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  • We Live Here Now

    by C.D. Rose ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA wickedly smart, Borgesian novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a ... Read more

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  • Arkady Who Couldn't See And Artem Who Couldn't Hear

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  • Best British Short Stories 2018

    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

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  • Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

    by C. D. Rose ...
    **“A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” — Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form …Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 ... Read more

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  • The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

    by C. D. Rose ...
    A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canonA signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject.Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated ... Read more

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  • The Blind Accordionist

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    A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly."In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character "C.D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European ... Read more

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  • Best British Short Stories 2025

    Series Book 15 - Best British Short Stories
    The definitive showcase of the year's finest British short stories'Bravo to Salt's beacon of delight and intrigue – its annual collection of the UK's best short stories, from established and emerging voices.' —Duncan MinshullNow relaunched for a new era, Best British Short Stories returns with a bold new look and a renewed commitment to celebrating the art of the short story. As we enter our ... Read more

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  • The Book of Birmingham

    A City In Short Fiction

    Series series Reading the City
    Few cities have undergone such a radical transformation over the last few decades as Birmingham. Culturally and architecturally, it has been in a state of perpetual flux and regeneration, with new communities moving in, then out, and iconic post-war landmarks making way for brighter-coloured, 21st century flourishes. Much like the city itself, the characters in the stories gathered here are often ... Read more

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  • Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else

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    Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

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    4 hours 57 min

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