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This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the faade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

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Includes stories that discuss con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, this title demonstrates the author's speech and place, and highlights his appreciation of life's quirks.

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These are refreshingly frank, sparely written stories that expose the world of bartenders and 'b-girls', car washers and criminals. John O'Hara dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them.

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Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics.

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This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', 'The Kid's Guide to Divorce'.

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Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop.

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The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollopes contemporary reworking of Jane Austens Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year.

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Includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee, David Gates.

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The smartest and most stylish work of commercial fiction since Allison Pearson's debut, I Don't Know How She Does It.

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A new edition of a lost classic of twentieth-century Italian literature: Tondelli's last book is a powerful novel about the strength of love and the trauma of death.

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Pete's swearing is getting worse. What with the divorce, the debt, and the dying travel business, no one seems to need him anymore. A feel-good novel about what happens when you let go of the past and make room for the unexpected later in life.

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Pete's swearing is getting worse. What with the divorce, the debt, and the dying travel business, no one seems to need him anymore. A feel-good novel about what happens when you let go of the past and make room for the unexpected later in life.

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A startling and inspirational work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil's "New Urban" fiction movement.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world.

A riveting, subtle novel about an undetected crime and its corrosive legacy for the schoolboy culprits, by a highly praised young writer

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From the Orange Prize-winning author of Property, the story of a woman on the run from sexual obsession

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A sparkling and original women's fiction gem that sits alongside novels that embrace big themes, such as Me Before You and The Memory Book

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You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure Scotland on Sunday

A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human Simon Pegg

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'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II.

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The fourth instalment in Sam Tobin's gripping and gritty Manchester Underworld gangland crime series, featuring Craig Malton - the man who solves crime for criminals...