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For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values o...
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
From the time he was three or four, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, much to his distress, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - such as a tendency to obsessively dismantle radios and dig f...
House of Meetings
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "Hou...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and...
Aesop's Fables
The original "Aesop Fables", introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Over two hundred familiar tales from "Look Before You Leap" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointed moral. Puffin Classics come with additional and material including auth...
Dear Life
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca...
The Sequin Star
'This is impossible. I must be dreaming. Why does the newspaper have a date that is more than eighty years ago?' Claire finds a sequin star among her grandmother's treasures. Why does she own such a cheap piece? The mystery deepens when the brooch hurtles Claire back in time to 1932. Claire finds herse...
Questions Children Ask and How to Answer Them
Where did I come from? What happens when you die? What's divorce? From the moment children can formulate questions they begin to bombard their parents with "Why?" "What?" "Where" and "How?" Naturally curious they often catch us off guard leaving us unsure of how to answer their questions with an appropr...
A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse
With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. "This is real food: delicious, honest recipes that celebrate the beauty of picking what is ripe and in season, and capture the ess...
Last Stop Tokyo
'A fine debut - fast-paced and bleak, with a vivid setting and gut-wrenching twists.' MICK HERRON '(An) impressive first thriller . . . the action is fast, copious and often unexpected.' The Times 'The vivid setting and skilfully plotted story is compelling and hard to put down.'Daily Express 'One of th...
Inside Story
A magisterial, inventive and witty modern classic - Amis' autobiographical novel and arguably his most important masterpiece to date - the companion volume to EXPERIENCE 'The Mick Jagger of literature' Daily TelegraphLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere...
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