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The masterfully told story of three generations of women set against the turbulent and exciting backdrop of early twentieth century Europe and America.

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In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid candidly appraises where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonisation and tourism.

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'This atmospheric novel plunges us into the folds of our own emotions thanks to a richly evocative style. It has the troubling melancholy of Modiano's novels and the charm of Rohmer's films.' - Gael

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'Our mother rather lost interest in us after the thirst got hold of her and, although our grandfather was vaguely fond of us, he certainly wasn't interested.'

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Penelope Wells, precocious daughter of a poet, is holidaying at her family's distinctly bohemian hotel on the French Riviera. She spends the summer beneath the green umbrella pines and oppressive purple bougainvillea scribbling into her Anthology of Hates to pass the time. Until she meets the Bradleys.

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An entirely new collection of the best short stories by Mark Twain, beautifully illustrated and designed.

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From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, 'a Russian hors d'oeuvre', An Alphabet for Gourmets takes us through a selection of food essays by the incomparable M. F. K. Fisher, alighting on long-time obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions to wholly charming effect.

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The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary.

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Combining personal reminiscence with reflections on the history of the place over the years and through the seasons, for the first time this collection brings together writers' impressions of the Pond.

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For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has wonprizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers theworld over with her spellbinding novels of NativeAmerican life.

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A collection of photographs of 44 breeds of dogs that capture them in particular & very individual moods.

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A hotly charged new work of fiction from the BookerPrize shortlisted author of Real Life.

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An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home.This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorce, and her daughter, Flor.

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Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.

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A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and
flowers.

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A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memoryfrom the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature.

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A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.

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'If it weren't such a pleasure to read, I'd say that Lord Jim at Home . . . was an instrument oftorture. It's thatgood.' - Ottessa Moshfegh, from the Foreword

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'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times

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A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything youve ever read before.

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In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighbourhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of individuals whose griefs and joys are as vivid as her own.

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Can it possibly matter that we allow two young people to imagine that they love one another when in two days' time they will in any event be parted

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A mother decides to follow her daughter to the city, she settles in the suburbs with her older daughter and son-in-law in tow. She quickly grows restless and is eager to find new friends. What proceeds is a story of the dissolution of a family, and the role that class plays in its downfall.

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Penelope Mortimer's only collection of short stories.