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth' Hari Kunzru 'A generation-defining writer' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Recipe for Sorcery Vanessa Kisuule (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Burning Eye Books
Publisher:
Burning Eye Books
Pub Date:
30 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 60pp h203mm x w133mm ISBN13: 9781911570196 ISBN13: 978-1-911570-19-6 ISBN10: 1911570196 x Description: Vanessa Kisuule's second release is a poetry collection with a difference: it is a cathartic explosion, an unspooling of long harboured fears and resentment and a delving into ugly and uncomfortable truths. It is a recipe for womanhood that changes with the whim of the seasons and the political climate. It is a feverish fistful of musings, a comedy of errors, an instruction manual, a compass, an overheard conversation in the ladies' loo, whispered secrets over a (second) bottle of wine. It is a lamentation, an homage to fellow women, at once a celebration of things to come and a mourning of things lost. It is a redefinition of what it is to be magical and otherwordly. It exposes the complex and contradictory impulses of the human spirit, the ugly tangle of emotions we must deal with in ourselves and also as a wider society. With frankness, humour and a decided fuck-you to fear, Vanessa digs deeper than she ever has to find something resembling sorcery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Separation Katie Kitamura (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Clerkenwell Press
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 204g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781781256619 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-661-9 ISBN10: 1781256616 EAN: 9781781256619 x Description: A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow Satoshi Kitamura (Illustrated by) Luis Sepulveda (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w128mm b/w ISBN13: 9781846884139 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-413-9 ISBN10: 1846884136 x Description: In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new encounter. But when he finds out his friends are in danger, he decides to rush home to warn them. Will he get there in time to save them? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirahk (Author) Christopher Moseley (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 329g ISBN13: 9781611855272 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-527-2 ISBN10: 1611855276 EAN: 9781611855272 x Description: Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they're bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe.Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty - people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with barebottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes.Told with moving and satirical prose, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Marquise of O Heinrich Von Kleist (Author) Andrew Miller (Foreword by) Richard Stokes (Translated by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 144g ISBN13: 9781843910541 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-054-1 ISBN10: 1843910543
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Dear Mr. M Herman Koch (Author) Sam Garrett (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 294g ISBN13: 9781447294702 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-9470-2 ISBN10: 144729470X EAN: 9781447294702 x Description: 'An absolute page-turner' Mail on SundayDear Mr. M,I'd like to start by telling you that I'm doing better now. I do so because you probably have no idea that I was ever doing worse. Much worse, in fact, but I'll get to that later on.Mr. M is being watched. As a famous writer, he is no stranger to the limelight, although interest in his work has been dwindling of late. His print runs are smaller than they used to be, as are the crowds at his bookshop signings . . . Our narrator clearly takes a keen interest in M.'s work, and indeed in every aspect of his life. But what exactly are his intentions? And to what does Mr. M owe the honour of his undivided attention?Our narrator seems to be no stranger to murder, while his own story appears to bear more than a passing resemblance to the plot of Mr. M's most famous novel: a teacher has an affair with a student, only to be brutally murdered by the girl and her teenage boyfriend. The body is never found.That's the problem with fiction: in real life, bodies have an awkward habit of turning up. Mr. M has used some artistic licence, and our narrator is not pleased, not pleased at all. And just before he fades into obscurity, he's prepared to give Mr. M one last review. And it's unlikely to be a rave.Dear Mr. M is an unsettling and irresistibly readable literary thriller, set in the world of writing and bookselling, by Herman Koch, the author of the international bestseller, The Dinner. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ropewalker: Between Three Plagues Volume I Jaan Kross (Author) Merike Lepasaar Beecher (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 544pp h234mm x w153mm x s41mm 708g ISBN13: 9780857054562 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-456-2 ISBN10: 0857054562 EAN: 9780857054562 x Description: The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins to greatness through wit and learning alone. As Livonia is used as a political football by the warring powers of Russia, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania, he continues to climb the greasy pole of power and influence. Even as a boy, Russow has the happy knack of being in the right place and saying the right thing at the right time. He is equally at home acting as friend and confidante to his ambitious patron and as champion for his humble rural relatives. Can anything halt his vertiginous rise? Like most young men he is prey to temptations of the flesh . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross (Author) Anselm Hollo (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
New Press
Publisher:
New Press
Pub Date:
18 May 1995
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp h234mm x w155mm 439g ISBN13: 9781565841116 ISBN13: 978-1-56584-111-6 ISBN10: 1565841115 EAN: 9781565841116 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transmission Hari Kunzru (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780141008295 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100829-5 ISBN10: 0141008296 EAN: 9780141008295 x Description: Hari Kunzru's Transmission is a witty novel about cyberspace, a Bollywood dancer and a world where everyone is connected.It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected.Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts?'An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh . . . there's nothing Kunzru couldn't manage in prose. Thoroughly engrossing' Literary Review'Funny, heartfelt and beautifully written, confirms Kunzru as one of the most talented writers of his generation' Image'Very enjoyable, I couldn't put it down. Funny and wry; it is deftly plotted; its characters intimately drawn. Blissful' Observer'Utterly affecting, a novel with devastating satirical bite' Financial TimesHari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Tears Hari Kunzru (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780241977873 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97787-3 ISBN10: 0241977878 EAN: 9780241977873 x Description: 'A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME New Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and talented. But one day they stumble on an old blues song - an undiscovered gem just waiting to be found - and land themselves in a heap of trouble.Seeking answers, Seth travels deep into the heart of the old South, accompanied by Carter's bewitching sister Leonie. But this is America, where ghosts lie uneasy in shallow graves and tugging one loose thread can unravel a bloody history of injustice. And the closer Seth gets to the haunting truth, the more he feels pursued . . .White Tears is a nail-biting ride through the terrifying spectre of America's past. It's about black lives and white privilege and the music that runs through the country's veins like blood.
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Midnight All Day Hanif Kureishi (Author) Hanif Kureishi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 210g ISBN13: 9780571203918 ISBN13: 978-0-571-20391-8 ISBN10: 0571203914 EAN: 9780571203918 x Description: The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 'a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties'. We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or aerial which seeks the unsuitable. The wrong person is, of course, right for something - to punish, bully, or humiliate us, let us down, leave us for dead, or, worst of all, give us the impression that they are not inappropriate, but almost right, thus hanging us in love's limbo. Not just anyone can do this. In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Penguin Lost Andrey Kurkov (Author) George Bird (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Mar 2005 (05 Aug 2010)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780099461692 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946169-2 ISBN10: 0099461692 EAN: 9780099461692 x Description: Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha - seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a hearttransplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might further his search for Misha, said to be in a private zoo in Chechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of atonement, and, for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and illuminating as Death and the Penguin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The President's Last Love Andrey Kurkov (Author) George Bird (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 448pp h215mm x w137mm x s34mm 472g ISBN13: 9781843432579 ISBN13: 978-1-84343-257-9 ISBN10: 1843432579 x
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com Description: Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fine health. Yet two years later Bunin undergoes a heart transplant, with very serious repercussions...Rewind to the early '90s; the Soviet Union has crumbled and in the midst of a new independent Ukraine struggling to find its feet, a young Sergey Pavlovich Bunin is on the make. Casting aside a career as a catering manager he enters the political fray and begins the long and precarious journey to the top, at the same time looking after his impoverished mother and enfeebled brother. Spanning forty years, "The President's Last Love" is Kurkov's most ambitious work to date, and delivers an intricately woven and often hilarious political satire on life before and after the Iron Curtain. A colossus of a novel concerning love, power, corruption, lies and potatoes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Angel of Death Andrey Kurkov (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h214mm x w135mm x s28mm 410g ISBN13: 9781846551178 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-117-8 ISBN10: 184655117X EAN: 9781846551178 x Description: When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of "War and Peace". Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon..."The Good Angel of Death" is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gardener from Ochakov Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h214mm x w139mm x s24mm 345g ISBN13: 9781846556159 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-615-9 ISBN10: 1846556155 EAN: 9781846556159 x Description: Igor walks along in the old Soviet policeman's uniform, confident that he'll have the best costume at the party. But Igor hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. After a perplexing conversation with the terrified man, who turns out to be a wine smuggler, and on recovering from the resulting hangover, Igor comes to an unbelievable conclusion: he has found his way back to 1957. And it isn't the innocent era his mother and her friends have so sentimentally described. As he travels between centuries, his life becomes more and more complicated. The unusual gardener who lives in his mother's shed keeps disappearing, his best friend has blackmailed the wrong people, and Igor has fallen in love with a married woman in a time before he was born. With his mother's disapproval at his absences growing, and his adventures in each time frame starting to catch up with him, Igor has to survive the past if he wants any kind of future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Milkman in the Night Andrey Kurkov (Author) Amanda Love Darragh (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 330g ISBN13: 9780099548867 ISBN13: 978-0-09-954886-7 ISBN10: 0099548860 EAN: 9780099548867 x Description: Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate. After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon. Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kiev - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thirst Pyotyr Kurtinski (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Leisure Books
Publisher:
Leisure Books
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1995
Publishing Status:
No longer our product
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h169mm x w106mm x s24mm 154g ISBN13: 9780843938265 ISBN13: 978-0-8439-3826-5 ISBN10: 0843938269 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Dragon Tattoo story David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
Millennium
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h197mm x w131mm x s32mm 354g ISBN13: 9781848667785 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-778-5 ISBN10: 1848667787 EAN: 9781848667785 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERLisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one.More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker.It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves.The Girl in the Spider's Web is book four in the Millennium series. Book five, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, was published in September 2017.The Girl Who Lived Twice - the final novel in the series by David Lagercrantz - is available to preorder now.
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Dragon Tattoo story David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
Millennium
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h178mm x w111mm x s27mm 247g ISBN13: 9781786489616 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-961-6 ISBN10: 1786489619 EAN: 9781786489616 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire . . . The tension, power and unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world.Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Dragon Tattoo story David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
Millennium
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 314g ISBN13: 9780857056436 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-643-6 ISBN10: 0857056433 EAN: 9780857056436 x Description: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire . . . The tension, power and unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world.Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow David Lagercrantz (Author) George Goulding (Translated by) George Goulding (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h196mm x w128mm x s28mm 260g ISBN13: 9781848668935 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-893-5 ISBN10: 1848668937 EAN: 9781848668935 x Description: A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero, by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB.June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing's war record. What is more, Turing's sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies? Stumbling across evidence of Turing's genius, and sensing an escape from a narrow life, Corell soon becomes captivated by Turing's brilliant and revolutionary work, and begins to dig deeper. But in the febrile atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity takes him far out of his depth, Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest: The third unputdownable novel in the Dragon Tattoo series - 100 million copies sold worldwide Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
a Dragon Tattoo story
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 720pp h197mm x w130mm x s47mm 490g ISBN13: 9780857054050 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-405-0 ISBN10: 0857054058 EAN: 9780857054050 x Description: ***********************Lisbeth Salander returns to take her revenge in the most explosive novel of the series - 100 million copies of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide"Complex, satisfying, clever, moral . . . a grown-up novel for grown-up readers . . . Rightly a publishing phenomenon all over the world" Kate MosseSalander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.Stieg Larsson's phenomenal trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz.Stieg Larsson's groundbreaking trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Girl Who Played With Fire: A Dragon Tattoo story Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
Millennium
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h198mm x w128mm x s38mm 400g ISBN13: 9780857054043 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-404-3 ISBN10: 085705404X EAN: 9780857054043 x Description: ***********************Listbeth Salander returns in the second novel in the bestselling series - 100 million copies of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide."Even more gripping and astonishing than the first . . . This novel will leave readers on the edge of their seats" Joan Smith, Sunday TimesLisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium magazine's legendary star reporter, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight - but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.Stieg Larsson's groundbreaking trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The genre-defining thriller that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander Stieg Larsson (Author) Series:
Millennium
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015 (13 Jul 2017) Publishing Status:
Quercus Publishing Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 544pp h198mm x w130mm x s35mm 371g ISBN13: 9780857054036 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-403-6 ISBN10: 0857054031 EAN: 9780857054036 x Description: ***********************The phenomenal international bestseller - 100 million copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide.One of the Bookseller's 30 most influential books of the last 30 years."What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping" Minette WaltersWith an Introduction by Val McDermidForty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.Stieg Larsson's groundbreaking trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Millennium Volume 3 Stieg Larsson (Author) Sylvain Runberg (Author) Manolo Carot (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Titan Books Ltd
Publisher:
Titan Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 367g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9781785863455 ISBN13: 978-1-78586-345-5 ISBN10: 1785863452 x Description: The Millennium saga continues with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest! From the bestselling novel series by Steig Larsson come this English translation of the phenomenal French comics adaptation! Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes Maurice Leblanc (Author) Thomas Muller (Illustrated by) David Carter (Translated by) Series:
Alma Junior Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 273g ISBN13: 9781847495617 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-561-7 ISBN10: 1847495613 x Description: A battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the shrewdest British detective This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. In `The Blonde Lady', Holmes must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is linked to Lupin, while in `The Jewish Lamp' he finds out that the theft of a lamp containing a precious jewel conceals an astonishing secret. While their tone is at times ironic and firmly tongue-in-cheek, the two stories in Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes bear all the hallmarks of classic detective fiction, and will put a smile on the lips and set the pulses racing of all fans of mystery and detective fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Endless Blue Sky: A Novel by Lee Hyoseok Hyoseok Lee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Honford Star
Publisher:
Honford Star
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 342pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781999791247 ISBN13: 978-1-9997912-4-7 ISBN10: 199979124X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk N.S. Leskov (Author) Robert Chandler (Translated by) Gilbert Adair (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h196mm x w7mm x s125mm 118g ISBN13: 9781843910688 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-068-8 ISBN10: 1843910683 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strawberry Fields Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin USA
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 294pp h215mm x w139mm x s17mm 295g ISBN13: 9780143113553 ISBN13: 978-0-14-311355-3 ISBN10: 0143113550 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lubetkin Legacy Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h181mm x w111mm x s22mm 201g ISBN13: 9780241980279 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98027-9 ISBN10: 0241980275 EAN: 9780241980279 x
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com Description: 'Lively . . . a joy to read' - The TimesShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizeFrom the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianNorth London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat.A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese.A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds.Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h181mm x w111mm x s25mm 218g ISBN13: 9780141035536 ISBN13: 978-0-14-103553-6 ISBN10: 0141035536 EAN: 9780141035536 x Description: A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog . . . Hilarious, gritty, moving and slapstick, Two Caravans has all the ingredients that made A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian so successful. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Caravans Marina Lewycka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 219g no pictures ISBN13: 9780141026992 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102699-2 ISBN10: 0141026995 EAN: 9780141026992 x Description: A field of strawberries in Kent ... And sitting in it two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Yiyun Li (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperPerennial
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 254pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780007196630 ISBN13: 978-0-00-719663-0 ISBN10: 0007196636 EAN: 9780007196630 x Description: Brilliant and original, `A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality. She leaves us with an enduring vision of a country undergoing tremendous change. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery: Living Dangerously Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w130mm x s14mm 162g ISBN13: 9780192749291 ISBN13: 978-0-19-274929-1 ISBN10: 0192749293 EAN: 9780192749291 x Description: A gripping middle-grade mystery from internationally best-selling author Astrid Lindgren It's one year on since Master Detective Kalle Blomkvist solved the case of the great jewel robbery, and once again his sleepy little town is shaken by a dreadful crime. Mysterious circumstances surround the discovery of a dead body, and super sleuth Kalle must use all of his cunning to solve his first ever murder case. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery: Master Detective Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
04 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h201mm x w140mm x s13mm 130g ISBN13: 9780192749277 ISBN13: 978-0-19-274927-7 ISBN10: 0192749277 EAN: 9780192749277 x Description: A gripping middle-grade mystery from internationally best-selling author Astrid Lindgren. For most the summer holidays in a small Swedish town would be spent swimming, fishing, or sailing. But a super sleuth like Kalle Blomkvist is always looking for the next case to crack. So when a mysterious stranger arrives in town he finds the perfect excuse to start an investigation, one that will draw him and his friends into a thrilling case of theft and deception.
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com The first of three thrilling detective stories for readers of 9+, perfect for fans of character led mystery book such as Murder Most Unladylike and Ruby Redfort. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery: White Rose Rescue Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
18 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w130mm x s13mm 148g ISBN13: 9780192749314 ISBN13: 978-0-19-274931-4 ISBN10: 0192749315 EAN: 9780192749314 x Description: A gripping middle-grade mystery from internationally best-selling author Astrid Lindgren. When Kalle Blomkvist witnesses a terrible kidnapping in the dead of night, he springs into action to follow the captors. Little does he know the trail of clues will lead to his most daring and dangerous adventure yet. The third book in a thrilling detective series for readers of 9+, perfect for fans of character led mystery book such as Murder Most Unladylike and Ruby Redfort.. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lotta Says 'NO!' Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 78g b&w drawings ISBN13: 9780192727190 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272719-0 ISBN10: 0192727192 EAN: 9780192727190 x Description: A collection of fun, engaging and gently humorous stories about Lotta, the little sister who can find trouble anywhere. She and her young siblings get into all sorts of scrapes, from falling out of their old neighbour's windows and learning some VERY bad swear words, to making their own pancake tree. Every day brings a new and funny adventure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mio's Kingdom Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h195mm x w136mm x s10mm 109g Black and white ISBN13: 9780192731975 ISBN13: 978-0-19-273197-5 ISBN10: 0192731971 EAN: 9780192731975 x Description: Did you hear the news about a boy who disappeared? No one knows what happened to him . . . except me. Young Karl leaves behind his unhappy life as an unwanted foster child to escape to Farawayland. There, he learns that his true name is Mio, and that he is the son of the king.
