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A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realismA Penguin ClassicIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair, ... Read more

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A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realismA Penguin ClassicIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair,
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**Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation PrizeAn eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin Classic**In these seven stories of People from ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation PrizeAn eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin Classic**In these seven stories of People from
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**Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation PrizeAn eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin Classic**In these seven stories of People from ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation PrizeAn eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin Classic**In these seven stories of People from
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A new English translation of an existential tale of obsession by Indonesia’s celebrated writer of absurdist realismA Penguin ClassicIn Bloomington, Indiana, Fanton Drummond’s life changes when he encounters Olenka Danton in an elevator. Infatuated at first sight, Fanton begins to see Olenka everywhere, from bus stops and parks to the imagined settings of his mind’s eye. Soon they begin an affair, ... Read more

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Written especially for WBD 2016, this is a fabulously entertaining and touching novella from David Baddiel, author of the bestselling THE PARENT AGENCY and THE PERSON CONTROLLER.Illustrated by the hugely talented Jim Field, winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.Alfie has a routine. To be honest he has a lot of routines.But then one day Alfie’s babysitter is unavailable, and Alfie’s parents get Mrs ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty.To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman
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Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for w...
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A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival**—with a new introduction by James Wood.**Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless, populist charlatan, rise to literary superstardom. Barry is adored by readers, celebrated by critics, ... Read more

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Brilliantly observed as always, family, teachers, pupils and the dreaded school inspector all leap to life in this wonderfully warm and witty, brand new, poetry collection from bestseller Gervase Phinn.New kids, disobedient deputy heads, school reports and fireworks, daydreamers and embarrassing mums all make an appearance. And if read on you might even just discover the whereabouts of Colin's ... Read more

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