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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 'Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable. I loved it' NATHAN FILER, The Shock of the Fall 'A striking and highly enjoyable debut' SOPHIE HANNAH Yasmin would give anything to have a friend . . . And do anything to keep one. The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brown straggly dog, but then you looked up, your mouth going slack as...
| Автор | Tasha Kavanagh |
It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's...
| Автор | Gillian Slovo |
The Graybar Hotel offers a glimpse into the reality of prison life through the eyes of the people who spend their days and years behind bars. A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected. In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis Dawkins, who is...
| Автор | Curtis Dawkins |
Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in...
| Автор | Will Eaves |
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle . . . ...
| Автор | Dino Buzzati |
Viimase suure sõja päevil alustavad oma teekonda läände, igaüks ise ajal ja erinevatel põhjustel, kolm eestlast – kodumaad kaitsta ihkav nooruk, põgenemisteekonda pildistav eraklik fotograaf ja kahe lapsega sõja jalust põgenev ema. Sõjakeerises põimuvad nende saatused vahetevahel, et varsti taas lahkneda. Koju tagasi jõuab siiski vaid üks. Kelle vastu neist oli saatus kõige armulisem?
| Автор | Rein Põder |
"Lühiromaan «Silm» koondab endas Kaplinski parimad looja-omadused, intensiivsesisevaatluse, teo- ja filosoofilise diskursuse ning allegooria. Lugu kõikejälgivast ja erinevateskehastustes korduvast «silmast» on lisaks viimaste aegade parimale filosoofilise proosanäitele ka õpetlik jutt kõigile neile, kes arvavad end võimelised elama absoluutselt vabana."(Rein Veidemann, Eesti Päevaleht 10.03.00).
| Автор | Jaan Kaplinski |
Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . . Above the Waterfall is the story of Sheriff Les Clary. A man on the verge of retirement, he is plunged into deep and dangerous waters by one final case. A case that will draw him to the lyrical beauty of his surroundings and, in doing so, force him to come to terms with his own past. Echoing the...
| Автор | Ron Rash |
ENHANCED ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MATT HAIG'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover – working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach...
| Автор | Matt Haig |
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor,...
| Автор | Katie Hale |
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent 'A brilliantly psychological fugue' Observer The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961. Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a...
| Автор | Muriel Spark |
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and...
| Автор | John Fante |
Romaan üliõpilasarmastusest, noorest abielust, selle karidest, ühtaegu noore ebakindla mehe meelelistest otsingutest leidmaks iseennast, fooniks seitsmekümnendad oma kentsaka tegelikkuse ja sundkäikudega.
| Автор | Mati Soonik |
Sellesamusesse raamatusse on koondatud osa Shakespeare'i lugudest, mis Edith Nesbit laste jaoks ümber jutustas: Romeo ja Julia, Suveöö unenägu, Veneetsia kaupmees, Kuningas Lear, Tõrksa taltsutus, Macbeth, Palju kära ei millestki, Othello, Nagu teile meeldib, Hamlet
| Автор | Эдит Несбит |
In this new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the historical and the imaginary, the personal and the political, to invent complex, charged stories about love, death and struggle. With a cast of real and fictional characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Wideman’s own family, it is a journey through the soul of America. In ‘JB & FD’ Wideman imagines conversations between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and abolitionist Frederick...
| Автор | John Edgar Wideman |
Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum...
| Автор | George Friel |
Tunes of Glory Household Ghosts Silence This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty. Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and conflicts in the officers' mess of a Highland regiment lead to shame and tragedy. ...
| Автор | James Kennaway |
Set in the village of Mandragora in an unnamed country, The Testament of Yves Gundron opens with a description of a harsh, rural existence of and daily toil in a pre-industrial medieval community. Then Yves Gundron, yeoman farmer, invents the harness and life in Mandragora begins irreversibly to change. All is not as it seems, however, and when anthropologist Ruth Blum appears in the village – native of Boston and the late twentieth century – what had seemed to be a simple historical document...
| Автор | Emily Barton |
Daisy oli alati tahtnud olla originaalne, ekstravagantne, «metsik», nagu ta enda kohta ütles. Ta oli tahtnud elada eksootilistes kohtades, armastada ebatavalist meest. Kõike seda oli ta elus olnud ja kõik see oli kaasa toonud pettumust ja valu. Siis aga kohtas ta Teague`i, põhimõttekindlat ja tõsist meest…
| Автор | Janelle Gordon |
Romaanis peategelane on vägagi salapärane nooruk kes idealistliku heategijana ei tunnista kurjust, siis aga…Romaan on kirjutatud 1971/1972 kuid jäi oma viidete tõttu Jeesuse elule ning totalitaarsele riigikorrale ilmumata.Eesmatrükk 1987.
| Автор | Enn Vetemaa |
Tagasihoidlikku töösipelgat Addy Taylorit ei saa kuidagi varakaks tütarlapseks pidada. Lumena kaelasadanud varandus ei tee teda sugugi õnnelikumaks, pigem kutsub see esile sekeldusi. Kõigele lisaks tuleb tal tegemist teha täiesti kobeda advokaadiga.
| Автор | Amanda Goldridge |