Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Vintage Publishing Life and Times of Michael K
Book SynopsisJ.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.Trade ReviewA strong and memorable novel * Guardian *It strikes deep inside the heart...The story is clean, clear, straight, the work of a mature imagination at full power...here is a book that will be celebrated for a long time * Mail on Sunday *This is a trule astonishing novel... I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough * Evening Standard *Beautifully written in a strong, plain, unpretentious style...distinguished by grim humour and powerful understatement * Sunday Express *The quality of Coetzee's writing lies in his inner vision: dark, passionately compassionate, concerned with the nature of man * Financial Times *
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Vintage Publishing Black Snow
Book SynopsisWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAMWhen Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt.Trade ReviewA masterpiece of black comedy * Irish Times *The novel moves with mad exuberance * Independent *Bulgakov, the first magical realist-is regarded as the Soviet writer who made the strongest impact on twentieth-century Western fiction * Irish Times *A writer of fantastic genius * Sunday Times *
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Vintage Publishing The ExWives
Book SynopsisDiscover this funny and warm novel for anyone who has ever been curious about their partner''s past from the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Meet Buffy. With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy''s bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and step-children, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives... ''Wonderfully funny'' Daily Mail ''Marries comedy and canniness into a novel that''s warm, tolerant, shrewd and exuberant'' Sunday TimesTrade ReviewYou’ll be hooked from the first page of this original, funny book… Just delicious * New Woman *Wonderfully funny * Daily Mail *The Ex-Wives marries comedy and canniness into a novel that’s warm, tolerant, shrewd and exuberant * Sunday Times *Cracking good dialogue, excellent jokes and laser sharp * Daily Telegraph *Deborah Moggach is brilliant at capturing just the right voice for her characters * Cosmopolitan *
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Vintage Publishing Black Venus
Book SynopsisAngela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.Trade ReviewBlack Venus displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best... Whatever her subject Miss Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare. And as the voices call out, the images blaze, one is saved from an excess of fantasy by earthy realism, a sudden bark of humour * Sunday Telegraph *The "radicalised" Carter tells her tales of terror ferociously, with black brilliance. Black Venus is shot with dazzling lightning. It is thunderous and magnetic; irresistible even when it seems most repellent * Courrier Mail *Earthy, bawdy and bizarre in turn, there is a fine intelligence at work here * Daily Telegraph *She was one of the century's finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Sunday Times *Angela Carter has language at her fingertips * New Statesman *
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Vintage Publishing Beijing Coma
Book SynopsisREPUBLISHED ON THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE, WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR AND A NEW COVER BY AI WEIWEIBeijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty and deep rage, it takes the life, and near-death, of one young student to create a dazzling and excoriating novel about contemporary ChinaMonumental' GuardianA landmark work of fiction' Daily TelegraphA modern literary masterpiece' Sunday ExpressDai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories, weaving together the events that took him from his harsh childhood in the last years of the Cultural Revolution to his student days at Beijing University.As the minuTrade ReviewThis is an epic yet intimate work that deserves to be recognised and to endure as the great Tiananmen novel ... a magnificent book brim-full of humanity, insight and humour ... beautifully translated by Flora Drew -- James Kynge * Financial Times *Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction -- Tash Aw * Daily Telegraph *A huge achievement ... a landmark account through fiction of a country whose rise has amazed the world, but which remains cloaked in shadows... finely written and translated -- Jonathan Fenby * The Times *In scene after scene of black satire, lyric tenderness and desolating tragedy…this fearless epic of history and memory establishes the exiled Ma Jian as the Solzhenitsyn of China’s forgetful drive towards world-domination’ -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *Monumental...riveting. This vivid, pungent, often blackly funny book is a mighty gesture of remembrance against the encroaching forces of silence -- James Lasdun * Guardian *Powerful and exhilirating... Simultaneously a large-scale portrait of citizens writing in the grip of the party and the state and a strikingly intimate study of the fragility of the body and the persistence of self and memory -- Chandrahas Choudhury * Observer *A modern literary masterpiece ... Ma Jian has created an intense, passionate and painful-to-read parable for today.. The elegant and bravura writing of Ma Jian is utterly convincing * Sunday Express *
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Vintage Publishing Loving Living Party Going
Book SynopsisWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKSHenry Green, whom W. H. Auden called ''the finest living English novelist'', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings together three of Henry Green''s intensely original novels. Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry. Party Going is a brilliant comedy of manners, presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the station below.Trade ReviewGreen paints an unforgettable portrait of a doomed, amoral world whose characters, trapped in the fog, are somehow waltzing blithely towards oblivion...cinematic in its intensity -- Robert McCrum * Guardian *Heartbreaking, funny and written with such luminous prose - he's the most brilliant, and neglected, of English writers * Red Magazine *Perhaps the best introduction to another great original of the English novel, who learned from Firbank’s economy, but who had his own quite different imaginative world. Loving, set among the servants of an Irish country house, combines his superbly truthful ear for how people really speak with an unforgettable vein of surreal poetry -- Alan Hollinghurst * New York Times *The most original, the best writer of his time -- Rebecca WestThe most gifted prose writer of his generation -- V. S. Pritchett
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Vintage Publishing The Thrill of it All
Book SynopsisAt college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Thérèse Sherlock and her twin brother Seán on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past. Spanning 25 years, The Thrill of it All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative soundtrack of struggle and laughter. Infused with blues, ska, classic showtunes, New Wave and punk, using interviews, lyrics, memoirs and diaries, the tale stretches from suburban England to Manhattan's East Village, from Thatcher-era London to the Hollywood Bowl, from the meadows of the Glastonbury Festival to a wintry Long Island, culminating in a Dublin evening in July 2012, a night that changes everything.A story of loyalties, friendship, the call of the muse, and the beguiling shimmer of teenage dreams, this is a warm-heTrade ReviewJoseph O'Connor's The Thrill of it All uses layered narrative textures with both serious skill and engaging lightness so that the core drama emerges with clarity and wit. -- Colm Toibin * Observer, Books of the Year, 2014 *Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be bettered: Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance * Guardian *O'Connor at his playful and narrative best… shot through with electricity, packed with sentences that send you spinning, full of joy and sadness and swerve. This was a book to make my tired heart soar. Of all the Irish writers working today, Joe O'Connor speaks better than anyone of what is genuine, what is necessary, and what is ennobling. A thrill indeed. -- Colum McCann, winner of the US National Book Award and the Impac Award[O’Connor] is warm without being sentimental, and he cuts effortlessly between comedy and tragedy. Music nerds will love the most satisfyingly voluminous playlists since High Fidelity -- Kate Saunders * The Times *A novel about music, family and friendship...O'Connor brilliantly evokes the 1980s... This novel is shot through with humour, patois and all the human contradictions that make the characters truly memorable. * Mail on Sunday *
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Cornerstone Heart Of Oak
Book SynopsisIt is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain''s fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy''s proximity. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an ocean of blood and decades of war.Trade ReviewOne of our foremost writers of naval fiction * The Sunday Times *As you would expect, Kent is a dab hand at plotting and at action scenes, and this novel is another accomplished performance from the old man of the sea * The First Post *The storytelling has an easy mastery; the prose is lean and muscular, without a word wasted. How well Kent knows his stuff! Not just the jargon of the high seas - the pawls and maintops and the quarter-boats and the catheads - but the psychology of naval men in uniform * Sunday Telegraph *
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Cornerstone Star Wars Labyrinth of Evil
Book SynopsisJAMES LUCENO is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The Unifying Force and other Star Wars novels. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and youngest child.
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Vintage Publishing The Position
Book SynopsisEverything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but the lives of the Mellow family are no longer the same: their children grapple with complicated 21st century problems and the iconic couple''s perfect marriage has not run as smoothly as everyone has assumed...Trade ReviewThe best novel I have read in years... a cast-iron masterpiece -- David Baddiel * The Times *Funny, moving and wise, The Position is a joy to read * Daily Mail *Meg Wolitzer is a fine, funny and wise writer * Independent on Sunday *Hilarious * Mail on Sunday *Her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic...an entertaining and persuasive novel about a family and its inevitable diffusion * Daily Telegraph *
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Vintage Publishing Quicksand
Book SynopsisA seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit. With an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, author of ''Cat Person''Trade ReviewA riveting tale of malevolent corruption fatally masked by a terrible and deceptive beauty: fatal attraction in a 1920s Japanese setting * Kirkus Reviews *Quicksand reads like a mixture of James Cain and Vladimir Nabokov and teases us with forbidden pleasures * Washington Times *A harrowing black comedy of love and death * Chicago Tribune *Beautifully and mysteriously contrived * Newsday *
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Vintage Publishing Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
Book SynopsisAn eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories.Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for.Trade ReviewMore insights into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos that one has a right to expect in any single volume * Daily Express *An intimate pleasure * The Times *Literature's answer to David Lynch * Times Literary Supplement *These stories are rich in Murakami magic... a collection that all readers will enjoy * Independent *Sharp but humane observation...as unforgettable as it is untypical * New Statesman *
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Vintage Publishing House of Meetings
Book SynopsisMartin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.Trade ReviewThis novella is the best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years: very complex, very forceful, startling in the amount of ground it covers, and densely and intelligently put together * Literary Review *An ambitious feat...the result is brilliant * Independent *It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force... Amis has produced a memorable novel and a memorable protagonist * Observer *A singular, unimpeachable triumph * The Economist *Unmistakably Amis's best novel since London Fields...a slender, moving novel, streaked with dark comedy * Sunday Times *
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Vintage Publishing The Pregnant Widow
Book SynopsisA phenomenal writer' Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone''s mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn''t come off quite as he expects.''Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language'' Financial TimesTrade ReviewNo one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it * Observer *One of the funniest books I've read in a long time * Psychologies *Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language * Financial Times *Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *The best novelist of his generation * Independent *
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Vintage Publishing Suite Francaise
Book SynopsisIrène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.Trade ReviewA masterpiece * Sunday Times *Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth -- Anne Chisholm * Sunday Telegraph *An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart -- Carmen Callil * The Times *The work of a genuine artist -- Julian Barnes * Guardian *Magnificent * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing Burma Boy
Book SynopsisA few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. Burma Boy is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War''s most vicious battleground. It''s also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man.Trade ReviewAs humane, ridiculous and moving as Waugh's novels of the world at war -- Ronan BennettA gripping narrative - by turns pathetic, comic and exciting * Sunday Times *Fascinating...unusual...invigorating...and very funny * Observer *A superb Second World War adventure... tender and funny * The Times *Vividly recreates the violence and drama of a forgotten war, describing the camaraderie between fighting men with humour and compassion -- Maggie Gee
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Vintage Publishing A Redbird Christmas
Book SynopsisIt''s Christmas in the small town of Lost River. The stage is set for an an enchanting and unforgettable celebration, and even a Christmas miracle... When Oswald moves to the sleepy little town of Lost River he's not expecting to make friends - but one by one the eccentric inhabitants win his heart. There's his landlady Betty who's a force to be reckoned with, Roy who runs the local store and secretly nurses a broken heart, Patsy the little abandoned girl he takes under his wing and, most importantly, Jack the redbird who brings the sort of miracle that can only happen at Christmas...''A wonderful book ...oozing with goodness and charm... Absurdly satisfying'' Guardian''A born storyteller'' New York TimesTrade ReviewA wonderful book ...oozing with goodness and charm... Absurdly satisfying -- Julie Myerson * Guardian *A born storyteller * New York Times *Gentle and poignant...Use a hankie as a bookmark * Daily Mail *A gentle tale that makes for a good read at any time, not just Christmas * Glasgow Herald *
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Vintage Publishing Slow Man
Book SynopsisBut his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.Trade ReviewSensational... Another exemplary tale of suffering from one of the best writers of our time, who dares to articulate our incomprehensible existence, and manages it with extraordinary and sensitive eloquence * The Times *[Slow Man] finds the Nobel laureate on top form... A consummate writer of fiction * Observer *Coetzee is a unique voice; no novelist explores the ideas and the power of literature and the sense of displacement so boldly. Slow Man will add to his immense reputation * Independent on Sunday *Remorselessly human, it is also funny and touching: Coetzee the artist remains the complete novelist * Irish Times *A tremendous and startling novel... Coetzee is a novelist who cares about every word. Slow Man confirms him as among our greatest living authors * The Times *
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Cornerstone Star Wars Legacy of the Force II Bloodlines
Book SynopsisAs civil war continues to break out in the Galactic Alliance, terrorism begins to drive the Alliance towards ever more repressive laws. Families find themselves divided, and old friendships are torn apart. But the bitterest enemy can be your own flesh and blood - and your foe can turn out to be your only ally. Old enemies Han Solo and Boba Fett are drawn together as they both learn some harsh truths about their own kin, while Luke and Mara Skywalker fear for their only son, Ben, when his Jedi Master, Jacen Solo, makes a dangerous choice that shocks both families and the galaxy at large.
