... a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a charming, warm and funny novel, beautifully woven with ...
... the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. About The ... of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch ( ...
... her cafe and customers safe YAZMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on ... story of her life and HALAJAN, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all ...
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... respect and care for others is greater. However, as a woman, she is bound and gagged by the world she has been ... writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impress (1813), ...
... 's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin ...
... . Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared ...
... Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of ...
... selection There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from ...
... , a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended' On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of ...
... short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are Fahrenheit 451 , The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles . Author ...
... in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was initially rejected by the publisher she submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much ...
... is often an illusion. Jane is a single mum with a mysterious past who carries a sadness beyond her years. These three women, all with children starting at the same school, are about to tell the little lies that can turn ...
... 've read in a long time. One man's walk along the length of England to save the life of a dying woman . . . Philosophical, intriguing, and profoundly moving' RICHARD MADELEY ' Full of heart, laced through with wry wit. I ...
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... ___________ Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But ...
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... he falls for the daughter, Christine, a beautiful young woman who sees no harm in a liaison with a native. ... is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his new friends. ...
... who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes ...
... his ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, ... 1844 he entered the University of Kazan, remaining there only three years. At the age of 23, Tolstoy joined the Russian Army ...
... , a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Brilliant ... at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose ...
... YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016 Longlisted for the ... Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage ...
... of the past, to Hana, an Ethiopian woman determined to reinvent herself in Australia. Award-winning ... awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ...
... Novel Award Winner of Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same ...
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... . A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and ...
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... party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host ... , whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, is ...
... loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on ... And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. For Falk and his childhood friend ...
Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six ...
... a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads. Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real ...
... than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping ...
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... the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian ...
... of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ...
... go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. About the Author David Nicholls trained as an actor before ...
... of dystopian fiction. 'A fantastic, chilling story. And so powerfully feminist' Bernadine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'This novel seems ever more vital in the present day' Observer READ THE TESTAMENTS , THE ...
WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA NOVEL AWARD- the acclaimed number one bestselling novel about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz. The ...
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it ...
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Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they ...
... is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl, so different from them, under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Immerse yourself in a world dictated by the demands of survival in ...
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... Prize. His previous novel, Black Swan Green , was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Author: David Mitchell. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Booktopia Gift Guide Fiction ...
Winner of the Man Booker prize 2008 Winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards 'Author of The Year' 2009 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an ...
The Runaway Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller and Thriller of the Year Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even ...
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... writer' Courier-Mail About the Author Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March, Year of Wonders, and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was ...
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 A blistering satirical novel about marriage, divorce and modern love, by one of the most exciting new voices in american fiction Finally free from his nightmare marriage, ...
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... the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As ...
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... release he adopted more conservative and traditional values and rejected his previous socialist position. In the following years he spent a lot of time abroad, struggled with an addiction to gambling and fell deeply in ...
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... them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and ...
... has received many honours, including the Franz Kafka Prize. His most recent novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage , sold one million copies in its first week of publication in Japan. Author: Haruki ...
... was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature ...
A story of love, friendship and memory. In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary ...
... regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Author: Vasily Grossman. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Action & Adventure War, Combat & ...
... hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but ...
... which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in ...
Grounded in recent research on the challenges of working with two-year-olds, Places for Two-year-olds in the Early Years explores how this often overlooked age group is presented in policy and practice, and discusses why ...
Grounded in recent research on the challenges of working with two-year-olds, Places for Two-year-olds in the Early Years explores how this often overlooked age group is presented in policy and practice, and discusses why ...
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... symbols of conservationism, demonstrating the urgent need to preserve the natural world. 60 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year positions wildlife photography as an important part of art history, and provides the ...
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