The Trees - format ePub

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow...

In Assumption, Percival Everett is on top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning.Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail...

'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' New York TimesA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for FictionPercival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure.An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (adapted into an Oscar-nominated film).The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s...

‘Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression’ New York TimesSo Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of Erasure, now...

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'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy DoyleJames is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner...

Une série de meurtres brutaux secoue la petite ville de Money, Mississippi : des hommes blancs sont retrouvés atrocement mutilés. Mais ces meurtres recèlent un mystère, car sur chaque scène de crime on...

Une série de meurtres brutaux secoue la petite ville de Money, Mississippi : des hommes blancs sont retrouvés atrocement mutilés. Mais ces meurtres recèlent un mystère, car sur chaque scène de crime on...

Doté d'une ressemblance saisissante avec l'acteur qui joue l'inoubliable protagoniste du film "Devine qui vient dîner ?", Not Sidney Poitier est un jeune homme qui, bien malgré lui, se voit bientôt acculé...

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À Plata, Nouveau-Mexique, Ogden Walker, shérif adjoint du comté, est chargé d’enquêter sur un meurtre dont il apparaît rapidement comme le principal suspect. Problème : c’est lui qui nous raconte l’histoire....

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‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow...

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Life is going nowhere for eighteen-year-old Terry Baker. Abandoned by his father, after an incident that shaped his whole childhood, Terry spends his days failing his college classes and pining after...

On Spooki Island, shadows whisper secrets, and the sea holds the echoes of the past. Javi, a sharp-witted bartender, has spent his life keeping a dangerous truth hidden— he's a wizard in a world where...

Three years ago, Ash Vale survived the annihilation of his legendary party, Brighthollow. Branded a coward and haunted by guilt, he now wanders the city of Valmaris with only a broken blade and a fractured...

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"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...