Paperback Fiction
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Pulse by Julian Barnes £7.99 The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in "Pulse" resonate and spark. |
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Alice by Judith Hermann £8.99 When someone very close to you dies, your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five inter-connected narratives, which tell of her life at times of loss. Suddenly it is no longer possible to say what the person looked like, how he spoke, cursed, smiled, how he lived his life. This is a work of exceptional power and beauty from one of Europe's finest writers. |
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Castle in the Pyrenees by Jostein Gaarder £7.99 Through the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place with fond memories for both of them, and their meeting is a fateful one. But is it purely coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over a few weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past... |
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Collected Stories of Lydia Davies £10.99 A paperback edition of this widely acclaimed collection of all of the author’s short stories to date from across three decades. James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American writing' and 'one of the great, strange American literary contributions'. The author has written one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her fiction and her translations of modern French writers, including Blanchot and Proust. |
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We all ran into the Sunlight by Natalie Young £7.99 Kate and Stephen, in need of a break from their hectic London life go on a sabbatical in a secluded French village. The slow pace of life there affects them in different ways. While Stephen feels increasingly restless, Kate finds herself drawn to the village and to the beautiful, derelict chateau at its heart. But soon Kate’s daily excursions over the chateau wall are spreading rumours among the locals. What she doesn't know is that the house has a terrible legacy, and her private journey of escape and self-discovery is threatening to reawaken the trauma of a family, broken apart one summer s night more than fifty years before. |
