Glue
Yrvin Uelsh
Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, ... [ more ] |
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High Fidelity
Nik Hornbi
Penguin Books
Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong ... [ more ] |
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Fever Pitch
Nik Hornbi
Penguin Books
A famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, Fever Pitch has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a ... [ more ] |
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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Nik Hornbi
Penguin Books
In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. ... [ more ] |
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A Long Way Down
Nik Hornbi
Penguin Books
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's ... [ more ] |
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Any Human Heart
Uiliam Bojd
Penguin Books
Any Human Heart is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his ... [ more ] |
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Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atuud
"A novelist and poet of great gifts"
Guardian
A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a ... [ more ] |
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The Castle
Franc Kafka (Franz Kafka)
The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's Isolation and perplexity, his begging for ... [ more ] |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harpyr Li
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black ... [ more ] |
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Atentatyt
Iasmina Kadra
Prozorec
V pretypkan restorant v Tel Aviv vliza uzh bremenna zhena i vnezapno vzriviava bomba, koiato krie pod rokliata si. Prez celia zlovesht den doktor Amin, izraelec ot arabski proizhod, operira edna sled druga mnogobrojnite zhertvi na kyrvavoto ... [ more ] |
