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Rashomon and Seventeen Other S...Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modern... Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashömon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificen more
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Paris for One and Other Storie...ELEVEN ROMANTIC TALES TO WARM YOUR HEART, FROM THE AUTHOR OF ME BEFORE YOU, AF... ELEVEN ROMANTIC TALES TO WARM YOUR HEART, FROM THE AUTHOR OF ME BEFORE YOU, AFTER YOU AND STILL MEFrom the author of THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER, now a major motion picture more
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The Penguin Book of English Sh...Introducing sixteen short stories from some of the best English writers over t... Introducing sixteen short stories from some of the best English writers over two hundred years of our history.The Penguin Book of English Short Stories celebrates the shorter format through some of the most widely more
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The Whole Story and Other Stor...A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED... A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet**'She's a genius, genuinely more
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Other Stories and Other Storie...A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Priz... A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Bold and sensitive. more
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Stories: Collected Stories`Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What`s striking ... `Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What`s striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction` Financial TimesThe complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most... more
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Survivor: A gripping and emoti...**Discover the captivating story of courage, daring and love from the No. 1 in... **Discover the captivating story of courage, daring and love from the No. 1 international bestseller Lesley Pearse'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart'** Sunday Express With her reputation in tatters, 17-year-old Mar more
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Olga's StoryOlga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberi... Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Dea more
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Life Lessons from a Brain Surg...THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*****As heard on Chris Evans' Virgin Radio*'You're ... THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*****As heard on Chris Evans' Virgin Radio*'You're amazing I could talk to you (Rahul) all day' Chris Evans'This is a gr more
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This Too Shall Pass: Stories o...JULIA SAMUEL'S LATEST BOOK, EVERY FAMILY HAS A STORY, IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDE... JULIA SAMUEL'S LATEST BOOK, EVERY FAMILY HAS A STORY, IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW'One of the most valuable books I've ever read' Adwoa Aboah more
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From Cold War to Hot Peace: Th...A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a ... A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times)In 2008, when Michael Mc Faul was asked more
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Cry Freedom: The Legendary Tru...Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has be... Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working tirelessly for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself un more
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Russian Short Stories from Pus...From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the S... From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian litera more
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Binge Trading: The real inside...What is it like to make millions before you turn 20? What drives City traders ... What is it like to make millions before you turn 20? What drives City traders to excess in their quest for extreme wealth? And what happens when they lose it all overnight? This is the first account of life in today's Square Mile, laying bare the more
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The First Person and Other Sto...**A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from th... **A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'A glorious coll more
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Lioness: The extraordinary unt...Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Goo... Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a more
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Dani's StoryNeglected beyond belief, rescued by love...Dani was so severely neglected by h... Neglected beyond belief, rescued by love...Dani was so severely neglected by her birth mother that she grew up knowing only squalor. She never went to school or the doctor, and rarely glimpsed sunlight. Desperately malnour more
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and O...This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cos... This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the more
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Remembering Rachel: A True Sto...The day Rose Callaly found her daughter Rachel's battered body was only the st... The day Rose Callaly found her daughter Rachel's battered body was only the start of her nightmares.Shortly afterwards Rose became certain that the person who had killed her beautiful daughter was Rachel's husband, Joe O'R more
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I Met Lucky People: The Story ...Their own origins myths put them at the scene of the Crucifixion, deprived of ... Their own origins myths put them at the scene of the Crucifixion, deprived of a home of their own, doomed to a life of wandering, and granted by God the right to steal from other people in order to survive. In the Middle Ages, it was believed they more
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