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  • Best British Short Stories 2024

    par Nicholas Royle, Nicholas Royle, Alan Beard, Kevin Boniface, Paul Brownsey, Claire Carroll, ECM Cheung, Jonathan Coe, Rosie Garland, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Timothy J Jarvis0, Cynan Jones1, Bhanu Kapil2, Sonya Moor3, Alison Moore4, Gregory Norminton5, Cherise Saywell6, Kamila Shamsie7, Ben Tufnell8, Charlotte Turnbull9, Cate West0 ...
    Collections Livre 0 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fourteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    par Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Collections series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... En savoir plus

    $10.13 CAD

  • The Ghost Who Bled

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    A simple act of gallantry in the Malaysian jungle spawns a lifelong feud in the Home Counties...A fading actor with a terminal illness devises a meticulous plan to leave the stage in style...A pregnant composer contemplates motherhood at the end of civilisation...Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply ... En savoir plus

    $10.13 CAD

  • Serious Things

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    In the early 1990s, at an old-fashioned boarding school, two boys form an intense friendship that will shape the course of their lives. Bruno Jackson, the shy and lonely son of British expats, is infatuated by the glamorous but troubled Anthony Blunden. Taken under the wing of an idealistic English teacher, the boys are encouraged to explore the 'more serious things' of life beyond college. But in ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Arts and Wonders

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    ARTS AND WONDERS spans a glorious canvas, peopled by werewolves, thieves, emperors, travelling players and a forger dwarf who takes a lifetime to learn the danger of illusions.Tomasso Grilli, a dwarf gifted with an extraordinary capacity for artistic forgery (and flexible morals) recounts the story of his life, from his base beginnings in Florence, through his apprenticeship to the painter ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Thumbnails

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    Thumbnails is a collection of short stories or “micrograms” in which Gregory Norminton once again experiments with form, using his stylish and witty prose to examine the nooks and crannies of our distracted lives. Witty and thought-provoking, the stories are brief but clear sketches very different people and places in very different times. Taken as a whole, the collection is an exercise in ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ghost Portrait

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    This intimate and compelling historical novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after Charles I's execution, the young Deller joins a political group too radical even for the Roundheads; ten years later, on the night of Charles II's return from exile, Deller is accused by his former friend Thomas Digby of betraying their ideals; ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Ship Of Fools

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interralated stories, running from lyrical romance to scabrous satire, by way of fairy-tale and black comedy. Often wickedly funny, always stunningly written and displaying an astonishing range of voices ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Lost Art of Losing

    par Gregory Norminton ...
    The Lost Art of Losing is a collection of aphorisms by award-winning novelist Gregory Norminton. By turns comic and despairing, jubilant and wry, they present, through fragments, a picture of the mind — and of troubling times. Gregory Norminton transforms the aphorism into something more accessible and personal. Ultimately he uses aphorisms to question everything — including the aphorism itself: ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Little Prince: New Translation

    par Antoine de Saint-Exupery ...
    Traduit par Gregory Norminton ...
    Collections series Alma Junior Classics
    Presented here in a new translation and featuring the author's own watercolour illustrations, The Little Prince has become a classic philosophical fable for young and old, as well as a global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and being translated into dozens of languages.Alma Junior Classics series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Received Ideas

    par Gustave Flaubert ...
    Traduit par Gregory Norminton ...
    A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched with darkly humorous explanations. A playful look at nineteenth-century ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Beacons

    Stories for our Not So Distant Future

    Modifié par Gregory Norminton ...
    An incredible collection of stories for our shared planet from the likes of Joanne Harris, Toby Litt and Liz JensenA riveting and provocative collection of short fiction, Beacons throws down the gauntlet to award-winning writers, challenging them to devise original responses to the climate crisis. From Joanne Harris’ cautionary tale of a world where ‘outside’ has become a thing of the past, to ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD