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A perfect first counting book by a Canadian author! Jack the yak asks all his friends to hop on his back for a ride to the fair. But everybody is just too busy! The ferrets are eating, the crabs are building, the pigs are making hay, the monkeys are scratching and the seals are snoozing. Then, suddenly, they're all ready to go but will there be room for everyone on Jack's back? Let's see: there are 10 birds, 9 caterpillars, 8 seals, 7 monkeys,...

Lonely, a young man at Edinburgh University writes letters to his mother and to his close friend Paul. He describes the city, the people he sees living there, the books he has read and the richness of his solitary life. He meets a girl, Kate, and from that moment he is found and he is lost, bewildered and inspired. Intoxicated, agonized, his love for Kate becomes all consuming, obsessive.

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina MoralesÁngela, Patricia, Marga and Nati are cousins living together in Barcelona. As women branded as disabled who share a state-subsidised flat, they must fight every day to retain their independence and find new and inventive ways - from dance to underground zines - to stop the state from managing every aspect of their lives....

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Richard and Sarah meet in London, fall in love and, after some complications, marry. To escape the rat-race - and their ex-partners - they decide to move to the countryside, and buy a cottage in the pretty Suffolk village of Worth. At first, they struggle to find friends, but then they meet Catherine, who's recently moved into the cottage next door. As a single woman, she admires their love for each other. As a couple, they admire her uncompro...

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How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a...

The history of Dartmoor, home of myth and legend, druids, prisoners and ponies. Comparable to "Under Another Sky" and "The Old Ways".

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In the attic of the house she has inherited from her grandparents, Bea finds a sealed envelope containing a manuscript written by a woman who, along with Bea's mother and thousands of other German women, was captured by the Russians in February 1945 and deported to a labour camp in Siberia. Bea starts to read it and at last, fifty years later, comes to know the circumstances leading up to her mother's death. This extraordinary, moving story of...

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Germany exists within the European Union, but Germania stretches past political frontiers. The reinvention of history is one of the characteristics of the new art and the new generation. 'The new generation of Germania', writes Max Henry in his introduction, 'can discard the chronology of their influences.

With tactile eroticism coursing through, this work presents poems that never give up hope, they exhibit a tenacious optimism - or at least a steely pragmatism - that says: we have what we are given, there is no alternative, and we all must find what joy we can in life, and in its living.

Being an unsigned band isn't a situation - it's a mental illness. Efficient and diligent, Russell doesn't fit the traditional rock-star mould, and his deeply unsigned and woefully unexceptional band are headed nowhere. To make matters worse, Russell is 'alcohol intolerant'. Enter Josh with an offer that is impossible to refuse...

Brand new novel from the author of Fight Club, which sold over 200, 000 copies. A dark reimagining of All About Eve, this is a hilarious assault on celebrity and Hollywood.