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John
ConnollyJohn Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us more than a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M.R. James to Stephen King, Connolly delves into our darkest fears -- lost lovers, missing children, subterranean creatures and predatory demons.
Framing the collection are two substantial novellas: The Cancer Cowboy Rides charts the fatal progress of a modern-day grim reaper, while The Reflecting Eye is a haunted house tale with a twist and marks the return of private detective Charlie Parker, the troubled hero of Connolly's crime novels.
The perfect antidote to Christmas cheer, Nocturnes is a masterly volume to be read with the lights on menace has never been so seductive ...
The author:
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a regular contributor
to the Irish Times.
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Roddy
DoyleIt's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry falls on his feet, as -a handsome man with a sandwich board, and - this being "Prohibition - behind his sandwich board a stash of hooch for the speak-easies of the Lower East Side. When he starts hiring kids to carry boards for him, he catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America: Chicago.
In Chicago there is no past waiting to jump on Henry. The place is wild, as new as he is, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong.
His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. And the mob is in Chicago too: they own every stage - and they own the man up on the stage. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
This is a novel of prodigious energy and invention. Its language and its rhythms are as breathtaking as the music it celebrates. It shows yet again that as a writer Roddy Doyle is unequalled in his vision, his ambition, his ability to surprise us with each new novel.
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V.S.
NaipaulWillie Chandran - whom we first met in Hay a Life - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister - and his own listlessness - and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes.
But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution 'had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for,' and he feels himself further than ever 'from his own history and ... from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history.'
When he returns to England where, thirty years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and he comes to see himself as a man 'serving an endless prison sentence' - a revelation that may finally release him into his true self
Magic Seeds is a masterpiece, written with all the depth and resonance, the clarity of vision and precision of language that arc the hallmarks of this brilliant writer.
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Brian
Herbert & Kevin J. AndersonIn the years of peace too many of mankind have forgotten that their machine enemies never sleep.
But some have forgotten nothing - and learned from their triumphs. The brilliant military commander Vorian Atreides, son of a Titan, has the gift of long life from his terrifying father and knows the machines' minds better than any man alive. Norma Cenva, the genius inventor of humanity's best defences, dreams of new discoveries that will make man invincible.
And on the windswept desert planet Arrakis, the power that can give them victory waits.
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Toni
MorrisonThis audacious vision of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, and its dread - is rich in characters and dramatic events. Sensual, elegiac and unforgettable, Love reflects the different facets of love, shifting from desire and lust and ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.
The press:
'Morrison is at the very height of her powers. This is a novel that
demands to be read at least twice, for it is so rich and satisfying that
it sweeps you into a subtle world that you need take in ... quite breathtaking'
- Daily Mail
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Tim
ParksBut why does his daughter refuse to move to their spacious new house? Why does a young Korean woman keep phoning him to beg for help? As the most tangled lives are ironed out in court, Daniel Savage's own existence descends into a mess of violence and confusion. English society has fragmented into an incomprehensible public gallery where every face conceals a different culture. And those with whom we have the greatest intimacy are suddenly the most frighteningly mysterious.
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Edward
P. JonesIn one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia.
Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities.
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Jasper
FfordeThere is another 1988. Where purgatory is a motorway service station. Where dodos are very much alive, living in yout pottig shed, and called Alan. And where the future of the universe hangs in the balance of a premier league croquet match.
Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that.
First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there's the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-LiFe George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a seff-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorrick Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine.
Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it?
Welcome to the Next Dimension - where fiction is definitely very much stranger than truth.
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Alasdair
GrayThe Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude - a sure tonic for the young.
Illustrated throughout with the author's own eccentric drawings, these are the tales of love and loss as the body ungracefully ages, stories of mischievous old men and messages from Gray himself, proving he is not at the 'end of his tether'.
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Elio
VittoriniThe novel begins at a time in the unnamed narrator's life when nothing seems to matter. He is filled with a deep sense of ennui and feels disconnected from all that surrounds him.That is until he embarks on a journey to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years.
Alane Mason's new translation succeeds wonderfully in bringing this evocative and brilliant novel alive. It is a superb work of fiction, one of the great novels of anti-fascism and a book that is sure to astound contemporary readers for its modernity, lyricism, originality and freshness.
Reviews:
'Vittorini is one of the very best ... I care very much about his ability
to bring rain with him when he comes, if the earth is dry and that is what
you need'
- Ernest Hemingway
Afterword: Ernest Hemingway
Translator: Alane Salierno Mason
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Chuck
PalahniukThe pieces that comprise Non-Fiction prove just how different,
in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with
alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis;
the perculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production
of the movie Fight Club;
life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer
driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners;
the really violent world of college wrestlers;
the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers;
the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of
his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence
as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring
and orginal literary talents.
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Khaled
HosseiniBut neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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Adam
ThirwellIn it, you will also find lots of smaller stories - about Stalin on the phone, Chairman Mao in the bathroom, Osip Mandelstam on the loo, Adolf Hitler on all fours, and Milan Kundera in an argument
Politics is not about politics.
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Monique
TruongParis, 1934. Binh has accompanied his employers to the station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with his 'Mesdames', stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Binh fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother.
For five years, he has been the personal cook at the famous apartment on the rue de Fleurus. Binh is a lost soul, an exile and an alien, a man of musings, memories and possibly lies ... Tastes, oceans, sweat, tears - The Book of Salt is a an inspired novel about food and exile, love and betrayal.
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Margaret
ElphinstoneWhat follows is a gripping account of Mark's odyssey.
With adventure and discovery propelling the plot forward, Elphinstone
takes the reader back in time and intertwines the story with enduring themes
of love, war and family ties.
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Tad
WilliamsIn our own world, a young man discovers a manuscript written by his great uncle. It seems to be a novel - a strange fairy tale of fantastic creatures and a journey to a magical realm. But it is written as a diary ... as if the events were real ... as, if his uncle had sought and found another world.
Or as if another world had found him ...
758 pages
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