Literary / Contemporary
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Windows on the Abyss
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The death of George's mother triggers in him guilt-riddled memories of the breakup of his marriage and his subsequent neglect of both wife and mother. He relates in a polyphony of voices the build-up to a series of breakdowns and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
Trading Vincent Crow
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Vince Crow had heard somewhere that you could trade a piece of useless junk on the internet and, within a year of swapping it for better and better things, get cool stuff. Crow decided that he himself was going to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2013
American Redemption
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This is a compelling personal narrative of a young man consumed by ambition. The story contrasts humor and grief, explores how death impacts individual lives, and reveals how excessive greed brings ruin in its wake. Sex and fidelity are mixed...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2012
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A Matter of Life and Death
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When advertising maverick Farren Mortimer sets up AMOLAD to bring the funeral business into the 21st century his ideas capture the public's attention as he cashes in on the new zeitgeist of conspicuous public mourning. Appointed as the government's 'bereavement...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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The Celestial Sea A Sacred Romance and Moral Quest
A glorious, exciting and heart-wrenching tale, The Celestial Sea is the first book in a new series. This is the story of an English housewife and mother and an artistic Kiwi man; musician, woodsman and teacher, who find themselves embracing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2012
The Tennis Player from Bermuda
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In summer 2012, the world will focus on Wimbledon twice: the 126th Lawn Tennis Championships starting on June 25, and the London 2012 Olympic tennis competition starting on July 28. Here is a novel set at Wimbledon 50 years ago...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2012
That Quiet Earth
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That Quiet Earth combines a heartbreaking love story with a stunningly accurate portrait of life as a pilot during the Great War. George Bridge has a secret that he doesn't want to carry to his grave; a wrong he did...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2012
Miss Daisy's Diaries
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Miss Daisy arrives at her new home. It’s her 70th birthday and she’s worn out, completely whacked in fact. Now that she’s getting on a bit, she hopes that now she can settle down and write her memoirs.Her Ladyship...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2012
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This is the category for writers with serious literary ambition, aspiring to be the new Zadie Smith or Martin Amis.
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