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The Swimming-Pool Library
Written by Alan Hollinghurst
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72256-4 (0-679-72256-4)
The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The book focuses on two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life... Read more >
Written by Alan Hollinghurst
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72256-4 (0-679-72256-4)
The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The book focuses on two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life... Read more >
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Written by Conn Iggulden
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33951-3 (0-385-33951-8)
"...[B]rilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction....Building on the fragment of Genghis's life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and 'unforgiving land' and the enigmatic young man—charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable of 'utter ruthlessness'—who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order."—Publishers Weekly, starred... Read more >
Written by Conn Iggulden
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33951-3 (0-385-33951-8)
"...[B]rilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction....Building on the fragment of Genghis's life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and 'unforgiving land' and the enigmatic young man—charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable of 'utter ruthlessness'—who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order."—Publishers Weekly, starred... Read more >
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An Artist of the Floating World
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72266-3 (0-679-72266-1)
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72266-3 (0-679-72266-1)
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
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Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45578-9 (0-307-45578-5)
From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.
With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor... Read more >
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45578-9 (0-307-45578-5)
From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.
With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor... Read more >
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A Pale View of Hills
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)
The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)
The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where... Read more >
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The Remains of the Day
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-96144-0 (0-307-96144-3)
An elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-96144-0 (0-307-96144-3)
An elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and a new introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait... Read more >
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The Remains of the Day
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73172-6 (0-679-73172-5)
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73172-6 (0-679-73172-5)
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
The Unconsoled
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73587-8 (0-679-73587-9)
The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73587-8 (0-679-73587-9)
The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the... Read more >
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When We Were Orphans
A Novel
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72440-4 (0-375-72440-0)
“When We Were Orphans will linger in the mind as an often fascinating, imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Renowned London dectective Christopher Banks was born in Shanghai... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72440-4 (0-375-72440-0)
“When We Were Orphans will linger in the mind as an often fascinating, imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Renowned London dectective Christopher Banks was born in Shanghai... Read more >
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Exodus
Written by Lars Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-182-9 (1-61219-182-7)
A satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.
Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma–called “Uproarious” by the New York Times Book Review–return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.
With... Read more >
Written by Lars Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-182-9 (1-61219-182-7)
A satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.
Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma–called “Uproarious” by the New York Times Book Review–return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.
With... Read more >
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Abandon
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3085-9 (1-4000-3085-4)
Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally... Read more >
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3085-9 (1-4000-3085-4)
Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally... Read more >
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The Making of Henry
Written by Howard Jacobson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7861-5 (1-4000-7861-X)
From one of England’s most highly regarded novelists—winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize—a ravishing, mordantly funny novel about a man so temperamentally opposed to the world in the twenty-first century that he nearly misses out on the happiness that one woman — and one... Read more >
Written by Howard Jacobson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7861-5 (1-4000-7861-X)
From one of England’s most highly regarded novelists—winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize—a ravishing, mordantly funny novel about a man so temperamentally opposed to the world in the twenty-first century that he nearly misses out on the happiness that one woman — and one... Read more >
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Death Comes to Pemberley
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95065-9 (0-307-95065-4)
In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy’s impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, are favorable. And preparations for their... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95065-9 (0-307-95065-4)
In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy’s impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, are favorable. And preparations for their... Read more >
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Death Comes to Pemberley
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95985-0 (0-307-95985-6)
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95985-0 (0-307-95985-6)
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together... Read more >
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A Taste for Death
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9647-3 (1-4000-9647-2)
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9647-3 (1-4000-9647-2)
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the... Read more >
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The Rapture
Written by Liz Jensen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52821-4 (0-385-52821-3)
An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink.
It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights. All across the world, freak weather patterns—and the life-shattering catastrophes they entail—have become the norm. The twenty-first century has entered a new... Read more >
Written by Liz Jensen
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52821-4 (0-385-52821-3)
An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink.
It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights. All across the world, freak weather patterns—and the life-shattering catastrophes they entail—have become the norm. The twenty-first century has entered a new... Read more >
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Shards of Memory
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47723-9 (0-385-47723-6)
A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family’s lives for four generations... Read more >
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47723-9 (0-385-47723-6)
A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family’s lives for four generations... Read more >
Legacy
Written by Alan Judd
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3081-1 (1-4000-3081-1)
From award-winning author Alan Judd comes a gripping espionage novel set during the height of the Cold War. Capturing the tenor of 1970s London with assuredness on par with that of the genre's greats, Judd has crafted an extraordinary story about a young spy who discovers some shocking truths about his... Read more >
Written by Alan Judd
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3081-1 (1-4000-3081-1)
From award-winning author Alan Judd comes a gripping espionage novel set during the height of the Cold War. Capturing the tenor of 1970s London with assuredness on par with that of the genre's greats, Judd has crafted an extraordinary story about a young spy who discovers some shocking truths about his... Read more >
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Trumpet
A Novel
Written by Jackie Kay
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70463-5 (0-375-70463-9)
WINNER OF THE 1998 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE
"Supremely humane... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love."—The New York Times Book Review
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jackie Kay
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70463-5 (0-375-70463-9)
WINNER OF THE 1998 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE
"Supremely humane... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love."—The New York Times Book Review
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant... Read more >
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The Good Times
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 15, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49580-6 (0-385-49580-3)
Follow the rebirth of Scottish literature from one of the finest current English writers. "The Good Times" is a humorous and dazzling collection of short stories that continues a tradition of portraying ordinary people dealing with their everyday lives. These twenty first-person narratives introduce an assortment of men encountering life and... Read more >
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 15, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49580-6 (0-385-49580-3)
Follow the rebirth of Scottish literature from one of the finest current English writers. "The Good Times" is a humorous and dazzling collection of short stories that continues a tradition of portraying ordinary people dealing with their everyday lives. These twenty first-person narratives introduce an assortment of men encountering life and... Read more >
Mo Said She Was Quirky
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-600-3 (1-59051-600-1)
James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize—winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen–a sister, a mother, a daughter–a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these... Read more >
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-600-3 (1-59051-600-1)
James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize—winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen–a sister, a mother, a daughter–a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these... Read more >
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Translated Accounts
A Novel
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49582-0 (0-385-49582-X)
In Translated Accounts, the Booker Prize-winning author of How Late it Was, How Late, offers us a harrowing glimpse into a realm where power is unchecked and liberties are few or nonexistent. Taking us into an unnamed territory that appears to be under military rule, Kelman creates a world that many... Read more >
A Novel
Written by James Kelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49582-0 (0-385-49582-X)
In Translated Accounts, the Booker Prize-winning author of How Late it Was, How Late, offers us a harrowing glimpse into a realm where power is unchecked and liberties are few or nonexistent. Taking us into an unnamed territory that appears to be under military rule, Kelman creates a world that many... Read more >
Day
Written by A. L. Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38631-1 (0-307-38631-7)
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
Written by A. L. Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38631-1 (0-307-38631-7)
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
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