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A sublime gem of a novel' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

A sublime gem of a novel' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

Profoundly addictive and unsettling, Ceridwen Dovey's In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterful novel of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprising-about the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create and control, and the dangerous morphing of desire into obsession. Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her...

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Two people are reunited after a long period of separation, reminiscing on their tangled relationship and the dynamics of power, desire and shame that underpinned it. Fans of Patricia Highsmith are set to be absorbed in this psychologically credible thriller.

I see you. I know where you come from, and what has been done in your name.' Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one ...

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«Está escrita con un tono hipnótico y el final se cierne sobre ella con la impaciencia de los buitres sobre la carroña.» The Guardian Un presidente es derrocado por un golpe militar en un país indeterminado y, en plena vorágine de detenciones en masa, tres miembros del entorno doméstico presidencial -su barbero, su chef y su retratista- son retenidos en una remota residencia de verano.

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The souls of 10 animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. A playful and poignant short story collection from a young Australian literary talent.

An enthralling, daring collection of stories narrated by animals caught up in large-scale human wars and linked in personal or poetic ways to the great writers of their time.In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany, a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. During the siege of Sarajevo, a starving bear tell...

A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's lover watch their men from the shadows. In such precarious times, intimate relationships are as dangerous as political ones. As the old order fa...

Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer...