Spurious - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

Lorna & Tristan- Rocks and Flowers in a Box

The Map and the Territory

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons. Jed Martin is an artist. His first pho...

The Bogman

Orphaned as a child, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo in West Galway, to live under the rule of his tyrannical grandfather. Cahal...

The Caravaners

Elizabeth von Arnim's eighth novel is a sharp contrast to the sunny optimism of her first best-seller Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898) and her later hit The Enchanted April (1922, adapted severa...

Transformations of Circe

Beginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is conne...

Paris, Capital of Modernity

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevard...

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Historical Fiction

Whether set in ancient Egypt, Feudal Japan, the Victorian Age, or Civil War-era America, historical fiction places readers squarely at the centre of fascinating times and places, making it one of the...

Cobweb

The Gulf War is imminent and there's something mighty strange going on in the Agriculture Department of East Iowa University. When an Arab student turns up drunk - and dead - in the lake, redneck Depu...