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Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of his youth: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as a travel writer, capturing the changing, intriguing landscapes ...

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** FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RESTLESS AND ANY HUMAN HEART ** William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun MICK HERRON ------ An accidental spy. A web of betrayals. A...

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Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of...

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WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________ A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed ...

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WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times _____________________________________ On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponder...

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At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his house, studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the sur...

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With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Por...

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DISCOVER THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED NOVEL ABOUT ONE HEART'S LOVES AND LOSSES FROM ICONIC STORYTELLER WILLIAM BOYD 'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian 'Full of delights' The Times _____________________________ Every li...

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Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanziba...

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A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author's "e;brilliant . . . stunningly magical"e; novel (Washington Post Book World).William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called a "e;b...

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From one of the most accomplished writers of modern times comes a stunning literary mystery about crime and punishment.

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From one of our most celebrated and imaginative writers comes a spellbinding novel about deception, betrayal, and the mysteries of the human heart.

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In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man. . . . Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that le...

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William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose. The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning author of Brazzaville Beach and Restless, comes a ...

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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next tabl...

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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of ...

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This "e;thoroughly entertaining"e; historical novel has "e;the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty"e; (The New Yorker).Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychother...

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One of our most acclaimed authors takes on a legendary literary character, James Bond -- producing a smart and stylish narrative of international espionage, conspiracy, and war It's 1969, and, just having celebrated his 45th birthday, British agen...

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The issue of Granta that defined a new school of American writers: Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, Bobbie Ann Mason, Frederic Barthelme, Carolyn Forch and others.

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Stanely Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly after he began writing in 1968, things started to go wrong. The American concert tour that he joined ended in murder at a race track in the Californian des...

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The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, China, Cuba...what has happened to the nineteenth-century dream of revolution? John Berger, Milan Kundera, Orville Schell, Anita Brookner, James Fenton, Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, and Edward Said.

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From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of  Granta  turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

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For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and literature don't mix. But recently science writing has undergone a revival and has come to constitute a literature in itself. What accounts for its sudden appeal? The a...

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What does 'story-teller' suggest? Folk-tales, myths, sea voyages, a cartoon campfire: in short, a way of writing that is distinctly unmodern. Granta 21 presents the work of three authors who are, in their way, distinctly and deliberately...

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"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define t...

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'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer _________________________ One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine busin...

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