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(Paperback)
By: John Updike
ISBN: 9780141188560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary celebrity.
(Hardback)
By: John Updike
ISBN: 9781857152647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Everyman
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From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next.
(Paperback)
By: Joey Comeau
ISBN: 9781770410695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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Combining the ever popular Lockpick Pornography with its eagerly awaited follow-up.
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By: George MacDonald Fraser
ISBN: 9780006513711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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George MacDonald Fraser's collection of stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Siegfried Sassoon
ISBN: 9780571099139
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th May 1980
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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(Paperback)
By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141193687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "A House of Gentlefolks"; and, "The Sympathetic Passenger".
(Paperback)
By: H. Munro
ISBN: 9780141184494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations.
(Hardback, Special edition)
By: Patrick OBrian
ISBN: 9780008525439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of OBrians short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant OBrian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate enough to be journeying with him for the very first time.
(Paperback, Main - Canons Reissue)
By: Muriel Spark
ISBN: 9781786890016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway
(Paperback)
By: Saki
ISBN: 9781784871918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.
(Paperback)
By: J. G. Ballard
ISBN: 9780007242290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and Super-Cannes. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.
(Paperback)
By: Anita Desai
ISBN: 9781784706647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780375761355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Presents the complete collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Beach of Falesaa.".
(Paperback)
By: Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9781529111279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
ISBN: 9781643753942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Award-winning author Stacey DErasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husbands arrest, and what she knewor pretended not to know about where their familys money came from.
(Hardback)
By: Stacey D'Erasmo
ISBN: 9781643751962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Award-winning author Stacey DErasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a Ruth Madoff-like woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband's conviction for huge financial fraud and what she knewor pretended not to knowabout where their family's money came from.
(Paperback)
By: Ismail Kadare
ISBN: 9780099560890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth.
(Paperback)
By: Bakufu Narayama
ISBN: 9798891600737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2024
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
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(Paperback)
By: Bakufu Narayama
ISBN: 9798893730166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2025
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Haigh
ISBN: 9780007225071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A year in the life of the members of the divided McKotch family, revealing their secrets and their conflicts
(Paperback, Main - Canons Imprint)
By: Robin Jenkins
ISBN: 9780857862358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A haunting story of violence and love
(Paperback)
By: C W Gortner
ISBN: 9780340962978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Passion, adultery and betrayal in the court of one of history's most-maligned queens.
(Paperback)
By: Valerie Martin
ISBN: 9780753823217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Orange-Prize winner Valerie Martin returns with a powerful novel about love, sex and the perils of playing a role too well.
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By: Siobhan Fallon
ISBN: 9780399576416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
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A searing novel about jealousy, friendship, and marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring.