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Cornerstone Missing
Book SynopsisOn an early autumn day like any other Miles Avery drives his wife, Jacqueline, to the train station.Jacqueline gets out of the car, picks up her overnight bag, and turns towards the platforms.This is the last anyone sees of her.When Miles calls the police three weeks later, they find no evidence of Jacqueline boarding a train, or even entering the station.Does Miles know more than he's letting on? And could his missing wife somehow be linked to the tragic disappearance of their son years before?As dark secrets from the past merge with those of the present, Miles must confront his biggest fears if he's to uncover the truth. Praise for Susan Lewis''One of the best around'' Independent on Sunday''A guaranteed tear-jerker that will keep you at the edge of your seat'' OK!''Spellbinding'' Daily Mail
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Vintage Publishing The Accordionists Son
Book SynopsisThe Accordionist''s Son is a remarkably powerful and accomplished novel, exploring the life of David Imaz, a former inhabitant of the Basque village of Obaba, now living in exile and ill-health on a ranch in California.As a young man, David divides his time between his uncle''s ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practises the accordion on the insistence of his authoritarian father. Increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War, he begins to unravel the story of the conflict, his father''s association with the fascists and his uncle''s opposition and brave decision to hide a wanted republican. Caught betweeen the two men, the course of his own life is changed forever when he agrees to shelter a group of students on the run from the military police.Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.Trade ReviewThe first great Basque novel * Times Literary Supplement *A briliantly inventive writer... terribly moving and wildly funny -- A. S. ByattThis most delicate and personal of novels packs a powerful political message * Independent *Incredibly powerful... magnificently written * Financial Times *A magical novel that exlores friendship and memory, language and loss * Metro *
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Random House Matters of Life Death
Book SynopsisAny book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without question - one of the finest contemporary examples of the short story as a genre. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear, Matters of Life and Death is a book about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. Vivid, beautifully controlled and written with effortless skill and empathy, these stories are object lessons in the art of short fiction.Trade ReviewThese are stories in the easiest and most pleasurable sense of the word. MacLaverty's work is in a line from Chekhov, via Frank O'Connor -- Anne Enright * Guardian *I have not read anything as good for a long time * Literary Review *Eleven exquisite examples of the genre... MacLaverty writes with consumamte skill... This is a book to cherish and one to read and re-read with pleasure in the skilful craft of its composition * Irish Independent *MacLaverty is an exhilarating, tender, humorous wirter... who can set a scene and create a character with Chekhovian delicacy and economy... He reminds us that although life is a dangerous, painful business, we should never despair * Sunday Telegraph *This stupendous new book - crucial, shattering sentences - that express, modestly, monumentally the achievement of this extraordinary writer. He is in behind your eyes before you feel his thinking knife ...Matters of Life and Death is a great book. The explicit presiding literary presence is Chekhov. Not reached nor striven for, innate, rather -- Candia McWilliams * Scottish Review of Books *
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Cornerstone Madame Serpent
Book SynopsisSullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown.Amid the glittering fêtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir...Trade ReviewHer novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there -- Matt Bates * WH Smith Travel *Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved education * Spectator *Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama * New York Times *Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists * Sunday Times *Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
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Cornerstone The Plantagenet Prelude
Book SynopsisJean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her deah in 1993.Trade ReviewHer novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there -- Matt Bates * WH Smith Travel *Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive. -- Julia Moffat, RNAMiss Plaidy does full justice to the trials of Henry II's last years. The demands of the vast Angevin Empire, provide strong dramatic material which she handles with her usual skill. * Sunday Times *These books are page-turners; they offer a wonderful way to learn about history, their heroines are smart, strong and in control of their destinies and their stories will remain with you for ever...They are a celebration of women's spirit throughout history. * Daily Express *Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
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Cornerstone Saturnalia
