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Notwithstanding: Stories from an English village
A lovely collection of stories inspired by life in the English village in which the author grew up. |
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A Partisan's Daughter
Set partly in 1970s London and partly in wartime Yugoslavia, A Partisan's Daughter is the intriguing story of Roza and of her relationship with Chris, a middle-aged Englishman whose interest in her turns in to
obsessive love. |
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Birds without Wings
“Although his account of Gallipoli
is inspired – rarely has the ugly face of war been so lovingly
described – his heart belongs to the smaller canvas, and his
portrayal of sleepy, multi-ethnic village life before, during and
after the First World War is a magnificent achievement.”
The Times |
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an emotional,
funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy
and bleakness, personal lives and history..."
The Observer |
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The War of Don Emmanuel's
Nether Parts
‘A fat, juicy tropical fruit of a
narrative … There is astonishing landscape. There are
numerous good jokes. And, indispensably in such a novel, there
is magic'
Independent on Sunday |
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Senor Vivo and the Coca
Lord
‘Sharp, funny, engaging and British … de
Bernières is doing for Colombia’s drug culture what
Tom Sharpe did for apartheid. His approach is flippant, but
the purpose behind it is deadly serious.’
Financial Times |
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The Troublesome Offspring
of Cardinal Guzman
‘An extraordinary feat of imagination … a
sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual
sanity’
Time Out |
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Red Dog
The
story of a dog - a real one - who lived and travelled in Western
Australia and whose bronze statue stands in Karratha. |
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Sunday Morning at the Centre
of the World
A play for radio about life in Earlsfield,
South London, celebrating the people the author knew during the
10 years he lived there.
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Labels
A short story about a man
obsessed with cat-food labels |
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