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com But the kingdom is under threat. The evil Sir Kato terrorizes the land, and it has been foretold that Mio is the only one who can defeat him . . . Originally published in Swedish in 1954, Astrid Lindgren's tale of Mio became a worldwide children's classic. It is celebrated in this heritage edition, complete with a new and faithful English translation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ronja the Robber's Daughter Illustrated Edition Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h212mm x w150mm x s16mm 346g B&W ISBN13: 9780192764027 ISBN13: 978-0-19-276402-7 ISBN10: 0192764020 EAN: 9780192764027 x Description: Ronja, the daughter of the robber chieftain, roams the forest but she must beware the grey dwarves and wild harpies. When she befriends Birk, the son of her father's greatest enemy, it causes uproar. Ronia and Birk can no longer be friends . . . unless they do something drastic. Like running away . . . Suddenly they are fending for themselves in the woods, but how will they survive when winter comes? And will Ronia's father ever accept her friendship with Birk so they can go home? This timeless classic story from bestselling and much-loved author, Astrid Lindgren, has been transformed by the acclaimed Studio Ghibli in a stunning TV series. This beautiful illustrated edition features artwork of the animation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seacrow Island Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h195mm x w129mm x s20mm 210g ISBN13: 9780192745576 ISBN13: 978-0-19-274557-6 ISBN10: 0192745573 EAN: 9780192745576 x Description: The day the Melkerson family arrive on Seacrow Island, it's a bit of a shock to their system. It's so quiet there-none of the shops and bustle they're used to. And the cottage they've rented for the summer is a little bit well ... basic. But what Seacrow Island does have is woods to wander in, fish to catch, boats to sail in, and all kinds of animals. And before long they find it has even more important things, too-adventure, fun, exploration, friends. Perhaps it's going to be leaving that's the really hard thing? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Children of Noisy Village Astrid Lindgren (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
22 May 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w128mm x s9mm 93g Black and White ISBN13: 9780192734594 ISBN13: 978-0-19-273459-4 ISBN10: 0192734598 EAN: 9780192734594
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Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren (Author) Lauren Child (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h246mm x w192mm x s20mm 604g Full colour ISBN13: 9780192782410 ISBN13: 978-0-19-278241-0 ISBN10: 019278241X EAN: 9780192782410 x Description: This beautiful edition of the children's classic Pippi Longstocking is illustrated throughout with wonderful collage pictures from the awardwinning Lauren Child. The contemporary design, imaginative layout of the text, and stunning illustrations from Lauren Child all add up to a perfect gift purchase. When the book published in hardback, it gathered many wonderful reviews, including this one from Books for Keeps: 'Lauren Child is the perfect choice to illustrate this handsome, large format edition of Pippi . . . her unmistakeable illustrative style helps to bring a modern feel to the book.' Pippi lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in her village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull's tail and her wildly unconventional lifestyle is matched by Lauren's free-spirited illustrations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren (Author) Lauren Child (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h185mm x w155mm x s20mm 340g Full Colour ISBN13: 9780192758231 ISBN13: 978-0-19-275823-1 ISBN10: 0192758233 EAN: 9780192758231 x Description: Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas! She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull's tail. Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy and Annika, readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun. Astrid Lindgren's children's classic first appeared in 1945. Astrid once commented, 'I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way, too.' When she was growing up, Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren's books. She remembers: 'I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old and found her completely inspiring.' Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls - notably Clarice Bean and Lola - Lauren has brought
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Do You Know Pippi Longstocking? Astrid Lindgren (Author) Ingrid Nyman (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
21 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h183mm x w215mm x s3mm 156g Colour ISBN13: 9780192739032 ISBN13: 978-0-19-273903-2 ISBN10: 0192739034 EAN: 9780192739032 x Description: When Pippi Longstocking moves in next door to Tommy and Annika they are completely amazed by their new playmate. Pippi is cheeky, courageous and completely unpredictable. She lives alone with a monkey, a horse, and no rules whatsoever! Everything is fun with Pippi around! In this story she performs at the circus, uses her super strength to stop two robbers, and throws an unusual birthday party. This charming heritage edition is the perfect introduction to Pippi. The story is published in its original picture book form, with classic illustrations that bring Pippi and all the mayhem she causes to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emil and the Great Escape Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp h198mm x w130mm x s7mm 78g line drawings ISBN13: 9780192727206 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272720-6 ISBN10: 0192727206 EAN: 9780192727206 x Description: Whether he's running his little sister up a flagpole, or trying to escape after getting locked in a shed, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun - follow him wherever he goes. A collection of utterly engaging tales from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emil and the Sneaky Rat Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
03 Jul 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w130mm x s12mm 118g b&w drawings ISBN13: 9780192727589 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272758-9 ISBN10: 0192727583 EAN: 9780192727589 x
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Emil's Clever Pig Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w130mm x s14mm 139g line drawings ISBN13: 9780192727565 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272756-5 ISBN10: 0192727567 EAN: 9780192727565 x Description: Whether he's teaching his pet pig to dance, being chased by a mad cow or wrestling a robber, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun - follow him wherever he goes. A collection of utterly engaging tales from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Karlson Flies Again Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h197mm x w129mm x s13mm 146g in b&w ISBN13: 9780192727749 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272774-9 ISBN10: 0192727745 EAN: 9780192727749 x Description: Smidge is used to Karlson, the funny little man with a propeller on his back, living on the roof. They are firm friends. Now, anytime Karlson pops in, Smidge knows that there's fun and adventure in store. In this collection of stories, they gobble cream buns, do their very best to frighten the new housekeeper and almost become television stars! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Karlson on the Roof Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
03 Jul 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w131mm x s13mm 131g b&w line drawings ISBN13: 9780192727725 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272772-5 ISBN10: 0192727729 EAN: 9780192727725 x Description: Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlson and he lives in a house on the roof. Soon Smidge and Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures, from tackling thieves and playing tricks to looping the loop and running across the rooftops. Fun and chaos burst from these charming, classic stories. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lotta Makes a Mess Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h198mm x w130mm x s6mm 66g b/w drawings ISBN13: 9780192727572 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272757-2 ISBN10: 0192727575 EAN: 9780192727572 x Description: Lotta is the little sister who can find trouble anywhere. She and her young siblings get into all sorts of scrapes. In this funny and engaging tale, a very cross Lotta runs away from home and moves in with the old lady next door. But Lotta soon begins to realise that, actually, nowhere is quite as good as home sweet home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The World's Best Karlson Astrid Lindgren (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 167g in b&w ISBN13: 9780192727732 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272773-2 ISBN10: 0192727737 EAN: 9780192727732 x Description: Smidge is used to Karlson, the funny little man with a propeller on his back, living on the roof. They are firm friends. Now, anytime Karlson pops in, Smidge knows that there's fun and adventure in store. In this collection of stories, they flood the bathroom, celebrate Karlson's birthday, and prompt a newspaper to offer a reward when Karlson is mistaken for a spy! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren (Author) Joan Tate (Translated by) Ilon Wikland (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h200mm x w130mm x s12mm 141g in black & white ISBN13: 9780192729040 ISBN13: 978-0-19-272904-0 ISBN10: 0192729047 EAN: 9780192729040 x Description: There's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother, Jonathan, who is brave, strong, and handsome - everything Karl believes he is not. Karl never wants to be parted from him. But Karl is sick, and knows he's going to die. To comfort him, Jonathan tells him stories of Nangiyala, the wonderful place he'll be going to when he dies, and where he will wait until Jonathan is ready to join him there. Then the unthinkable happens . . . Jonathan is killed in an accident. Heartbroken, Karl longs for the day he'll be reunited with his brother. When the time comes, he finds Nangiyala just as wonderful as he'd imagined. However, Nangiyala is under threat. A cruel tyrant is determined to claim it as his own, and at his command is a terrible beast that is feared throughout the land.
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Escape from Sunset Grove Minna Lindgren (Author) Series:
Lavender Ladies Detective Agency
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Finnish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 292g ISBN13: 9781447289388 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8938-8 ISBN10: 1447289382 EAN: 9781447289388 x Description: It's not easy sharing a flat. Especially when you're 95 years old.Change is afoot at Sunset Grove retirement home, and its residents aren't impressed. Under threat from falling masonry, best friends Irma and Siiri are forced out of their home to negotiate twenty-first-century living in the centre of Helsinki. Their new surroundings throw up an endless number of daily challenges, from caring for the ailing Anna-Lisa to the mystery of which of the many remotes controls the TV. The pair are joined by growing numbers of friends in their flat-share, and their new close-quarters living raises some unexpected questions. As the Lavender Ladies begin to dig a little deeper, they find themselves following a trail of corruption, deceit and intimidation that might just lead them to their own front door . . . The Lavender Ladies must steel themselves for what is set to be their most dangerous case yet.Escape from Sunset Grove is the second hilarious and heartwarming crime caper in Minna Lindgren's Lavender Ladies trilogy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The End of Sunset Grove Minna Lindgren (Author) Series:
Lavender Ladies Detective Agency
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Finnish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w130mm x s24mm 252g ISBN13: 9781447289357 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8935-7 ISBN10: 1447289358 EAN: 9781447289357 x Description: Best friends Irma and Siiri are relieved when they can finally return home, but things have changed in the retirement home . . . Sunset Grove is under new management, a sinister organisation that promises spiritual enlightenment in return for donations from its residents. And the staff seem to have disappeared, replaced by technology that remotely takes care of all of their needs, if only they could work out how to use it . . . The Lavender Ladies are increasingly suspicious of the new order and plan an elaborate act of sabotage. But their last hurrah has some drastic consequences - will the Lavender Ladies get more than they bargained for?Irma and Siiri go out with a bang in The End of Sunset Grove, the conclusion to Minna Lindgren's Lavender Ladies trilogy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency: Death in Sunset Grove Minna Lindgren (Author) Series:
Lavender Ladies Detective Agency
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
16 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Finnish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h196mm x w129mm x s24mm 274g ISBN13: 9781447289326 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8932-6 ISBN10: 1447289323 EAN: 9781447289326 x Description: Good detectives come in all manner of guises...Meet Siiri and Irma, best friends and the queen bees of Sunset Grove, a retirement community for those still young at heart. With a combined age of nearly 180, Siiri and Irma are still just as inquisitive and witty as when they first met decades ago. But when their comfortable world is upturned by a suspicious death at Sunset Grove, Siiri and Irma are shocked into doing something about it. Determined to find out exactly what happened and why, they begin their own private investigations and form The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency. The trouble is, beneath Sunset Grove's calm facade, there is more going on than meets the eye, and Siiri and Irma soon discover far more than they bargained for . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scales of Injustice: The Complete Fiction of Loa Ho Ho Loa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Honford Star
Publisher:
Honford Star
Pub Date:
27 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781999791223 ISBN13: 978-1-9997912-2-3 ISBN10: 1999791223 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Horror Handbook Paul van Loon (Author) Axel Scheffler (Illustrated by) Sander Berg (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w128mm 159g b/w ISBN13: 9781846884177 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-417-7 ISBN10: 1846884179 EAN: 9781846884177 x Description: What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect yourself from witches? All of these questions and more are answered in this book, which will finally give you all the information you ever wanted to know about ghosts, zombies,
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Day After Day Carlo Lucarelli (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 240pp h178mm x w110mm x s15mm 131g ISBN13: 9780099464389 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946438-9 ISBN10: 0099464381 EAN: 9780099464389 x Description: A professional killer is at large in the cities of Italy. Code-named 'Pit Bull', he is a master of disguise and an expert with weapons. He modifies his guns and his bullets are untraceable. His skill with prosthetics, wigs and makeup means that no two victims witness the same terrifying final vision. This is a hunt for a man with no face. Only the picture of a pit bull terrier left behind at each murder can link the crimes. Day after day, Ispettore Negro works on her seemingly impossible case. But when a young man unwittingly encounters Pit Bull in an internet chat room, he provides Negro with the clue that could lead her to her target. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miramar Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Pub Date:
14 Dec 1992
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 183pp h203mm x w133mm x s13mm 164g ISBN13: 9780385264785 ISBN13: 978-0-385-26478-5 ISBN10: 038526478X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Palace Of Desire: Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Cairo Trilogy
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1994 (04 Jul 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w127mm x s27mm 294g ISBN13: 9780552995818 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99581-8 ISBN10: 0552995819 EAN: 9780552995818 x Description: The sensual and provocative second volume in the Cairo Trilogy, Palace Of Desire follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities.Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son. His rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination as they test the loosening reins of societal and parental control. And Ahmad's youngest son, in an unforgettable portrayal of unrequited love, ardently courts the sophisticated daughter of a rich Europeanised family.
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Sugar Street: Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Cairo Trilogy
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Aug 1994 (04 Jul 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w127mm x s20mm 220g ISBN13: 9780552995825 ISBN13: 978-0-552-99582-5 ISBN10: 0552995827 EAN: 9780552995825 x Description: Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz's masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes.But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. One grandson is a communist activist, another a Muslim fundamentalist, both working for what they believe will be a better world. And Ridwan, the inheritor of his father's charms, launches a political career aided by a homosexual affair with prominent politician. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Voices From The Other World Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House USA Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 112pp 123g ISBN13: 9781400076666 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-7666-6 ISBN10: 1400076668 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Banthology: Seven Stories from Seven Countries Rania Mamoun (Author) Wajdi Al-Anoud (Author) Najwa bin Shatwan (Author) Wajdi Al-Ahdal (Author) Zaher Omareen (Author) Cristina Ali Farah (Author) Sarah Cleave (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781910974360 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-36-0 ISBN10: 1910974366 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction Masashi Matsuie (Edited by) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 227g Black and white map illustrations ISBN13: 9781905583577 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-57-7 ISBN10: 1905583575 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Autumn Bridge Takashi Matsuoka (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 576pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780099445388 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944538-8 ISBN10: 0099445387 x Description: The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately traying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Butterball Guy de Maupassant (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Dr. Germaine Greer (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 160g ISBN13: 9781843910473 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-047-3 ISBN10: 1843910470 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction Marcelo Moutinho (Author) Elvira Vigna Lehmann (Author) Joao Ximenes Braga (Author) Domingos Pellegrini (Author) Lucia Bettencourt (Author) Joao,Gilberto Noll (Author) Rafael Cardoso Denis (Author) Toni Marques (Edited by) Katie Slade (Edited by) Daniel Hahn (Translated by) Kimberly Hastings (Translated by) Jethro Soutar (Translated by) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 159g ISBN13: 9781905583683 ISBN13: 978-1-905583-68-3 ISBN10: 1905583680 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic Robert Musil (Author) Sophie Wilkins (Translated by) Series:
Picador Classic
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 1152pp h198mm x w132mm x s53mm 796g ISBN13: 9781447289432 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8943-2 ISBN10: 1447289439 EAN: 9781447289432 x Description: With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist.Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil is a work of immeasurable importance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Annotated Lolita Vladimir Nabokov (Author) Alfred Appel (Introduction by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 372g ISBN13: 9780141185040 ISBN13: 978-0-14-118504-0 ISBN10: 014118504X EAN: 9780141185040 x Description: When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Macbeth Jo Nesbo (Author) Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 426g ISBN13: 9780099598060 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959806-0 ISBN10: 009959806X EAN: 9780099598060 x Description: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top.Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it. 'The king of all crime writers'Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hour of the Wolf Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
The Van Veeteren series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
22 Nov 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 323g ISBN13: 9780330512596 ISBN13: 978-0-330-51259-6 ISBN10: 0330512595 EAN: 9780330512596
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The G File Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
The Van Veeteren series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 624pp h197mm x w130mm x s38mm 430g ISBN13: 9781447217398 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1739-8 ISBN10: 144721739X EAN: 9781447217398 x Description: A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . A dark and sinister case from the past comes back to haunt Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the final novel in the Van Veeteren series, The G File by Hakan Nesser.1987. Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective is hired by a woman to follow her husband Jaan 'G' Hennan. A few days later, his client is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool.Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case. Van Veeteren has encountered Jaan 'G' Hennan before and knows only too well the man's dark capabilities. As more information emerges about G's shadowy past, the Chief Inspector becomes more desperate than ever to convict him. But G has a solid alibi - and no one else can be found in relation to the crime.2002. Fifteen years have passed and the G File remains the one case former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren has never been able to solve. But when Verlangan's daughter reports the private detective missing, Van Veeteren returns to Maardam CID once more. For all Verlangan left behind was a cryptic note; and a telephone message in which he claimed to have finally discovered the proof of G's murderous past . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Living and the Dead in Winsford Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h197mm x w131mm x s33mm 330g ISBN13: 9781447271949 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7194-9 ISBN10: 1447271947 EAN: 9781447271949 x Description: Winner of the Rosenkrantz Award for Best Thriller of the YearFrom the bestselling, award-winning Swedish author Hakan Nesser, The Living and the Dead in Winsford is a gripping and deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set on Exmoor.There is nobody in the world who knows that we are here . . .A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Maria's sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination.As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn't quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com long, dark evenings close in and the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? And who is trying to find her?A haunting, masterly unravelling of a dreadful crime, in The Living and the Dead in Winsford, Hakan Nesser, the bestselling, award-winning author of the Van Veeteren series, tightens the tension like a noose . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mind's Eye Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
The Van Veeteren series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
01 May 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h196mm x w131mm x s27mm 278g ISBN13: 9780330492782 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49278-2 ISBN10: 0330492780 EAN: 9780330492782 x Description: A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . The Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser is the first novel in the stunning Van Veeteren series.Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late? Drawing a blank after exhaustive interviews, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren remains convinced that something, or someone, in the dead woman's life has caused these tragic events. But the reasons for her speedy remarriage have died with her. And as he delves even deeper, Van Veeteren realizes that the past never stops haunting the present . . .The Mind's Eye is followed by the tensely gripping Borkmann's Point. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Weeping Girl Hakan Nesser (Author) Series:
The Van Veeteren series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h196mm x w130mm x s35mm 326g ISBN13: 9781447216582 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-1658-2 ISBN10: 144721658X EAN: 9781447216582 x Description: A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Hakan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl.Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . . . A community is left reeling after a teacher - Arnold Maager - is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child. Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's daughter Mikaela finally learns the terrible truth about her father. Desperate for answers, Mikaela travels to the institution at Lejnice, where Maager has been held since his trial. But soon afterwards she inexplicably vanishes. Detective Inspector Ewa Moreno from the Maardam Police is on holiday in the area when she finds herself drawn into the case of Mikaela's disappearance. But before she can make any headway in the investigation, Maager himself disappears - and then a body is found. It will soon become clear to Ewa that only unravelling the events of the past will unlock this dark mystery . . .The Weeping Girl is followed by book nine in the series, The Strangler's Honeymoon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Darkest Day Hakan Nesser (Author) Sarah Death (Translated by) Series:
The Barbarotti Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h197mm x w129mm x s34mm 380g ISBN13: 9781509809349 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-0934-9 ISBN10: 1509809341 EAN: 9781509809349 x Description: The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hakan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate a big family birthday. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn . . . Before the weekend is over, two members of the Hermansson family are missing, and it's up to Inspector Barbarotti - a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases - to determine exactly what happened on that darkest day, and unravel a web of sinister family secrets in the process . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return Hakan Nesser (Author) Laurie Thompson (Translated by) Series:
The Van Veeteren series
Edition:
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w132mm x s28mm 342g ISBN13: 9780330492775 ISBN13: 978-0-330-49277-5 ISBN10: 0330492772 EAN: 9780330492775 x Description: A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Hakan Nesser's third title in the Van Veeteren series is the dark and compelling The Return.An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification bar one crucial detail . . . Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double murderer who disappeared nine months before, shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation, Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed, for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them . . . And is he simply on the wrong track completely?The Return is followed by the fourth title in the series, Woman with Birthmark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels Kenzaburo Oe (Author) John Nathan (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Marion Boyars Publishers Publisher: Ltd
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2000
Active
Publishing Status:
Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 276pp h210mm ISBN13: 9780714530482 ISBN13: 978-0-7145-3048-2 ISBN10: 0714530484 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 236g ISBN13: 9781782391289 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-128-9 ISBN10: 1782391282 EAN: 9781782391289 x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
27 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h210mm x w148mm x s24mm 366g ISBN13: 9781782391258 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-125-8 ISBN10: 1782391258 EAN: 9781782391258 x Description: 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army - Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.