Book SynopsisWe should have time to manage it and still get back to the party before the wine runs out.'It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities, for Helena's brother Justinus has also vanished. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule, the search seems impossible and only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streetsTrade ReviewLike visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skulduggery crowd the pages * Guardian *Every book in this series is a delight... fans will snap it up. Highly recommended * Library Journal *Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside...Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted - real fun * Time Magazine *One of the best in this series, a nice mix of wit and wisecracks * Literary Review *Rome is vividly brought to life - alien yet curiously familiar. And the story gallops along at a tremendous pace with humour and suspense dispensed in equal measure. Saturnalia is another rollicking good yarn * Daily Express *
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Vintage Publishing Hunting and Gathering
Book SynopsisBorn in 1970, Anna Gavalda was a teacher whose collection of stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, shot her to fame (published in the UK with her novella Someone I Loved). Her novel Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble c'est tout) was a bestseller in several countries, selling over two million copies, and was made into a film; this was followed by Consolation. Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The mother of two children, she lives and writes just outside Paris.Trade ReviewEnjoyable, well-paced and engaging -- Lucille Houston * Times Literary Supplement *Like Amélie, Hunting and Gathering stops at nothing to make the reader feel good. Reading it reminded me of tucking into one of those beautifully constructed little cakes that you see in the windows of elegant French patisseries * Sunday Telegraph *A charming, romantic - and very French - novel -- Rev'd Amber Pearson * Daily Mail *An elegant, ironic tale.. this will be a classic * Cosmopolitan *Gavalda's ability to reinvent the will-they-won't-they love story makes this a refreshing five-star read with real bite * Eve *
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Vintage Publishing Constitutional
Book SynopsisA sensational short story collection from Britain''s master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a new front door. Another grows increasingly frustrated as the grim reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic results. Elsewhere, a chain-smoker's brush with death appears to help him reassess his priorities, a south London builder avenges the duping of his adored mother, and a phlebotomist's relationship is pushed to it limits by her preoccupation with war. And in the title story, a teacher's circular walk on Hampstead Heath leads to revelations about mourning, ageing, and new life.A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O''Connor and Alice Munro' Robert McCrum, ObserverTrade ReviewA masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro -- Robert McCrum * Observer *Simpson's use of language is remarkable: she handles prose with the risky precision of a trapeze artist, swooping and tumbling through empty air, seeming certain at moments to succumb to whimsy or sentimentality but at the last moment recovering her grasp on the deftly constructed framework of her narratives. It's a virtuoso performance; its effect on the reader both consoling and exhilarating -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *She is a virtuoso... Briskly melancholic, dazzlingly pertinent short stories about women's lives and how they survive * Sunday Times *Subtle, emotional, humorous, painful and acute... It's a small masterpiece * Independent *The brilliance of the conceits and the complex economy that shapes the best of these tales, match and surpass any of Helen Simpson's earlier writing -- Stevie Davies * Guardian *
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Vintage Publishing The Amnesia Clinic
Book SynopsisAnti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabián, who is everything Anti isn''t: handsome, athletic and popular. What''s more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents.Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his passion for outlandish tales, and before long their relationship becomes one conducted entirely through the telling of tales. One subject, however, is taboo: Fabián''s parents. But when details surrounding their disappearance begin to emerge, Anti decides to console his friend with a story suggesting that Fabián''s mother may be living at a bizarre hospital on the coast for patients with memory loss. With confused emotions and reality losing its tenuous grip, the boys embark on a quixotic voyage across Ecuador in search of an ''Amnesia Clinic'' that may, or may not exist.The Amnesia Clinic won the SomersTrade ReviewAn inventive debut * Herald *Scudamore has produced a clever, witty and believable debut. A fantastic read -- Caroline Gibb * Scotsman *A polished debut... Turns the tables on both characters and readers as imagination segues into dangerous reality * Guardian *Scudamore has fun blurring the edges of truth and fiction, creating fantastic and colourful stories within stories -- Laurence Phelan * Independent on Sunday *Bewitching...Highly recommended. Scudamore has talent to burn -- Matt Thorne * Sunday Telegraph *
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Vintage Publishing McEwan I Atonement
Book SynopsisIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.Trade ReviewHe is this country's unrivalled literary giant...a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel * Independent on Sunday *Ian McEwan’s highly-charged story of sin and forgiveness is masterfully told. Tense, shocking and heart-breaking in equal turn. * Grazia *Atonement is a masterpiece...it is also an elegy to a time which, however volatile, still had certainties * The Times *A beautiful and majestic fictional panoramaA deft and brilliant exploration of guilt, family and the rippling repercussions of a single moment in life * Red *
