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A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray
Delacorte Press |
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| A delicious, elegant gothic.
Publishers Weekly
Shivery with both passion and terror.
Kirkus Reviews
After her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, 16-year-old Gemma leaves her home in India and relocates to a boarding school in ... [ още ] |
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Кърт Вонегът
Vintage |
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| For this unusual collection, Kurt Vonnegut has selected 24 of his favourite stories never published before in book form. Included are Any Reasonable Offer , The Powder Blue Dragon , Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp and Lovers Anonymous. ... [ още ] |
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Celestial Navigation
Ан Тейлър
Vintage |
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| Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who has never left home. He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her ramshackle ... [ още ] |
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The Last Temptation
Никос Казандзакис
Faber |
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| Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original. ... [ още ] |
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The Fratricides
Никос Казандзакис
Faber |
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| 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 ... [ още ] |
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Report to Greco
Никос Казандзакис
Faber |
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| This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, ... [ още ] |
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Christ Recrucified
Никос Казандзакис
Faber |
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| The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and ... [ още ] |
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Ecstasy
Ървин Уелш
Vintage |
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| "Urgent, violent, bleakly funny prose",
Nick Hornby
Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, ... [ още ] |
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Porno
Ървин Уелш
Vintage |
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| Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him ... [ още ] |
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The Acid House
Ървин Уелш
Vintage |
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| The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects ... [ още ] |
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