The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
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Category: Fiction
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable Angela Pralini. As he has created Ange ...Show more
Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne
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Category: Fiction
"They tried Mansfield but it was freezing and snowed and people like them don't fit in because they don't look prosperous. One time near Yellingbo they found a church no one prayed in and they lived there and for three weeks had stained glass for windows...They got chased out and went to Shepparton but ...Show more
Book from the Ground: From Point to Point by Bing Xu
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Category: Fiction
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read.--Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel -- one composed ...Show more
Meatloaf in Manhattan by Robert Power
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Category: Fiction
'As deviously weighty as a good pop song.' - Anson Cameron, author of Stealing Picasso, Nice Shootin', Cowboy and Silences Long Gone. In these sixteen tales, Robert Power captures the joys and frailties of seemingly ordinary lives with extraordinary perception and wit. The stories take us from a Manhatt ...Show more
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
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Category: Fiction
The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious 'accident' in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by thi ...Show more
The Crash of Hennington by Patrick Ness
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Category: Fiction
Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel 'More Than This'. Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, 'A Monster Calls' and and new n ...Show more
In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
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Category: Fiction
"IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING "made me laugh out loud, and it also left me deeply moved."--John Burnham Schwartz, author of "Reservation Road" and "Northwest Corner" Isidore is a brilliant man, driven in equal measure by grief at his young mother's death, rage at his distant, abusive father, and his own fi ...Show more
Wide Open - DUBLIN IMPAC WINNER 2000 by Nicola Barker
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Category: Fiction
WIDE OPEN is set on the strange Isle Of Sheppey, which pokes out into into the estuary of the River Thames. On this forgotten misty island there is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bare, but the characters are brimming with life. There's Luke, who sp ...Show more
The Three Button Trick and Other Stories by Nicola Barker
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Category: Fiction
Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author whose work brings to mind Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Maragaret Atwood. Now nineteen of her finest short stories have been complied into one brilliant, del ...Show more