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Vintage Publishing The File on H
Book SynopsisTwo Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a ''new fangled'' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer''s epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants'' nest.This simple tale by Albania''s most eminent and gifted novelist serves to lift the veil on one of the most secret and mysterious countries of modern Europe.Witty and touching. It consolidates Kadare''s reputation as one of the finest writers to emerge from communist Europe' Sunday TimesTrade ReviewWitty and touching. It consolidates Kadare's reputation as one of the finest writers to emerge from communist Europe * Sunday Times *Eloquent, engaging and poignant * Irish Times *A wicked and amusing satire of provincial life...it is also an elegiac celebration of the power of poetry * Times Literary Supplement *Funny, strange, and melancholy * Guardian *Knife-sharp satire...originality shines through * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing The View from Castle Rock
Book SynopsisAlice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.Trade Review"A collection that sees her delving even deeper and with glittering expertise into a fictional terrain she has made her own for 40 years now" -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times "The pre-eminent master of the short story... all delivered by her spare, wonderful prose" -- David Mattin Independent on Sunday "If there is one writer who proves that the short story should never be deemed the uninspiring younger sibling of the novel, it is Munro" -- Melissa McClements Financial Times "This is a deeply moving and contemplative book. If it is a valediction, then it is a magnificent one" -- Mary Morrissy Irish Times "Mesmerising and cleverly interlinked, these stories are well balanced - neither overly inventive nor stolidly factual. Ms Munro's light touch and her sensitive embellishment of the truth result in a book that is illuminated by the patterns of life repeating themselves over the years" Economist
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Vintage Publishing Cowboys and Indians
Book SynopsisThe first novel by Joseph O''Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he''s convinced awaits in the wild world of the London rock scene.Things don''t quite go as planned, however. He finds himself living in a ramshackle hotel with a girl he met on the ferry over, while a bewildering array of acid-house ravers, saloon-bar revolutionaries, music-business wideboys and media primadonnas all seem very anxious to help Eddie on his way...''Very funny... An immensely readable and entertaining book, full of truth about the world we live in'' Sunday Independent''Clever, wry and often hilarious...with sardonic, very knowing digs at youthful pretension'' Time OutTrade ReviewCaustic and entertaining * Sunday Times *Sharply observed and always entertaining * Independent *This is an impressive debut: a good story, well told, great characters, with sardonic, knowing digs at the youthful pretention...clever, wry and often hilarious * Time Out *Well-written, tremendously confident * Irish Independent *Characters that leap out at you like figures in a pop-up book. Joseph O'Connor's first novel suggests he is bound for fame * Observer *
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Cornerstone Silver Wedding
Book SynopsisAnother unforgettable novel from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.''What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?'' HELLO! Magazine_______________An unforgettable novel from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of FriendsDesmond and Deirdre Doyle''s silver wedding anniversary is drawing ever closer, and it falls to the couple''s eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate the big day.No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother Brendan, who has chosen exile on a bleak farm in the west of Ireland.But it is unthinkable not to have a party, even though for the Doyles, family occasions are more difficult than for most. And as the day draws nearer, so the tension mounts, until finally the guests gather at the party itself. . ._______________Readers can''t get enough of Silver Wedding . . .***** ''When I read a Maeve, I feel I have come home.''***** ''A clever and insightful read.''***** ''I love her style. Her characters are so rich.''***** ''One of my favorite writers, she understands people in a rare way.''***** ''An excellent read, as always!''Trade Review"Maeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething cauldron of emotions which lies beneath the surface of everyday life" Irish Independent "An adept storyteller with a sharp eye for social nuances and a pleasing affection for her characters" Sunday Times "A rousing good story ... Laughter and tears: it's what Binchy does best" San Francisco Chronicle "Maeve Binchy is one of the few writers who can pull at your heartstrings ... she has a touching belief in goodness, but knows that bad things happen... reading her books is like gossiping with old friends" Daily Express "A joy to read from start to finish" Best
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Cornerstone Echoes
Book SynopsisGrowing up in a small seaside town in the 1950s, Clare O'Brien and David Power pray that their destiny will lead them faraway from the town in which they live. Years later, they meet again in Dublin, where David is studying medicine and Clare has won a scholarship to University College. This is a story of ambition, betrayal and love.Trade ReviewMaeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething cauldron of emotions which lies beneath the surface of everyday life * Irish Independent *An adept storyteller with a sharp eye for social nuances and a pleasing affection for her characters * Sunday Times *A powerful story of love and jealousy * Sunday Telegraph *Compulsive reading... Ms Binchy has the true story-teller's knack * Observer *
