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  • An Awfully Big Adventure

    A “dark and brilliant” story of the secrets, sex, and violence playing out behind the scenes of a repertory theater troupe in postwar Liverpool: “Never before has showbusiness been revealed as less romantic.” (Patrick Skene Catling, The Sunday Telegraph)Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their ... En savoir plus

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  • A Quiet Life

    'One of the funniest books I have ever read.' Hilary MantelSeventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. And although the Second World War has ended, peace only hangs by a thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW, and while their ineffectual father – broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage – can't put food on the table, their ... En savoir plus

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  • The Birthday Boys

    A haunting and incisive group portrait of the crewmembers aboard Captain Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition.They set off from Cardiff in 1910, racing to plant the first flag in the South Pole: the burly Petty Officer Taff Evans; the introspective scientist Edward Wilson; the sanguine Lieutenant Birdie Bowers; the brooding Captain Lawrence Oates; and their tragic, conflicted leader, Captain Scott. ... En savoir plus

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  • Injury Time

    'I found myself laughing till the tears ran down my cheeks.' Auberon WaughBinny is throwing a dinner party for Edward, her lover. Aware that as his mistress, she has long been denied the small intimacies that his wife takes for granted – choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks – Edward wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life.Between a late ... En savoir plus

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  • Harriet Said . . .

    A gripping portrayal of female transgression and the intoxicating spell that adolescent friendship can cast.A young girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, the chief architect of all their past mischief. Listlessly roaming the shoreline each evening, she repeatedly encounters 'the Tsar', Peter Biggs. Middle ... En savoir plus

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  • Another Part of the Wood

    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 their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Dressmaker

    'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place.' Hilary MantelWartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and munitions factories. Seventeen-year-old Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, an American soldier, at a neighbour's party, she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as ... En savoir plus

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  • An Awfully Big Adventure

    Shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by Yiyun Li, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war, and unrequited first love.Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen-year-old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infatuation with the director, Meredith – failing to notice how he shows not only no interest in her, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Bottle Factory Outing

    Shortlisted for the 1974 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by A. K. Blakemore, a razor-sharp and mercilessly funny novel of friendship, class and desire.Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A picnic out at Windsor Park for the two women and their colleagues offers promise ... En savoir plus

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  • Sweet William

    'Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed.' Evening StandardAnn is fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions: she's a BBC secretary, recently engaged to a successful academic. Outside her Hampstead flat, the Swinging Sixties are happening elsewhere, to other people. That is, until she meets the generous and cunning playwright William. Ann is first seduced, then transfixed. As William's ... En savoir plus

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  • The Book of Liverpool

    A City in Short Fiction

    Featuring:Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James Friel, and Tracy Aston.A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale…A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver…A bricklayer working on the foundations ... En savoir plus

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  • Collected Stories

    The complete short stories of Beryl Bainbridge, including the novella Filthy Lucre – written when the author was only thirteen years old.Bainbridge's exquisite, devastating skill for skewering characters in all their pomposity, fallibilities, vulnerability and humour, not to mention their capability for cruelty, is fully on display in this collection, accompanied by classic Bainbridge backdrops of ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD