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The Red Book of Farewells
Pirkko Saisio (Author) Pirkko Saisio (born 1949) is one of Finland’s most celebrated writers as well as an actor and theatre director. The author of numerous novels, plays and scripts for film and television, Saisio has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize seven times, winning it in 2003. She has, among other awards, received the Aleksis Kivi Prize and the State Literature Award. Lowest Common Denominator is the first volume in her Helsinki trilogy, followed by Backlight and The Red Book of Farewells.Mia Spangenberg (Translator) Mia Spangenberg translates from Finnish, Swedish and German. She is the winner of the Nadia Christensen Prize for her translation of Lowest Common Denominator.
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Shy
The inspiration for the major film 'Steve'The number one Sunday Times bestseller Shy, from the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.
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Hot Milk
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming HomeTwo women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez - a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years.Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless.
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Mayflies
Andrew O'Hagan is one of his generation's most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times and was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
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Boyhood Island
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel'Times Literary Supplement
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Girl, 1983
Over seven taut, sharp but elusive novels, the Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann has sought to refine experience into stories that carve order, even beauty, from a shadowed past . . . Girl, 1983 nods to Annie Ernaux, Marguerite Duras and other kindred literary spirits - but her method and manner has a tact and finesse all its own . . . If her fictions transcend the raw stuff of autobiography, they never deny the soil from which they spring . . . Ullmann crafts her words with unflagging care
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Summer
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.
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The Flamethrowers
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONReno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed.A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left and drawn into a spiral of violence and betrayal.The Flamethrowers is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.Best Books of the Year: * Guardian * New York Times * The Times * Observer * Financial Times * New Yorker * Telegraph * Slate * Oprah * Vogue * Time * Scotsman * Evening Standard * Shortlisted for the National Book Awards 2013
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Black Swan Green
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
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Exhibition
Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London
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Gliff
Der neue Roman der preisgekrönten britischen Kultautorin: Zwei junge Menschen in einem feindlich gesinnten Staat, in dem die Vergangenheit entgleitet und jeder Widerstand unmöglich scheint.'Was Gliff bedeutet: Ein kurzer Augenblick. Eine leise Ähnlichkeit. Eine unverhoffte oder zufällige Aussicht. Ein flüchtiger Blick. Ein unvermittelter Schauder. Ein Wink. Etwas Schlaf. Ein Anflug von Krankheit, leichtes Angeschlagensein. Ein Hauch. Ein Schrecken. Ein Schock. Ein Beben. Ein Wimpernschlag.' Es war einmal, in nicht allzu weiter Zukunft: Zwei Geschwister, Bri und Rose, müssen sich von ihrer Mutter trennen, weil diese in einer weit entfernten Stadt Arbeit findet. Als die beiden nach Hause kommen, entdecken sie eine Linie aus noch nasser roter Farbe, die ihr Grundstück umgibt. Was hat das zu bedeuten, in diesem Land, das seine Einwohner mithilfe von Technologie streng kontrolliert und völlig entmenschlicht? Bri und Rose jedenfalls vermuten nichts Gutes und verstecken sich in einem leer stehenden Haus am anderen Ende der Stadt. Dort treffen sie bald auf eine Gruppe von Widerständlern, auf ein Pferd namens Gliff, und auf eine neue Form des Überlebens. 'Gliff' erzählt mit Verweisen auf Klassiker der dystopischen Literatur eine elektrisierende, und so märchenhafte wie erschreckende Geschichte über zwei junge Menschen auf der Suche nach Halt in dieser schönen neuen Welt. Ali Smith zeigt uns, 'wo Tapferkeit und Güte über Gefahr und Angst triumphieren.' (Financial Times)
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Girl, 1983
Over seven taut, sharp but elusive novels, the Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann has sought to refine experience into stories that carve order, even beauty, from a shadowed past . . . Girl, 1983 nods to Annie Ernaux, Marguerite Duras and other kindred literary spirits - but her method and manner has a tact and finesse all its own . . . If her fictions transcend the raw stuff of autobiography, they never deny the soil from which they spring . . . Ullmann crafts her words with unflagging care
€ 26,50