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Cornerstone Firefly Summer
Book SynopsisMaeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake. Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.Trade ReviewWonderfully warm and involving -- Katie FfordeMaeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething cauldron of emotions which lies beneath the surface of everyday life * Irish Independent *An adept storyteller with a sharp eye for social nuances and a pleasing affection for her characters * Sunday Times *The secrets hidden behind lace curtains, a young girl's first kiss, children's summer games, unexpected pregnancies, sudden deaths. She makes us feel as if we also know the place and the people... One of those good old-fashioned stories that are as comfortable and comforting as home itself * The Philadelphia Inquirer *
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Vintage Publishing Not That Sort Of Girl
Book SynopsisWhen, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder. For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all others, Rose''s heart is with the true love of her life, Mylo, the penniless but passionate Frenchman who, within five minutes of their meeting declared his love and asked her to marry him.Whilst Rose remains true to her promise never to leave Ned, not even the war, social conventions, nor the prying of her overly inquisitive and cheerfully immoral neighbours, can stop her and Mylo from meeting and loving one another.Trade ReviewMistress of the dark side of upper-class mores -- Kathryn Hughes * Observer *Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality * Scotsman *
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Random House A Sensible Life
Book SynopsisFlora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an extensive vocabulary of French foul language and encounters the privileged lifestyle of the elegant, middle-class British families holidaying in 1920s France. Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilised and, above all, caring people Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love with not one but three young men.Over the next forty years Flora will grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, consummate and finally resolve each of these affairs.Trade ReviewMade me both laugh out loud and cry * The Times *She writes with the knowledge and wisdom of serene old age and the emotional exuberance of glowing young womanhood * Daily Telegraph *I loved every word of it * Guardian *A splendid novel * Evening Standard *
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Vintage Publishing The Master Bedroom
Book SynopsisTessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.Trade ReviewFew writers give me such consistent pleasure -- Zadie SmithShe has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozie AdichieA luxuriant writer... the richness of her descriptions need only be matched by the imagination of the reader * Washington Times *Closely observed, beautifully written, generous, funny and true, Hadley's fiction is the real thing * Sunday Times *A sharp and a sexy read * Observer *
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Vintage Publishing The Shadows in the Street
Book SynopsisExhilarating' IndependentWhen two prostitutes are found brutally strangled to death, Detective Simon Serrailler is called urgently back from his sabbatical.But by the time he reaches the town of Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing. Has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?Brilliantly compelling' Daily MirrorDiscover the fifth edge-of-your seat novel in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.Trade ReviewExhilarating * Independent *Brilliantly compelling * Daily Mirror *A crime tale with an emotional core * Herald *A crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect. These books succeed in harnessing all the genre's addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own * Independent *Nothing's quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose * Daily Mirror *
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Vintage Publishing The Vows of Silence
Book Synopsis''Serrailler, Hill''s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer''s crime fiction novels'' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLA gunman is terrorising young women. What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family. The pressure is mounting...''A captivating read'' ObserverDiscover the bestselling crime series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.Trade ReviewA captivating read * Observer *I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes * Daily Telegraph *Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fictionSusan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending * Spectator *Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary apparatus and they are given full rein here * Daily Express *
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Vintage Publishing Tatty
Book SynopsisHailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl.With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading.Trade ReviewChristine Dwyer Hickey's marvellous novel is a wonderful achievement. She gets the very sense, smell and taste of a child's world so authentically correct. * Irish Examiner *Some of the finest writing of this century and the last. * Irish Independent *Dwyer Hickey's mastery of the child's voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of children leads to some hilarious moments. * Sunday Tribune *Beautiful and heartbreaking. * Sunday Independent *Dwyer Hickey gives Tatty a fragile resilience. It makes for authentic fiction. * The Sunday Times *
