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Stories
by William Trevor
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by John Banville
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsJohn Banville, the Man Booker Prizewinning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves
by Colm Toibin
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsFrom the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction.
by Thomas Lynch
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsHeart-rending stories of life and death: a debut fiction collection by the award-winning author of The Undertaking.
by J M Coetzee
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsSummertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.
by John Updike
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsJohn Updikes first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Fathers Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
by Per Petterson
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsWe were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.
by Frank Delaney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsFrom a land famous for storytelling comes an epic novel that captures the intimate, passionate texture of the Irish spirit.
by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsHere are the infinite betrayals and surprises of lovebetween men and women, between friends, between parents and childrenthat are the stuff of all our lives.
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