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Bushnell, Candace

Contemporary

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Ahab's Daughter

James Thackara

This is a collection of short stories in which the author conjures up nightmares of the unexpected from the everyday world. It is written by the author of "Babies in Rhinestones", "A Bowl of Cherries", "Redhill Rococo", "Music Upstairs" and "An Advent Calendar".

Dreams of Dead Womens Handbags

shena-mackay

Size takes its title from its hero, Sizemore Brandon, a gentle if criminal giant and sidekick to Pecos Jimmy, a Dallas racketeer majoring in gambling. When Size is called to testify against his boss, Jimmy decides the time has come to dispense with his services permanently.

Size

A. W. Gray

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

This is another novel by the author of "Foreign Affairs".

Truth About Lorin Jones

Alison Lurie

1st trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

M31: A Family Romance (Abacus Books)

Stephen Wright

Literary

<p>Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live chickens in front of a Carnival audience. This she gave up for doting motherhood, because she had her fairground- owning husband had a money spinning idea. Throughout each pregnancy Lil gobbles pesticides, experiments with drugs and douses herself with radiation to ensure that she prodcues infants grotesque enough to keep the turnstiles clicking. She does. Arturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac, Electra and Iphigenia are musically gifted Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is possessed of stange telekinetic powers. Their story- by turns shocking, tender, touching and cruel- is narrated by their sister Olympia. She is a bald, hunchbacked, albino dwarf.</p>

Geek Love

Katherine, Dunn

A family saga. Fiction in English American writers, 1945-

The Rattlesnake Stradivarius (Abacus Books)

Teresa Kennedy

In a futuristic America, where the free world is now predicated on non-freedom of action, the Zappers execute the dangerous and beautiful manoeuvre known as double-helix fall in their sky kites - the most flagrant expression of the will and law-breaking.

Double Helix Fall (Abacus Books)

Neil Ferguson

<p>For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; and the awesome scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka's gross misuse of the station's official stamps upon the telegraphist's anatomy. Beside these, Milos's part in the plan for the ammunition train seems a simple affair. CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism which fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of today.</p>

Closely Observed Trains

Bohumil Hrabal

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