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Vintage Publishing Rant
Book SynopsisRant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the 'superspreader', transmits his lethal disease.Trade ReviewRant is fast and true...and so funny that your facial muscles soon tire * Guardian *This is a wonderful book and the author is never short of wonderful ideas - they fizz from every page. Palahniuk's world might be a freak-show, but it's one that makes a disturbing amount of sense * Daily Telegraph *Palahniuk's fiction shows a rare bravery and occasionally hits true brilliance. Rant may not only be his best book yet, but the best by any novelist in some time * Sunday Herald *The twisted genius behind Fight Club delivers another literary gem... It's a deranged, hiliarious and unique novel * Maxim *It's a sort of Fight Club on wheels... When Palahniuk puts his foot on the throttle and pulls all the various voices towards a spectacular conclusion, in every sense, Rant quickly becomes a definite scream * Daily Mirror *
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Cornerstone Going Dutch
Book Synopsis________________Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.' AJ PEARCE_________________A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape.Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She''s not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited.Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up - and accepting Jo''s offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only alternative. As Jo and Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives, they realise they both need a practical way to keep themselves afloat. But, despite their certainty that they''ve sworn off men for good, they haven''t baTrade ReviewThe mother-daughter bond the women develop is endearing and the heartache caused by a failed long marriage is touchingly conveyed * Daily Telegraph *Sometimes you can't beat a good old fashioned dose of romance and this tale has that in abundance * The Sun *A fairytale-like, gently witty read ... Heart-warming - made for sunny days in the park * Cosmopolitan *Delicious ... gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches * The Sunday Times *A sweet a breezy read - the ideal accompaniment to a long summer's evening * The Daily Mail *
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Vintage Publishing Paula Spencer
Book SynopsisTen years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn’t had a drink for four months and five days.Trade Review[A] marvellous novel -- Carmen Callil * Financial Times *Roddy Doyle has done the impossible - he has made Paula Spencer even more unforgettable the second time round * The Times *[A] magnificent achievement * Guardian *Doyle has created a little masterwork, a gem of persuasive realism -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *An intoxicating sequel...a phenomenally rewarding read -- Euan Ferguson * Observer *
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Vintage Publishing Everyman
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose theme is the summoning of the living to death.The fate of Roth''s everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.Trade ReviewA human story for our times -- A.S. ByattShimmers with the mysteries and regrets of a whole life...poignant, droll, and eloquent * Daily Telegraph *Capable of altering the way you see the world * Observer *Alive with literary brilliance for all its deathly subject matter * Sunday Times *So compelling, so important * Guardian *
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Vintage Publishing The Gathering
Book SynopsisAnne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.Trade ReviewShe beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly compelling -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction -- A. L. Kennedy * Guardian *A welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga -- Eve Patten * Irish Times *Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker -- Adam Mars-Jones * Observer *Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality * Sunday Telegraph *
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Cornerstone The Associate
Book SynopsisJohn Grisham is the author of forty works of fiction and one of non-fiction. His works are translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Virginia.Trade ReviewIt's a damned good read. This is Grisham returning to what he knows best. * Scotland on Sunday *Grisham paints a fascinating picture. Vintage Grisham, with a really believable ending * The Guardian *Tense and exciting * Evening Standard *Easily his most recognisably 'back to form' novel since The Firm. Grisham has returned with a vengeance to his trademark territory: the grim world of corporate law and the sinister machinations of the men on its fringes. * The Times *In typical Grisham fashion it does hurtle along at a decent clip * London Lite *
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Cornerstone Killing Ground
Book SynopsisDouglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.Trade ReviewA stirring tale of the Atlantic war ... one can almost smell the sea and the burning oil as Jitler's U-boats wreak havoc * Sunday Express *Vivid naval action at its most authentic * Sunday Times *Mr Reeman writes with great knowledge about the sea and those who sail on it * The Times *
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