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Purge Sofi Oksanen (Author) Lola Rogers (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
01 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h200mm x w125mm x s30mm 378g ISBN13: 9781848872134 ISBN13: 978-1-84887-213-4 ISBN10: 1848872135 EAN: 9781848872134 x Description: Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding.Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years.Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Blue Room Hanne Orstavik (Author) Deborah Dawkin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 174pp h190mm x w125mm x s14mm ISBN13: 9781908670151 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-15-1 ISBN10: 1908670150 x Description: A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Can she overcome her fears? Will she shout for help? Will she climb out of her fourth floor window? ------ Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Everyone who has read Fifty Shades of Grey should read this book. Why? The Blue Room holds up a mirror to a part of the female psyche that yearns for submission. The story shows how erotic fantasies are formed by the relationship with our parents. It then delves further to analyse the struggle of women to separate from their mothers - a struggle that is rarely addressed in either literature or society.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Riga: A City in Short Fiction Becca Parkinson (Edited by) Eva Eglaja-Kristsone (Edited by) Dace Ruksane (Author) Kristine Zelve (Author) Pauls Bankovskis (Author) Gundega Repse (Author) Svens Kuzmins (Author) Ilze Jansone (Author) Andra Neiburga (Author) Juris Zvirgzdins (Author) Series:
Reading the City
Edition:
Imprint:
Comma Press
Publisher:
Comma Press
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781910974384 ISBN13: 978-1-910974-38-4 ISBN10: 1910974382
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Shadow Chaser Alexey Pehov (Author) Series:
THE CHRONICLES OF SIALA
Edition:
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 368pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781847396723 ISBN13: 978-1-84739-672-3 ISBN10: 1847396720 EAN: 9781847396723 x Description: Shadow Harold, master thief, is in over his head. When he accepted the King's commission (not that he had any choice in the matter) he did not think that it would be to retrieve a legendary artefact from Hrad Spein, the underground resting place of ogres, elves and wizards; a place of dread, and immeasurable power that has been sealed up for centuries. Unless Harold finds the long-lost Horn, the Nameless One will overrun the realm of Valiostr. But that was just the first of the challenges facing Harold. He is magically bound to the Key with which the dark elves sealed Hrad Spein, and which his enemies are determined to obtain at any cost. Treachery and death follow Harold and his companions as they fight to reach their goal. On one side is the threat of the Nameless One; on the other, the servants of the mysterious Master. A long-dead mage is living in Harold's head, and his dreams are haunted by terrible visions. What is the meaning of the Houses of Power, Pain, Love, and the House of Fear? Still resolutely denying his destiny as the mystical Dancer in the Shadows, Harold's journey takes him to the Forest of Zagraba, 'the land where the gods walked at the dawn of time'... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House in the Tree Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Bianca Pitzorno (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w128mm b/w ISBN13: 9781846884108 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-410-8 ISBN10: 1846884101 x Description: All children dream of having a secret house where they can live on their own, far from any rules and regulations. But not all of them are as lucky as Aglaia, who lives at the top of a magical tree together with her friend Bianca and an incredible host of flying dogs, talking cats, carnivorous flowers and children who speak in verse.Inventively illustrated by Quentin Blake, Aglaia's adventures - and her battles with the gruff Signor Brullo and the woodmen who want to cut down the tree - are sure to enchant and inspire the imagination of every child. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Manon Lescaut Francois Prevost (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Dr. Germaine Greer (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 220pp h195mm x w125mm x s15mm 213g ISBN13: 9781843910756 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-075-6 ISBN10: 1843910756 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The In Search of Lost Time: v. 5: Captive Marcel Proust (Author) Terence Kilmartin (Volume editor) T. Kilmartin (Translated by) Scott Moncrieff (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 832pp h198mm x w126mm 560g Film tie-in (originally 0099362619) ISBN13: 9780099425137 ISBN13: 978-0-09-942513-7 ISBN10: 0099425130 x Description: Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads leads to Inishowen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eugene Onegin And Other Poems Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Author) Charles Johnston (Translated by) Series:
Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Edition:
Imprint:
Everyman's Library
Publisher:
Everyman
Pub Date:
30 Apr 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h165mm x w115mm x s18mm 222g ISBN13: 9781857157390 ISBN13: 978-1-85715-739-0 ISBN10: 1857157397 EAN: 9781857157390 x Description: Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work - a novel in verse - is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eugene Onegin and Other Stories Alexander Pushkin (Author) Roger Clarke (Translated by) Roger Clarke (Introduction and notes by) Tom Griffith (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 233g ISBN13: 9781840221367 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-136-7 ISBN10: 1840221364 EAN: 9781840221367 x Description: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is, for Russians, their greatest writer; Eugene Onegin is his greatest work. Yet it remains little known outside Russia. Attempts to render Pushkin's Russian stanzas into verse have tried in vain to imitate the most inimitable features of the original, while masking many of its other glories. This prose version, for the first time, gives us a Eugene Onegin that is easy and enjoyable to read. Where previous versions lost the novel in the verse, Roger Clarke has discarded the verse to bring us the novel. And more than the novel: what shines through here are not only Puskin's touching story and subtle characterisation, but his incisive pictures of contemporary Russian life and landscapes, his social and literary comment, his humour, and indeed the essential poetry of the work. The addition of four captivating verse-tales from Pushkin's early maturity makes this book a must for anybody interested in Russian or European literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gargantua Francois Rabelais (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Paul Bailey (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w14mm x s125mm 210g ISBN13: 9781843910572 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-057-2 ISBN10: 1843910578 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Forest of the Hanged Liviu Rebreanu (Author) Series:
Casemate Classic War Fiction
Edition:
Imprint:
Casemate Publishers
Publisher:
Casemate Publishers
Pub Date:
28 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 352pp h190mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9781612004686 ISBN13: 978-1-61200-468-6 ISBN10: 1612004687 EAN: 9781612004686 x Description: During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined the Austro-Hungarian army. But soon Romania itself entered the war, and Bologa found himself fighting his own people. The Forest of the Hanged asks a fundamental question about war: namely, why does a man fight? Apostol condemns an officer to death for desertion and attempting to give information to the enemy. He watches the execution of the officer with satisfaction until he witnesses a fellow soldier's grief and pity for the dead man. At this point his world shifts. His growing self-doubt and uncertainty lead him to question beliefs he once held without question. Unprepared for his own reaction when he is once again called to sit on a court martial, he finds that he too must go to the forest. This very rare, richly descriptive novel lays bare the inner conflict engendered by a total war, yet seldom expressed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w133mm x s15mm 200g ISBN13: 9781509812868 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-1286-8 ISBN10: 1509812865 EAN: 9781509812868 x Description: Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel 2018'[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Gunter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.' GuardianWalter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances. In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel by German author Ralf Rothmann. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Saddam City Mahmoud Saeed (Author) Ahmad Sadri (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 130pp h210mm x w135mm 154g ISBN13: 9780863563508 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-350-8 ISBN10: 0863563503 x Description: One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated, shuttles from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family. The question of guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks. Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of the wanton and brutal treatment of the Iraqi people by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid,the story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seeing Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h200mm x w132mm x s20mm 222g ISBN13: 9780099483625 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948362-5 ISBN10: 0099483629 EAN: 9780099483625 x Description: Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Sep 1999 (02 Nov 2017)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 293g ISBN13: 9781860466847 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-684-7 ISBN10: 1860466842 EAN: 9781860466847 x Description: Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and necessary evil - but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth.'An original, wild and beautiful book' Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stone Raft Jose Saramago (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Harvill Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
21 May 2000 (05 Dec 2019)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 232g ISBN13: 9781860467219 ISBN13: 978-1-86046-721-9 ISBN10: 1860467210 EAN: 9781860467219 x Description: What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft. While the authorities panic and tourists flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by omens that burden them with a peculiar responsibility. In this magical realist tale, the six take to the road, finding themselves adrift in a world now unfamiliar and forced to reckon with their relationships, human psychology and the shakiness of belief itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Ghost-seer Friedrich Schiller (Author) Martin Jarvis (Foreword by) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2003
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h196mm x w125mm x s10mm 180g ISBN13: 9781843910343 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-034-3 ISBN10: 1843910349 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Whole Life Robert Seethaler (Author) Charlotte Collins (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w130mm x s11mm 129g ISBN13: 9781447283904 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-8390-4 ISBN10: 1447283902 EAN: 9781447283904 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII - where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus - and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven . . . Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tobacconist Robert Seethaler (Author) Charlotte Collins (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s15mm 183g ISBN13: 9781509806591 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-0659-1 ISBN10: 1509806598 EAN: 9781509806591
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: 'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.' Daily MailFrom Robert Seethaler, the author of the Man Booker International shortlisted A Whole Life, comes a deeply moving story of ordinary lives profoundly affected by the Third Reich, in the tradition of novels such as Fred Uhlman's classic Reunion, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room.When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will soon be supplying the great and good of Vienna with their newspapers and cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, whose predilection for cigars and occasional willingness to dispense romantic advice will forge a bond between him and young Franz.It is 1937. In a matter of months Germany will annex Austria and the storm that has been threatening to engulf the little tobacconist will descend, leaving the lives of Franz, Otto and Professor Freud irredeemably changed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly Luis Sepulveda (Author) Satoshi Kitamura (Illustrated by) Chris Sheban (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w128mm 137g ISBN13: 9781846884009 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-400-9 ISBN10: 1846884004 EAN: 9781846884009 x Description: Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends honour the promise and give Lucky, the adopted little seagull, the strength to discover her true nature? A moving, uplifting and life-enhancing story with a strong environmental theme, Luis Sepulveda's instant children's classic has been a worldwide bestseller and is presented here with new drawings by acclaimed illustrator Satoshi Kitamura. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Open Letter
Publisher:
Open Letter
Pub Date:
23 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 514pp h216mm x w140mm 610g ISBN13: 9781934824368 ISBN13: 978-1-934824-36-8 ISBN10: 1934824364 EAN: 9781934824368 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Light and the Dark Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h198mm x w132mm x s30mm 316g ISBN13: 9781780871080 ISBN13: 978-1-78087-108-0 ISBN10: 1780871082 EAN: 9781780871080 x Description: Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with life and she helps him to come to terms with death. Half male, half female; half exploration of the physical and the immediate, half meditation on the intangible and the infinite, The Light and the Dark is a literary feat as balanced and beautiful as it is prodigious and profound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories Mikhail Shishkin (Author) Marian Schwartz (Translated by) Leo Shtutin (Translated by) Mariya Bashkatova (Translated by) Sylvia Maizell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub Date:
19 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 180pp h210mm x w134mm 241g ISBN13: 9781941920039 ISBN13: 978-1-941920-03-9 ISBN10: 1941920039 x Description: "A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards. Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile. Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize--winning "Calligraphy Lesson," and his most recent story "Nabokov's Inkblot," which was written for a dramatic adaptation performed in Zurich in 2013. Mikhail Shishkin (b. 1961 in Moscow) is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature. A former interpreter for refugees in Switzerland, Shishkin divides his time between Moscow, Switzerland, and Germany. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Animal's People Indra Sinha (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning No warning 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 324g ISBN13: 9781416526278 ISBN13: 978-1-4165-2627-8 ISBN10: 1416526277 EAN: 9781416526278 x Description: Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. ANIMAL'S PEOPLE is a stunningly humane work of storytelling that takes us right to the heart of contemporary India. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Armorica S. P. Somtow (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
18 Aug 1994
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 256pp h178mm x w108mm 152g ISBN13: 9781857231885 ISBN13: 978-1-85723-188-5 ISBN10: 1857231880 x Description: In this sequel to "Riverrun", young Theo Etchison is once again drawn into a terrifying dimension - to play King's fool on a bizarre odyssey across an inverted land, and to rescue his own brother from the hell that has claimed him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 208pp h210mm x w141mm x s16mm 208g ISBN13: 9780374533106 ISBN13: 978-0-374-53310-6 ISBN10: 0374533105 EAN: 9780374533106 x Description: It's Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait - that's just his ringtone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers - and one of the country's most feared men. In this new New Russia, where futuristic technology and the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible are in perfect synergy, Komiaga will attend extravagant parties, partake in brutal executions, and consume an arsenal of drugs. Vladimir Sorokin has imagined a near future both too disturbing to contemplate and too realistic to dismiss. But like all of his best work, Sorokin's new novel explodes with invention and dark humour. A startling,
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The Blizzard Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Pub Date:
02 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Hardback 160pp h210mm x w139mm x s15mm ISBN13: 9780374114374 ISBN13: 978-0-374-11437-4 ISBN10: 0374114374 x Description: Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque all in service of bringing out stinging truths about life in modern-day Russia. In The Blizzard, we are immersed in the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century Russia. Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease but is stymied in his travels by an all consuming snowstorm, an impenetrable blizzard that turns a drive that should last only a few hours into a voyage of days and, finally, a journey into eternity. The Blizzard dramatises a timeless metaphysical predicament. The characters in this nearly postapocalyptic world are constantly in motion and yet somehow trapped and frozen, spending day and night fighting their way through the storm on an expedition filled with extraordinary encounters, dangerous escapades, torturous imaginings, and amorous adventures. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly descriptive, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive writers working today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ice Trilogy Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Jamey Gambrell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
NYRB Classics
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 704pp h202mm x w128mm x s37mm 580g ISBN13: 9781590173862 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-386-2 ISBN10: 1590173864 EAN: 9781590173862 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Queue Vladimir Sorokin (Author) Sally Laird (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
NYRB Classics
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pub Date:
23 Oct 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 280pp h200mm x w130mm x s15mm 290g ISBN13: 9781590172742 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-274-2 ISBN10: 1590172744 EAN: 9781590172742 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Aisha Ahdaf Soueif (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
08 Feb 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 194pp h198mm x w129mm 163g ISBN13: 9780747525363 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-2536-3 ISBN10: 0747525366 EAN: 9780747525363 x Description: By the author of In The Eye Of The Sun, this superb collection of stories is united by the central character, an Egyptian girl growing up in both Egypt and Britain. The stories are populated by the characters she meets, each moving in their own world as Aisha grows up and travels in Cairo and London. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Eye of the Sun Ahdaf Soueif (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
20 May 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 800pp h198mm x w129mm 640g ISBN13: 9780747545897 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-4589-7 ISBN10: 0747545898 x Description: This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or so, perplexed and bloody years, and a story about home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sandpiper Ahdaf Soueif (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
06 Mar 1997
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm 135g ISBN13: 9780747530817 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-3081-7 ISBN10: 0747530815 EAN: 9780747530817 x Description: From the author of AISHA and IN THE EYE OF THE SUN, a paperback edition of a collection of stories which provide insight into Egyptian and Western life and the links between them, looking at relationships within and across continents, feuds and key events in the lives of certain characters. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad Johanna Spyri (Author) Susan Hellard (Illustrated by) Peter James Bowman (Translated by) Series:
Alma Junior Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Alma Classics
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w128mm 220g b/w ISBN13: 9781847496652 ISBN13: 978-1-84749-665-2 ISBN10: 1847496652 x Description: Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother's sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, her aunt is forced to entrust her young charge into the care of her grandfather, the reclusive Alp-Uncle who lives in the mountains without any interaction with the villagers beneath. The curmudgeonly old man is initially reluctant to accept the new arrangement, but his grand-daughter's warmth, cleverness and exuberance soon win him over, while Heidi learns to love her new surroundings and makes a new friend, Peter the goatherd. But as Heidi gets settled in her new life, little does she suspect that a major upheaval is just around the corner. A timeless classic of Swiss literature that has inspired many adaptations and has captured the imaginations of children the world over, Heidi's Early Lessons and Travels is here presented in a brand-new, unabridged translation by James Bowman, with charming illustrations by Susan Hellard. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm Too Fond of My Fur! Series:
Geronimo Stilton
Edition:
Imprint:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Publisher:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 115g 165 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781782263593 ISBN13: 978-1-78226-359-3 ISBN10: 1782263594 EAN: 9781782263593 x Description: Geronimo is determined to prove that he's a good friend, even if it means climbing Mouse Everest! Professor Paws von Volt needs him, so Geronimo sets out on an epic rescue mission with the help of his crazy family. But what is that looming shadow following him? And why is Geronimo the only mouse able to see it? The series is perfect for 5 to 8 year old's both avid and reluctant readers due to its expressive typeset, fun illustrations and humorous stories. Supplementary material is available: www.sweetcherrypublishing.com/resources _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Cheese Experiment Geronimo Stilton (Author) Series:
Geronimo Stilton
Edition:
Imprint:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Publisher:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 115g 310 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781782263722 ISBN13: 978-1-78226-372-2 ISBN10: 1782263721 EAN: 9781782263722 x Description: *Over 140 million copies sold worldwide *Good for reluctant readers due to illustrative typeset *Educational edge as books contain facts about various places *Activity packs available to accompany certain titles *More fun and games online at www.geronimostilton.com/UK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Treasure of Easter Island Geronimo Stilton (Author) Series:
Geronimo Stilton
Edition:
Imprint:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Publisher:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w112mm x s8mm 115g 127 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781782263753 ISBN13: 978-1-78226-375-3 ISBN10: 1782263756 EAN: 9781782263753 x Description: *Over 140 million copies sold worldwide *Good for reluctant readers due to illustrative typeset *Educational edge as books contain facts about various places *Activity packs available to accompany certain titles *More fun and games online at www.geronimostilton.com/UK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Welcome to Mouldy Manor Geronimo Stilton (Author) Series:
Geronimo Stilton
Edition:
Imprint:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Publisher:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 115g 305 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781782263746 ISBN13: 978-1-78226-374-6 ISBN10: 1782263748 EAN: 9781782263746
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Mouse Overboard! Geronimo Stilton (Author) Danilo Loizedda (Illustrated by) Christian Aliprandi (Illustrated by) Series:
Geronimo Stilton
Edition:
Imprint:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Publisher:
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback CPSIA choking hazard - No choking hazard warning necessary, EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 115g 304 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9781782263661 ISBN13: 978-1-78226-366-1 ISBN10: 1782263667 EAN: 9781782263661 x Description: *Over 140 million copies sold worldwide *Good for reluctant readers due to illustrative typeset *Educational edge as books contain facts about various places *Activity packs available to accompany certain titles *More fun and games online at www.geronimostilton.com/UK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export and UK open market ed
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
04 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 329pp h178mm x w111mm 199g ISBN13: 9780747558323 ISBN13: 978-0-7475-5832-3 ISBN10: 0747558329 x Description: Captures the loves and losses of a dying man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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A Perfect Hoax Italo Svevo (Author) J. G. Nichols (Translated by) T. Parks (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Aug 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h8mm x w125mm x s196mm 140g ISBN13: 9781843910589 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-058-9 ISBN10: 1843910586 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gem Squash Tokoloshe Rachel Zadok (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
16 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 224g ISBN13: 9780330441193 ISBN13: 978-0-330-44119-3 ISBN10: 0330441191 EAN: 9780330441193 x Description: She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat. Faith leads an isolated existence on her family's drought stricken farm in the Northern Transvaal of South Africa. When the rain stopped, her father took to the road as a travelling salesman, returning only at weekends. Now Faith lives with her mother Bella and dog Boesman anticipating his visits - until one day he stops coming and Bella's health begins to go into rapid decline. Fifteen years later Bella has died incarcerated in the Sterkfontein asylum for the criminally insane. Faith has not spoken to her mother for ten years and is on the brink of a breakdown of her own. Now, with her mother's death, she inherits the farm and must return to confront the dark mysteries of the past . . . In prose as lithe and imaginative as that of Alexandra Fuller, Rachel Zadok te Riele recreates the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa. As Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her, what emerges is a richly compelling, emotionally resonant tale of courage set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided and deeply beautiful country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Drinking Den Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Series:
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Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 330g ISBN13: 9780140449549 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044954-9 ISBN10: 014044954X EAN: 9780140449549
www.NielsenBookDataOnline.com x Description: Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by Robin Buss.Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband's drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise's plans begin to unravel tragically. The Drinking Den caused a sensation when it was first published, with its gritty depiction of the poverty and squalor, slums and drinking houses of the Parisian underclass. The seventh novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle, it was the work that made his reputation. And, in his moving portrayal of Gervaise's struggle for happiness, Zola created one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature.Robin Buss's translation renders Zola's street argot into clear, contemporary English. This edition also includes an introduction discussing Zola's Naturalistic method, with maps of Paris, Zola's preface responding to his critics, notes, a chronology and further reading.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).If you enjoyed The Drinking Den, you might like Zola's The Beast Within, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Therese Raquin Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g ISBN13: 9780140449440 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044944-0 ISBN10: 0140449442 EAN: 9780140449440 x Description: Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss.In the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. Therese Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and borught its twenty-seven-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout his life. Zola's novel is not only an uninhibited portrayal of adultery, madness and ghostly revenge, but also a devastating exploration of the darkest aspects of human existence.Robin Buss's translation superbly conveys Zola's fearlessly honest and matter-of-fact style. In his introduction, he discusses Zola's life and literary career, and the influence of art, literature and science on his writing. This edition also includes the preface to the second edition of 1868, a chronology, further reading and notes.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).If you enjoyed Therese Raquin, you might like Zola's Germinal, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) Emile Zola (Author) Robin Buss (Edited by) Robin Buss (Translated by) Robin Buss (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2001 (26 Oct 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 319g ISBN13: 9780140447835 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044783-5 ISBN10: 0140447830 EAN: 9780140447835 x Description: Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Delight is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern translation by Robin Buss, who has also introduced the novel.The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace. Then Denise Baudu, a naive provincial girl, becomes an assistant at the store - and Mouret discovers that he in turn can also be enchanted. With its greedy customers, gossiping staff and vibrant sense of theatre, The Ladies' Delight (Au Bonheur des Dames in the original French) is one of the most richly exciting novels in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle.This edition also contains a bibliography, introduction, chronology and explanatory notes.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).'A complete page-turner about the consumer society, greed, fashion and instant gratification'India Knight'A fine translation'The Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nana Emile Zola (Author) George Holden (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jun 1972 (25 Mar 2004)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 330g ISBN13: 9780140442632 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044263-2 ISBN10: 0140442634 EAN: 9780140442632 x Description: Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Earth Emile Zola (Author) Douglas Parmee (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jun 1980 (29 Jun 2006)
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 371g ISBN13: 9780140443875 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044387-5 ISBN10: 0140443878 EAN: 9780140443875 x Description: Part of the vast Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Earth was regarded by Emile Zola's as his greatest novel. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee.When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three children: his penny-pinching daughter Fanny, his eldest son - a far from holy figure known as 'Jesus Christ' - and the lecherous Buteau, Macquart's friend. But in a community where land is everything, sibling rivalry quickly turns to brutal hatred, as Buteau declares himself unsatisfied with his lot. A fascinating portrayal of a struggling but decadent community, The Earth offers a compelling exploration of the destructive nature of human ignorance and greed.Douglas Parmee's translation vividly conveys the naturalistic tone of the original in clear, contemporary English. This edition also includes an introduction, exploring Zola's motivation in writing The Earth and considering its influence on his contemporaries.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).If you enjoyed The Earth, you might like Zola's Germinal, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Germinal Emile Zola (Author) Roger Pearson (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 404g ISBN13: 9780140447422 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044742-2 ISBN10: 0140447423 EAN: 9780140447422 x Description: Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France, translated with an introduction by Roger Pearson in Penguin Classics.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. The thirteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.Roger Pearson's lively and modern new translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the social and political background to Zola's masterpiece, in particular the changing relationship between labour and capital. This edition also contains a further reading list and filmography, chronology, notes and glossary.Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).If you enjoyed Germinal, you might like Zola's Therese Raquin, also available in Penguin Classics.
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The Beast in Man Emile Zola (Author) Leonard Tancock (Translated by) Series:
Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Apr 1977
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h199mm x w130mm x s16mm 54g ISBN13: 9780140443271 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044327-1 ISBN10: 0140443274 x Description: La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Debacle Emile Zola (Author) Leonard Tancock (Introduction by) Leonard Tancock (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Nov 1972
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 351g ISBN13: 9780140442809 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044280-9 ISBN10: 0140442804 EAN: 9780140442809 x Description: Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Fantastic Night & other stories Stefan Zweig (Author) (Author) Anthea Bell (Translator (GER)) (Translated by) Cedar Paul (Translator) (Translated by) Eden Paul (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pushkin Press
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 168pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781901285543 ISBN13: 978-1-901285-54-3 ISBN10: 1901285545 EAN: 9781901285543 This Product Replaces: 9781901285000 This Product is Replaced By: 9781906548223 x Description: Five of Stefan Zweig's most compelling novellas are presented together in this powerful volume. Fantastic Night is the story of one transforming evening in the life of a rich and bored young man. He spends a day at the races and an evening in the seedy but thrilling company of the dregs of society. His experiences jolt him out of his languor and give him a newfound relish for life, which is then cut short by the Great War. Fantastic Night is joined by The Invisible Collection and Buchmendel, two of Zweig's most powerful works, which explore lives led in the single minded pursuit of art and literature against a backdrop of poverty and corruption. And finally, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Zweig's poignant and heartbreaking tale of the strength and madness of unrequited love and The Fowler Snared, in which it is the man whose passion remains unrequited, complete the collection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chess: A Novel Stefan Zweig (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 80pp h181mm x w113mm x s6mm 61g ISBN13: 9780141023373 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102337-3 ISBN10: 0141023376 x Description: On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. There are perfect moves and brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Key Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 160pp 89g ISBN13: 9780099466871 ISBN13: 978-0-09-946687-1 ISBN10: 0099466872 EAN: 9780099466871 x Description: 'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to mention even here. I have always avoided commenting on my sexual relations with Ikuko, for fear that she might surreptitiously read my diary and be offended...' So begins The Key - a forthright and moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires...until the day Ikuko discovers the key to her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. The key, she realises, to his very soul... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hotel Honolulu (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h180mm x w110mm 250g ISBN13: 9780141008738 ISBN13: 978-0-14-100873-8 ISBN10: 0141008733 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (Om) Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 May 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141017570 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101757-0 ISBN10: 0141017570 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Modern Library Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h204mm x w134mm x s12mm 148g ISBN13: 9780812975048 ISBN13: 978-0-8129-7504-8 ISBN10: 0812975049 x
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War And Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Signet Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 1456pp h172mm x w105mm ISBN13: 9780451530547 ISBN13: 978-0-451-53054-7 ISBN10: 0451530543 EAN: 9780451530547 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) R. Edmonds (Introduction by) R. Edmonds (Translated by) Series:
Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 May 1982
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 1472pp h201mm x w129mm x s61mm 930g ISBN13: 9780140444179 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044417-9 ISBN10: 0140444173 x Description: Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which holds the mirror up to nature as truly as those of Shakespeare or Homer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War And Peace Leo Tolstoy (Author) Orlando Figes (Afterword by) Anthony Briggs (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 1440pp h198mm x w129mm x s61mm 969g ISBN13: 9780140447934 ISBN13: 978-0-14-044793-4 ISBN10: 0140447938 EAN: 9780140447934 x Description: 'A book that you don't just read, you live' Simon SchamaTolstoy's magnificent epic begins at a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself, in a novel of conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate, and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Briggs with an Afterword by Orlando Figes _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Remainder Alia Trabucco Zeran (Author) Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Series:
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And Other Stories
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508328 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-32-8 ISBN10: 1911508326 x Description: Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Yasutaka Tsutsui (Author) David Karashima (Translated by) Series:
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Alma Books Ltd
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp h198mm x w128mm 172g ISBN13: 9781846881343 ISBN13: 978-1-84688-134-3 ISBN10: 184688134X EAN: 9781846881343 x Description: One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteenyear- old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Faust Ivan Turgenev (Author) Hugh Aplin (Translated by) Simon Callow (Foreword by) Series:
Hesperus Classics
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Publisher:
Hesperus Press Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h195mm x w125mm x s10mm 143g ISBN13: 9781843910435 ISBN13: 978-1-84391-043-5 ISBN10: 1843910438 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bilbao - New York - Bilbao Kirmin Uribe (Author) Elizabeth Macklin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
UK ed.
Imprint:
Seren
Publisher:
Poetry Wales Press
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Out of stock indefinitely
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning h208mm x w135mm 0 ISBN13: 9781781722053 ISBN13: 978-1-78172-205-3 ISBN10: 1781722056 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Men in Green Faces Gene Wentz (Author) B.Abell Jurus (Author) B. Abell (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 304pp h172mm x w105mm 166g ISBN13: 9780312950521 ISBN13: 978-0-312-95052-1 ISBN10: 0312950527 x Description: Gene Michaels carries an M-60, eight hundred rounds, and a bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they will take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America's most feared warriors as you have never seen them before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The Wednesday Club Kjell Westo (Author) Series:
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MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h216mm x w134mm x s30mm 340g ISBN13: 9780857053510 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-351-0 ISBN10: 0857053515 EAN: 9780857053510 x Description: 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group.Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when she experienced horrors she has been trying to forget ever since. And one evening, with the Wednesday Club gathered in Thune's office, she hears a voice she hoped she would never hear again.She is suddenly plunged back into the past. But this time she is no longer a helpless victim . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eliska "Von Mechtingen" (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Silver Moon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Fiction4all
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1998
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h180mm ISBN13: 9781897809464 ISBN13: 978-1-897809-46-4 ISBN10: 1897809468 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fifth Dimension Martin Vopenka (Author) Hana Sklenkova (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Barbican Press
Publisher:
Barbican Press
Pub Date:
09 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781909954083 ISBN13: 978-1-909954-08-3 ISBN10: 190995408X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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From Enemy Territory: Pale Diary Mladen Vuksanovic (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Saqi Books
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub Date:
21 Oct 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 172pp h210mm x w135mm 190g 1 map ISBN13: 9780863567261 ISBN13: 978-0-86356-726-1 ISBN10: 0863567266 x Description: Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary, penned by the award-winning journalist Vuksanovic, records the extraordinary unfolding of events. The author lived in the ski resort of Pale, 15km above Sarajevo. In April 1992, when Radovan Karadzic launches his savage assault on the city. Vuksanoviae - refusing to collaborate - becomes a prisoner in his own home, cut off from his children and friends below. He expressed his terror and disgust within these pages. During that time, he describes in chilling detail not only the horrifying war - with the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the mental strain of war on the individual. He and his wife finally managed to escape in a UN refugee bus via Hungary to Croatia, smuggling with them these notes from enemy territory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When Red is Black Qiu Xiaolong (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export ed
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2006
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 320pp h19mm x w111mm x s176mm 170g n/a ISBN13: 9780340897577 ISBN13: 978-0-340-89757-7 ISBN10: 0340897570 x Description: When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then a murder is reported: Chen is loath to shorten his working holiday, so Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, a middle-aged teacher, has been found dead in her tiny room in a converted multi-family house. Only a neighbour could have committed the crime, but there is no motive. It is only when Chen returns and starts to investigate the past that he finds answers. But by then he has troubles of his own. This is the third critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery set in post-Cultural Revolution China. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strangers Taichi Yamada (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h216mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9780571224364 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22436-4 ISBN10: 0571224369 EAN: 9780571224364 x Description: Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada is forced to set up home in his office, situated in a high-rise apartment block overlooking Tokyo's busy Route 8. One night, nostalgic for his lost childhood, he decides to visit the entertainment district of Asakusa, the city's dilapidated old downtown area, and there, at the theatre, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. So begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died so many years before. Although they may be apparitions, he takes solace in seeing them, in spite of the damage it seems to do to his health. Can Kei, the mysteriously fragile neighbour with whom Harada begins a tentative relationship, save him from the ghosts of his past?
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness Geling Yan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 288pp h176mm x w110mm x s20mm 160g ISBN13: 9780571214624 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21462-4 ISBN10: 0571214622 This Product is Replaced By: 9780571253562 x Description: From one of China's most acclaimed writers, this is an erotic and exciting tale of forbidden love. Geling Yan traces the lives of two individuals separated by prejudice and mistrust, but bound forever by their passion for one another. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris' wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp, who bestrides Chinatown with a clutch of daggers at his waist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Liberated Bride A. B. Yehoshua (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Nov 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h139mm x w215mm x s43mm 618g ISBN13: 9781870015868 ISBN13: 978-1-870015-86-8 ISBN10: 187001586X EAN: 9781870015868 x Description: Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions, the first and most ambitious, is to understand the Arab mind - no mean feat in itself though perhaps made easier by the fact that he lives and works with Israeli Arabs. The second - and more personal, though equally hard to grasp - is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary - and at times highly entertaining - encounters with very disparate people, where the personal becomes intertwined with the political, as he searches out the truth both in politics and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
K: The Art of Love Hong Ying (Author) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp 205g ISBN13: 9780552772013 ISBN13: 978-0-552-77201-3 ISBN10: 0552772011 x Description: Based on a true story, K tells the story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell (son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf) the darling of the Bloomsbury set and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng, set against the vivid backdrop of decadent 1930s Peking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Lizard Banana Yoshimoto (Author) Ann Sherif (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2001
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp ISBN13: 9780571212156 ISBN13: 978-0-571-21215-6 ISBN10: 0571212158 EAN: 9780571212156 x Description: In these six stories Yoshimoto masterfully explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. Her characters find themselves caught in emotional webs that they often fail to understand, but they discover themselves and reinvent themselves through the power of the stories they tell. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________