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Description: Named a Best Historical Fiction of 2020 Pick by the New York Times A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history and the bittersweet complexity of love. England, 1959: two young soldiers—Drummond and Carter—form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doom Town," a training center that recreates the aftermath of atomic warfare. The experience will haunt the...
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Description: Stuart Evers, the author of the critically acclaimed, prize-winning collection Ten Stories About Smoking returns with eleven unforgettable stories of parental love and parental mistakes. Set in the past, present and future, these short stories are unified by their compassion, animated by the unsaid, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary. Your Father Sends...
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Description: Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of England. U.S. immigration know him as Joe Novak. And at the Valhalla, the mysterious complex in Vegas where he sells lofty ambition and dark desires, he goes by Mr Jones. Since the age of eighteen, Mark has been running away, and hard. Away from everything that is flat and dull and ordinary: his market town. Away from dis...
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Description: Ten stories of allure, betrayal, nostalgia, solitude, seduction, damage, desire and loss; of silence broken by the click of a lighter; insomnia defined by a glowing ember; a magician's trick; a lover's scent; a final wish. These are stories that go to the heart of things. 'In this remarkable collection, Stuart Evers winds a course through worlds of yearning, secrets and mortification in prose as l...
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Description: Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like a clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will diverge and disperse into a balanced ecosystem of humans and ‘robjects’ (robotic objects). Somewhere in between, we humans will have to change alsoâ€...
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Description: Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021 ‘Extraordinary’ – Spectator ‘Powerful’ – Guardian ‘Spellbinding’ – The Tablet As the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed beyond measure when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with James Carter, a rich and well-connected fellow national serviceman. Carter leads him to Doom Tow...
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Description: Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, twenty authors have assembled to re-imagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the a...
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Description: Zehn Geschichten, die sich entzünden, glühen und noch lange im Raum schweben, Geschichten, die Momente der Klarheit im tiefsten Nebel suchen, die von Einsamkeit handeln, von Schuld und Verführung, von der Stille, die das Klicken eines Feuerzeugs zerbricht, von schlaflosen Nächten, die von glimmender Asche durchglüht sind, von der Suche nach einem unbekannten Halbbruder, einem ungewöhnlichen Junggesellenabschied, einem wahllos weg geschnipsten Streichholz mit unabsehbaren Folgen, einer unglücklichen Familienzusammenkunft und einer letzten Zigarette.
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Description: «Ogni racconto è perfetto per portare un po' di colore e immaginazione nella nostra giornata.» The Guardian «Vero e scioccante. Ecco un libro che non solo dà più senso alla vita, ma delizia la mente.» Irish Times «Evers evita il luogo comune e illumina la sua scrittura con scintille di sorpresa.» Independent on Sunday Sì, sono storie sul fumo, e ci sono indubbiamente molte sigarette in q...
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