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A special student edition of Orwell\'s timeless fable, with an introduction and study notesWhen the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them starts to take control, and the animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.This special student edition of George Orwell’s chilling satire is specifically designed for readers who are studying the text in detail. It has extra-wide margins to leave space for notes, and includes an introduction and notes by Orwell expert Ronald Carter, character sketches, a summary, a chronology, language notes and a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis. Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0225, Διαστάσεις: 15.4x15.4cm

A brave young girl is thrust into a perilous journey to save a magical world in this sweeping, epic fantasy from an award-winning, acclaimed Uruguayan author.When ordinary, lonely Martina Valiente discovers a mysterious golden box in a forgotten room at her grandmother’s house, she is drawn into the fantastical world of Novrogod – where magic thrives and the balance between Wizardry and Darkness must be carefully maintained.But now, Novrogod is threatened by Voraz, a wizard of Darkness, and Martina learns that she is ‘The Sent One’ - a guardian of Novrogod that is destined to return to the land when it needs them the most.Along with her stepbrother Matias, Martina sets out to collect the magical items that will aid them in restoring peace and balance to Novrogod. But can she defeat Voraz once before dark magic consumes this new world? Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'My name is Eva, which means \"life\", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.\'Isabel Allende tells the sweet and sinister story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 11.4x11.4cm

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection\'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father\'s eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.\'The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cécile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cécile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences.Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cécile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 11.1x11.1cm

A special student edition of the iconic American author\'s most enduring novel, with an introduction and study notesDrifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back – and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California\'s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie becomes a victim of his own strength.This special student edition of John Steinbeck’s moving novel of friendship and inequality is specifically designed for readers who are studying the text in detail. It has extra-wide margins to leave space for notes, and includes and includes an introduction, chapter synopses and a vocabulary list by Steinbeck expert Dr Barbara Heavilin. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the King’s ghost and discovers he was murdered, he swears vengeance against the killer: his father’s brother, Claudius, who has married Hamlet’s mother and taken the throne. Furious at this betrayal, Hamlet devises a complex plot to reveal the truth and enact his revenge. But Claudius has a devious plan of his own. Together, they will bring devastation to the entire court.Hamlet is Shakespeare’s timeless story of grief and a revenge so unrelenting that by curtain’s close, all the major players are dead.Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare’s unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It – With a foreword by Talia HibbertMacbeth – With a foreword by Kat DelacorteA Midsummer Night’s Dream – With a foreword by Becky AlbertalliMuch Ado About Nothing – With a foreword by Holly BourneRomeo and Juliet – With a foreword by Jennifer Niven Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him. Mariana, the mother, is unwell and forced to relinquish her control over the home to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in one of the state-owned tourist hotels. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him. In meticulously charting the disintegration of a family, The Fallen offers a poignant reflection on contemporary Cuba and the clash of the ardent idealism of the old guard with the jaded pragmatism of the young. Σελίδες: 136, Διαστάσεις: 11.4x11.4cm

After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home: a small island off the Norwegian coast where he grew up with his sister Minna. Their foster father Johannes has just died, and he must sort through their decaying old house, the Yellow Villa. As he settles back into rural life, Andreas begins to question the shadowy history of the island itself. Owned by Jan-Heinz Kaufmann, who had been a minister in the wartime government, the island has been a summer colony for deprived evacuee children from occupied Oslo. But decades later, Kaufmann remains an elusive figure, and the ultimate purpose of his wartime refuge - and his relationship to Andreas and Minna after their parents\' sudden disappearance - remains mysterious. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A New York Times Book of the YearChosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of the migrant\'s place in the nation\'s fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he\'s in a constant state of exile Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he\'s ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags. But life keeps getting in the way - there\'s his beloved grandmother\'s illness, and a faltering friendship with his classmate Tutti, who she invites him into her private world. Wry, intimate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sandwich is a poignant depiction of the naivety and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin\'s second Japanese Novella series Meet young Amiko. She\'s one of a kind-full of life and good intentions, but with no filter or boundaries. She happily inhabits a world of her own making, oblivious to offences given or taken. But when it comes to expressions of love, where conflicting signals are hard to grasp and a heart is easily broken, there can be unintended consequences. An aching, tender depiction of belonging and loss, This is Amiko, Do You Copy? is a portrait of childhood through the eyes of an irrepressible young girl. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Successful entrepreneur A.A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer Tomoyuki Tomoyuki, who appears to have the ability to write expertly in the language of any place they go. Abrams sinks endless resources into finding the writer, but Tomoyuki Tomoyuki always manages to stay one step ahead, taking off moments before being pinned down. But how does the elusive author move from one place to the next, from one language to the next? Ingenious and dazzling, Harlequin Butterfly unfurls one puzzle after another, taking us on a mind-bending journey into the imagination. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

***A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*** By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one of America’s greatest living writers of fiction. “Hugely intelligent, funny, subtle, beautifully written, these stories reach beyond New York into the world.\"—Tessa Hadley “If our culture can produce a writer this wonderful, there must be something beautiful about us yet.”—George Saunders “[A] scintillating showcase.”-Anthony Cummins, The Observer “Shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny.”—The New York Times Now in B-format Paperback Each of the six stories that make up this new collection—Eisenberg’s first for twelve years—has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable logic and uncanny ability to conjure up the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through the lives of her characters. In her world, the forces of money, sex and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us. \"Ducks are having a literary moment.\"—The Times\' Books Bulletin “Comic, elegant and pitch perfect.”—Vanity Fair Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

· · NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB · ·____________________\'Soulful, striking and ablaze with promise\' Observer__________________At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success and sexual self-discovery. A Chinese-American girl in Paris finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead person\'s clothes. And on a winter evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a daughter across an ever-widening gulf of culture and experience.From second-generation rich kids and livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, this funny and wise debut collection upends the well-worn path of the immigrant experience to reveal a new face of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are and who they will one day become, in a world as vast and various as their ambitions.__________________\'Artful, funny, generous and empathetic\' Lauren Groff, author of Florida\'Sublimely captivating\' Vogue\'Striking, soulful and ablaze with promise.\' Observer Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

WINNER OF EDGE HILL READERS CHOICE PRIZE 2021 \'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and moving collection\' Chris Power, author of Mothers In Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem. A little girl boils endless eggs in her family\'s burnt-out flat, an isolated old woman entices a new friend with gifts of cutlery and cufflinks, and a young bride grows frustrated with her unappreciative husband, the caretaker of creaking, dilapidated Paradise Block. With a haunting sense of place and a keen eye for the absurd, these thirteen surreal stories lure us into a topsy-turvy world where fleatraps are more important than babies and sales calls for luxury coffins provide a welcome distraction. Lonely residents live in close proximity while longing for connection. Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0203, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'The Long Answer is a triumph of human portraiture, as subtle as it is seething\' Sunday Times \'There were other women, how many other women, who had felt and wanted what I\'d felt and wanted, and felt and wanted differently too. Anywhere I\'ve been and will go next, there they will be.\' Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond, and complications with Anna\'s own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the babies they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in. The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept and secrets shared. Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing, it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief, and the ways in which women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage and infertility. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0504, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

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\'Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly gifted\' - Caitlin Moran \'Simon Rich is the funniest writer alive\' - Matt Haig \'How fabulously funny\' - Lauren Laverne \'One of my favourite authors\' - B J Novak From a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a man famous and then got left behind to a gushing magazine profile of one of your favorite World War II dictators, these stories trawl through history to skewer our obsession with fame and fortune - all the way from ancient Babylon to Hollywood. What father-to-be wouldn\'t feel a little jealous when his baby outstrips his success from the womb? And what happens when a film critic is forced to live in the movies he so cruelly damned? Loved in the UK by celebs, writers and readers alike, from Lauren Laverne to Matt Haig and Caitlin Moran, Simon Rich is back with his funniest and most personal collection of stories to date. Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0704, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Now a major TV series starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi. Originally published as What in God\'s Name. How can you help mankind, when they won\'t help themselves? Welcome to Heaven Inc, and Craig\'s life. From the Sunsets Department and Geyser Regulation to the Department of Miracles, Heaven Inc has the earth covered. Unless someone is away from their desk. And these days, the CEO is kind of disillusioned. God knows he should be keeping an eye on the bad things happening on Earth, but instead he finds himself watching the Church channels on satellite TV. His first priority is the team of angels he\'s asked to get Lynyrd Skynyrd back together. Downstairs on the office floor, Eliza has been promoted from the Prayers Department to Miracles, and Craig, the only other workaholic in heaven, has to show her around. Eliza is shocked by the casual attitude of many of the angels in her new department. And she\'s furious when she discovers that God has never looked at, let alone answered, a single prayer. So she storms into God\'s office and asks Him a question that no one has ever dared to ask before. And it might just be the end of the world. Σελίδες: 176, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0328, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny\' Guardian \'Truly excellent\' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, or sharing a flat in the city or a holiday rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising Paul Dalla Rosa\'s debut collection navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage Capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity leave us further alienated and disenfranchised. Like the legendary Lucia Berlin and his contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer-and hilarious eviscerator-of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world. \'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple\' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Σελίδες: 240, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0601, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win a championship without gays on your team’, via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages. Who says lesbians can’t be funny? Σελίδες: 208, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0110, Διαστάσεις: 11.1x11.1cm

‘Engaging, gripping, addictive and completely unpredictable. An absolute must read. Ali Blood is an author to watch’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She\'s moved on Three years after her fiancé was murdered, Gemma Morgan is, at last, starting to move on with her life. He\'s long gone But just as she thinks everything is back on track, she realises the new man in her life seems to be hiding something big from her. Gemma’s hurled right back into her pit of despair, but is it just paranoia playing tricks on her? Or is he? Only this time, it isn’t grief that consumes her – it’s fearing for her life. A pacy and gripping read with a chilling twist, perfect for fans of My Lovely Wife, The Wedding Day and The Other Woman. Readers are loving The Other Fiancé… \'A great story with so many twists in it, I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this was going to play out.\' Reader review ‘An utterly stunning psychological thriller from Ali Blood that I couldn\'t devour fast enough!’ Reader review ‘What a thrilling ride from start to finish. Had everything I love in a book!’ Reader review ‘Unputdownable!’ Reader review Σελίδες: 384, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive\' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Wandering the valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel remembers the farm where he worked, his employer\'s beautiful daughters, the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there during the war, he realizes that these timeless landscapes hide terrible, savage secrets. By turns fond and evocative, seductive and troubling, The Moon and the Bonfires is a lyrical masterpiece of memory and betrayal.Translated with an Introduction by Tim Parks Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, COMING VALENTINE\'S DAY 2022 \'An absolute scorcher\' Evening Standard\'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy\'The Times\'Intimate and ultimately moving... completely absorbing\'Daily Mail\'A gripping novel exploring the tensions in an apparently idyllic marriage\' Financial Times \'A must-read\'Sydney Morning Herald\'Devotion thrilled me, made me think and moved me deeply... Irresistible\'Jonathan Safran FoerCarlo, a part-time professor of creative writing, and Margherita, an architect-turned-real estate-agent: a happily married couple in their mid-thirties, perfectly attuned to each other\'s restlessness. They are in love, but they also harbour desires that stray beyond the confines of their bedroom: Carlo longs for the quiet beauty of one of his students, Sofia; Margherita fantasises about the strong hands of her physiotherapist, Andrea.But it is love, with its unassuming power, which ultimately pulls them from the brink, aided by Margherita\'s mother Anna, the couple\'s anchor and lighthouse - a wise, proud seamstress hiding her own disappointments.But after eight years of repressed desires and the birth of a son, when the past resurfaces in the form of books sent anonymously, will love be enough to save them? A no. 1 international bestsellerWinner of the Premio Strega GiovaniShortlisted for the Premio Strega\'Powerful, delicate, exquisite\' Claudio Magris \'Masterful... The ending is just as good as that of Joyce\'s The Dead\' Corriere della Sera\'You\'ll feel like taking refuge in this book and never leaving its confines\' La Stampa\'With all-encompassing writing, Marco Missiroli opens the rooms of his characters and the streets of Milan, the thoughts and the concealed desires, makes dialogue and silences reverberate with the spontaneity of great narrators\' Il Foglio Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0308, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play’s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today\'s students at advanced school and undergraduate level. Σελίδες: 448, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0225, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.**One of Cosmopolitan\'s 25 of the best books to read this summer 2021**\"A wonderful storyteller\" Chris Whitaker \"Creepy, compelling and very well written\" Harriet Tyce\"Wonderfully creepy, twisty and compelling\" Karen Hamilton\"Masterfully paced and hauntingly written\" Anna Bailey\"Gets under your skin\" Jo Spain\"I couldn\'t put it down\" Sarah WardAt first it\'s the lie that hurts.A voicemail from her husband tells Sara he\'s arrived at the holiday cabin. Then a call from his friend confirms he never did. She tries to carry on as normal, teasing out her clients\' deepest fears, but as the hours stretch out, her own begin to surface. And when the police finally take an interest, they want to know why Sara deleted that voicemail.To get to the root of Sigurd\'s disappearance, Sara must question everything she knows about their relationship.Could the truth about what happened be inside her head?Translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0726, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.\'Captivating...intense...seductive\' GuardianA thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. Then one night, at a friend\'s tepid New Year\'s Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado. A talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in a world where everyone seems preoccupied with being \'just so\'. It is the beginning of an intense relationship, tender and violent, that will upend both women\'s lives. A literary sensation in France, All About Sarah perfectly captures the pull of a desire so strong that it blinds us to everything else.\'All About Sarah moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude, like a spun coin settling\' Observer Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent.Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death.The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway\'s imagination. As an introduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes he developed at greater length in his novels, it is a stunningly successful collection. From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 11x11cm

Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway\'s career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway\'s men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman\'s hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory - they helped establish him as one of the great literary authors of the twentieth century, and one of the best American authors of all time. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 11.1x11.1cm

In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principal preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other characters’ actions as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind.The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic. Σελίδες: 128, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0101, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by her insecurity, Mabel is pervaded by a sense of selfloathing, and feels utter revulsion for the social world she has tried so hard to impress. Written in 1924 and perhaps intended for inclusion in Mrs Dalloway, a book Woolf was working on at the time, The New Dress is here accompanied by most of the short stories she published in her lifetime, as well as six posthumously published pieces that share the milieu and some of the characters of her celebrated novel. Together, they reveal their author as one of the finest practitioners in the field of short fiction. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1203, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'An ambiguous horror story about egg donorship and the black market, it keeps the reader equally balanced between frustration and fascination. \' Daily Mail\'An intricate, textured slow-burner that paints a vivid picture of a post-Soviet state where gangsters rule and the exploitation of the female body is big business\' GuardianHelsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together - looking at their own children being raised by other people.Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, Dog Park is a keenly observed, dark and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered in a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. Oksanen brings fearless psychological acuity to this captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still hunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

From the author of Untraceable, a novel about history both personal and political, and the mysteries of the past. The Goose Fritz tells the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relentlessly into the unresolved past. His ancestor, Balthasar Schwerdt, migrated to the Russian Empire in the early 1800s, bringing with him the practice of alternative medicine and becoming captive to an erratic nobleman who had supplied dwarves, hunchbacks from Africa, and magicians to entertain Catherine the Great. Kirill\'s investigation takes us through centuries of turmoil during which none of the German\'s nine children or their descendants can escape their adoptive country\'s cruel fate. Intent on uncovering buried mysteries, Kirill searches archives and cemeteries across Europe, while pressing witnesses for keys to understanding. The Goose Fritz illuminates both personal and political history in a passion-filled family saga about an often confounding country that has long fascinated the world. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0830, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious\' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend\'Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw\' Sunday Times Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen thousand dollar advance in cash. This small fortune might solve his problems, most importantly the unbearable tension in his marriage. While his wife spends her days at work and her nights out on the town – with a lover, perhaps – Lucas is stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasizing about the one thing that keeps him going: the Uruguayan woman he recently met at a conference and who he longs to see on this trip.The Woman from Uruguay is the surprising and moving story of one transformative day in Lucas’ life. An international bestseller, it is the masterpiece of one of Latin America’s most beloved writers, translated by Man Booker International winner Jennifer Croft.\'At once a picaresque comedy and a penetrating study of a man on the verge of middle age\' Colm Toibin Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0131, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm