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  • The Disguise

    Poems 1977-2001

    by Charles Boyle ...
    The acclaimed poet Christopher Reid distils Charles Boyle's six books of poems into The Disguise: Poems 1977-2001, recovering a notable one-time poet, now known as a publisher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, from poetic neglect. Charles Boyle established a reputation as a sharp, wry, disabused observer of social mores. Paleface, published by Faber, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and ... Read more

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  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

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  • The Manet Girl

    by Charles Boyle ...
    The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations – from both male and female points of view – in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of several decades. Stories of desire and confusion – other men and other women – sit alongside stories of art – galleries, studios, allusions to painters – which gets in the way as least as often as it illuminates. Choices are made, in the knowledge ... Read more

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  • The Best British Short Stories 2014

    by Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest 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 ... Read more

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  • Town and Country

    New Irish Short Stories

    by Kevin Barry ...
    Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack.Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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  • Orphan Train

    A Novel

    by Christina Baker Kline ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Reader on the 6.27

    A Heartwarming and Uplifting Love Story that Celebrates the Power of Reading

    by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Vanished Years

    by Rupert Everett ...
    Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of course - one of a kind.Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir is filled with stories, from childhood to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

    by Barney Norris ...
    A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent' - Evening Standard'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of t... ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • House of Fear

    by Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Pinborough, Christopher Priest ...
    The tread on the landing outside the door, when you know you are the only one in the house. The wind whistling through the eves, carrying the voices of the dead. The figure glimpsed briefly through the cracked window of a derelict house.Editor Jonathan Oliver brings horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre, including Joe R. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Reader, I Married Him

    Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre

    by Tracy Chevalier ...
    This collection of original stories by todays finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontës most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literatures best-known lines: Reader ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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