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A Little Life introduces four bright young things as they graduate college, their sights trained on big New York City careers. But soon the novel darkens, it jars and then it appals, becoming less about the four young men and more particularly about one of them: the one who won’t tell of why he limps, why he doesn’t have relationships, why he cuts.
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Juan de Vere is an inconsequential gofer for big-shot film director Eduardo Muriel, who’s been briefed an investigatory side job into the philanderings of his boss’s esteemed friend. Like the first-person storytellers in all Marías’s books, Juan has been gifted an astonishing set of circumstances for spinning a remarkable tale.
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This compassionate novel has been dubbed by many to be a modern classic. It is the story of Captain Tom Barnes, wounded by an IED, told through forty-five inanimate objects; the book takes surprising turns and makes impressive leaps as it humanises something we have all become desensitised to - the brutality of war.
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Part memoir, part plea,
The End of Alchemy tells the story of King’s time as Governor of the Bank of England, it contextualises the recent financial crisis and calls for far-reaching changes to the financial system. King focusses less on assigning blame to individuals as to making succinct recommendations to avoid another similar crisis.
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With a remarkable, morally complex female protagonist as wickedly intelligent as Tom Ripley, and just as dangerous,
Maestra is the first of an electric new sequence of thrillers. Set against the lavish, exotic backdrop of the French Riviera, this is a taut, deliciously dark thriller that will shock and please in equal measure.
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In City of Thorns, Ben Rawlnece draws on almost five years of close observation to describe, in meticulous detail, daily life in the largest refugee camp on earth, Dadaab, situated in north-eastern Kenya. The book depicts nine individual residents’ lives, out of a total of half-a-million.
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A unique opportunity to hear three of the most exciting breakthrough YA authors discuss their novels and touch upon the subjects of diversity, identity, friendship and what it means to be ‘true to yourself’. We’re delighted to welcome Jandy Nelson, Sara Barnard and Lisa Williamson to Leeds, Liverpool and London Piccadilly, where they will be joined by Alice Oseman.
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The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel - ultra violent but curiously redemptive - and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting. Hear author Irvine Welsh discuss this, and his other works, when he visits Stirling and Manchester this April.
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From Chelsea Art School and a school dinner lady, to the first MC of the Comedy Store and The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle has done it all and more. We are thrilled to present the opportunity for you to meet him at London Piccadilly and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and hear him discuss the second volume of his memoirs, Thatcher Stole My Trousers. It’s an evening not to be missed.
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