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Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language won her readers' hearts and secured her place as one of America's most accomplished short-story writers. Her stories are united by her signature interweaving of personal and political truths, her extraordinary capacity for empathy and her ...

For years, best friends Sarah and Jennifer kept what they called the “Never List”: a list of actions to be avoided, for safety’s sake, at all costs. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held ...

Housed in an attractive slipcase, this inexpensive collection of American classics presents five perennial bestsellers from the Dover Thrift Editions series: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, ...

In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown­—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they’re living ...

It's the early 1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. As a refugee, he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. ...

Alex Capus's novels have been runaway best-sellers in Germany, and his novel Leon and Louise received widespread critical acclaim on its English publication in 2012. A Price to Pay, the fourth of Capus's novels to be published in English, tells the interwoven stories of three disparate figures from interwar ...

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns--in part--a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping ...

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns--in part--a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping ...

Rinka Kazuki sings enka, traditional Japanese ballads, in sleazy dives where she makes most of her money from tips. Sometimes a big spender will slip her a 10,000-yen note, but often it will be only a hundred-yen coin - worth pennies. On the wrong side of thirty, with a treacherous agent, unscrupulous ...

A series of charming stories full of heart-warming characters who use the church hall

Rare jewels of Victorian fiction highlight the fantastic contributions made by women writers in the early development of science fiction A selection of early science fiction short stories by women are collected here, along with an introduction exploring the contributions women made in the early development ...

This is the comical story of Frank Dickin, an impoverished young novelist and his involvement, on the one hand with an eccentic family of Russian emigres, and on the other with an all powerful newspaper magnate.

Captain Quigley, Bella's fixer, and his shady assistant, Murch, who can always crack a bone or two when someone needs persuading.Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend Kennett is smitten by the heiress Miss Mary Skillane.

A brilliantly funny novel about masculinity, identity, sockpuppets and steroids, for fans of The Talented Mr Ripley, David Szalay and Peep Show

The dying years of the great depression; John Bischoffberger is a Pennsylvanian doctor adrift in Naples, Maine, struggling with his loss of religious faith and retreating from painful memories of The Great War.

The seven magnificent stories in Meetings with the Angel, by seven Israeli writers, were all written in the last ten years. The title under which Benjamin Tammuz has collected them was chosen because each of them reflects in some form the Israeli's confrontation with his identity; yet they are so different ...

Uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman on the journey of a lifetime---through the history of Britain's WWII spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris---in an effort to understand her past, save her family, and shape her future.

'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian
'A book to be savoured.' Observer
'Intimate, funny . . . But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point .

The debut novel - a time-travelling story of love and adventure - from the number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy and star of Peep Show