... - 2006) wrote poetry, stories, and biographies as well as a remarkable series of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , The Mandelbaum Gate , which received the James Tait Black Prize, and The Public Image and ...
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... influencer and just hooked up with her hometown's NBA star. She has everything she wants in life and expects to live happily ever after, until a medical scare threatens to end it all. Mikayla King has murdered her ...
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... . Faced with a growing disruption to his isolated life, the narrator discovers within himself a surprising need ... welcome them as neighbors. The City Where We Once Lived is a haunting novel of the near future that combines ...
... to forget: she remembers him. Now, in a battle between the past and the future, choosing between having a life and making a living, finding her feet or spreading her wings, Jessica must ask herself: who is she really ...
... adolescents. And when she sees a shocking image of herself on video, are her worst fears confirmed? Our Life in the Forest , written in her inimitable concise, vivid prose recalls Darrieusecq's brilliant debut, Pig Tales ...
... Keyon and Casimere on this bumpy ride and find out what it's really like with a bad boy in your life. Keyon and Casimere must both come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Will she forgive him, or will this ...
... Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.' He died in 1991. ... Textbook Finder Queensland University of Technology KWB214 The Artful Life: from Memoir to Fiction
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Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the ...
... absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is ... then in the squalid chaos of Vegas, where he lives for a brief moment with his hopeless gambler father ...
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... again, to put that life behind them, raise their children, and spend the rest of their lives loving one another in peace ... do. When her cousin, Sapphire Langston, goes missing, Rain uses the disappearance as an excuse to ...
... shock of their father's death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. ... into Noah's apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her. Retracing their father's steps in ...
... fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland, and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike ... , and the James Bond novel Devil May Care. He lives in London with his wife and three children. Author: ...
... to get people talking” ( Vanity Fair ), Bed-Stuy Is Burning offers a window into an array of complex lives and deftly wrestles with the most pressing issues of our time. About the Author Brian Platzer has an MFA from ...
... has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna′s sister, a remote and enigmatic character ...
... tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out ... Author Rachel Cusk is the author of the memoirs A Life's Work, The Last Supper , and Aftermath , and ...
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... they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their lives, how the death of Doyle's wife Bernadette has affected the family, and an anonymous figure who is always ...
... Clift not only lead to further travel and their experience of expatriate life in England and in Greece, but also to much romanticising of their lives together. In many respects this has distracted attention from their ...
... love, language, conspiracy, auditory time travel, and life after death. Cinematic, with a vast cast of ... historical scope that spans World War II Poland, the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970s, and ...
... traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life on the ... powerful stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves. Fuelled ...
... court; Lillie the hooker; Gloria, her neighbour, whose life will collide with hers. Set against a time of ... intricately bind these apparent strangers, transforming their lives forever. With prose that is at once immediate ...
... everything we ought to ask of a great novel: that it respond to the fullness of our lives, be as large as life itself" Guardian, Book of the Week Author: Colm Tóibín. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary ...
... as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert ... Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old ...
... of the best in all of us - our capacity to live in the face of ordinary sorrows, and to draw strength from ... had her mother had the capacity to take the end of her life into her own hands. But no matter whether the story is ...
... parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of ...
... of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. A masterpiece.'One of the great writers of ... has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Author: Paul Auster. ...
... introduce it to more readers. This novel is not to be missed and its young author, Sally Rooney is a rapidly rising ... something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like ...
... a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families ...
... them apart. For Dylan and his mother, Willa, life moves at a charmingly slow pace. They flit between ... dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn. Author: Maria Dahvana Headley. Format: Paperback ...
In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Park Minwoo is, by ... a poet and translator, originally from California and now living in Seoul, South Korea. She teaches at Ewha ...
... . In May We Be Forgiven , Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of characters experience adultery ...
... to reconcile his past crimes with his present mistakes. Life without Jean will take some getting used to, but ... Taylor Johnson was born in the United States and has lived in Australia since 1999. Jean Harley Was Here is her ...
... small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. A Boy in Winter tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. And in the midst of it all is the determined boy Yankel who will throw his ...
... brings home a six-figure salary that keeps them living comfortably. To top it all off, she trusts ... just how wrong she is about that. Rene discovers that her life isn't so perfect after all. Her husband and best friend ...
... . To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most ... parents, who desperately want Maddy to tell them about the life their son led after he left home. And in a ...
... . beautifully observed' - Daily Mail Mona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on ... loss. With sharply observed insight into contemporary urban life, and characters we take to our hearts, Gemma ...
... molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno ... and visceral. About the Author Michel Houellebecq lives in County Cork, Ireland. He is the ...
... the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of ...
... needs a job, but what Jerra is searching for is more elusive. Only the sea, and perhaps the old man who lives in a shack beside it, can help. An Open Swimmer is a remarkable first novel by one of Australia's most loved ...
... will cross with his new friends - and the deaths they are responsible for - will change all of their lives forever. The Secret History recounts the terrible price we pay for mistakes made on the dark journey to adulthood ...
... post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma.Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent suicide of her daughter, Keiko. A ...
... violent revolution. About the Author Isabel Allende was born in 1942 Lima, Peru. She grew up in Chile and now lives in California. She is the author of novels The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows,Eva Luna, The ...
... of innocence, eccentricity, familial ties and friendships, love and life. Stripped down to its bare bones, it's about ... God Was a Rabbit is her first novel. She lives in London. Author: Sarah Winman. Format: Paperback ...
... one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private ... Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the ...
... had' Oprah Winfrey A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie ...
... marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after. However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one ...
... the fortune-teller gave them that day. This is a story about life, mortality and the choices we make: is it better to live a long and cautious life, or to burn brightly, but for the shortest time? About the Author ...
... out how to survive and surviving what you find. In a small country town, an act of revenge causes five lives to collide. Early one Christmas morning, Graeme Sweetapple, a man down on his luck, is heading home with a ...
... events that will haunt a family for generations. Hidden in the refuge of a secret valley, their tiny community lives unknown to the world. When, a century later, Broome schoolboy Dancer falls foul of the local bikie gang ...
... woman in late 19th century Italy. Born in Alessandria in 1876, Aleramo lived a tormented life and - according to her biographers - she argued she lived three lives. The first, as a mother and wife, which she explored in ...
He lived his life like clockwork. Until he met the watchmaker. From the publishers of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , The Song of Achilles , The Bone Season and Harry Potter comes a ravishing new literary historical ...
... of the master's night-time visits. Her displacement carries into the lives of her seven children - their stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia ...
... and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Author: Tim Winton. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Literature, Poetry & Plays History & ...
... fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now lives as a recluse ... About the Author Born in Melbourne Mark O'Flynn now lives in the Blue Mountains. After studying at the Victorian College ...
... . Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth's been receiving strange postcards. And Alice ... to relying on others - but when the three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide, there's only one thing for it: they ...
... father. Three brothers, Joe, Miles and Harry, are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brother' lives are shaped by their father's moods - like the ocean he fishes, his is wild and unpredictable. He is a ...
... hers because he held an important role in her life that should have prevented them from coming together as ... as their twenty-one-year age difference. Tragedy took the lives of those who would stand in their way, and Meagan ...
... . glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. 'Non-racers,' he writes. 'The emptiness of those lives shocks me.' Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the ...
... McPhail's hut will change the course of their lives forever. About the Author Kate Mildenhall is a writer ... debut, Victorian writer Mildenhall has turned to a real life story of two friends who grow up on an isolated ...
... Canterbury has seen this crime not once, but several times before. And when Ed and her detectives encounter missing historic police files, falsified school records, and Ed's new lover as a prime suspect, it becomes clear ...
... collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times" Author: Rohinton Mistry. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary ...
... during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944 ...
... novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington. %%%A new look for cult author Stephenson's unstoppable sci-fi classic The future is ...
... Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the run-down Indiana town of Vacca Vale, these individual lives unfold. But Blandine is different. Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, she shares an apartment with three ...
... and Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come . . . Alan Hollinghurst’s ... pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this ...
... Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along ... Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. ...
... the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and ...
... Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying ... explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life; as the novel moves to its gripping climax, ...
... Productions, Inc. Originally from Staten Island, he now lives in Manhattan. Awakened is his first novel. About the ... First Activation, Fast Forward, and Sixth Cycle. He lives in Manchester, England. Author: James S. Murray. ...
... critics on its first publication this collection of some of Fred Urquhart's most subtle and skilful stories depicts the lives of a variety of Scottish characters, at home and abroad. He deals with social class and inter ...
... but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake . He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness ...
... In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of ... almost nothing of these women; the part of their lives which they conceded to me was narrowly confined between two ...
... , a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse ... faint electrical crackle is perceptible, a hint of life flickers across the TV screen, though the television ...
... stalking the family as he had done for most of our lives, skulking from room to room, accompanied by a menacing silence ... is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb ...
... Sharon and Mel are an award-winning animation duo, living and working in Brooklyn, and poised on the edge ... dazzling story of female friendship, the cost of a creative life, and the secrets that can undo us. Review by ...
... ' The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is ... journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one ...
... divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life. Told with humour and a ... Griffith University, graduating in 1990. She lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. Author ...
... out the door blazing hot! Get ready for the ride of your life. Two is company, but three is definitely a crowd, especially ... to bring the heat that you've been missing. As an Essence magazine bestselling author, her debut ...
... high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps ... and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith lives in London and New York with her husband and two ...
... , E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex ...