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“ashok ferrey”

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  • The Unmarriageable Man

    A Novel

    by Ashok Ferrey ...
    Sanjay de Silva lives in Colombo, under the thumb of a controlling Sri Lankan father, having lost his English mother at an early age. When his father is diagnosed with cancer, he feels the ground shifting under his feet, the balance of power realigning. Though it is something he has dreamed of all his life, he is uneasy when it happens. Learning that he is entitled to live in England-thanks to his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Hanging with the Elephant

    A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation

    by Michael Harding ...
    'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday TimesFrom the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking to S**trangers and On Tuesdays I'm A Buddhist**'In public or on stage, it's different. I'm fine. I have no bother talking to three hundred peopl. ... Read more

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  • Nagasaki

    by Eric Faye ...
    Translated by Emily Boyce ...
    In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home.But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal?Based on real-life events, this prize-winning novel is a moving ... Read more

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  • The Time of Our Lives

    by Robert Dessaix ...
    What’s the key to the art of growing older well? Is it an art that anyone can cultivate? How should we confront dying and death in a secular age? What about sex when we’re older? What about loneliness? (And, for that matter, what about facelifts?)At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose ... Read more

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  • Record of a Night too Brief

    by Hiromi Kawakami ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    Series Book 3 - Japanese Novellas
    Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary writers—for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana YoshimotoIn a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest ... Read more

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  • A River Called Time

    A Novel

    by Courttia Newland ...
    A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.Short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award"A dystopian multiverse imagined at thrilling scale . . . Extraordinary . . . The excitement lies largely in its ideas about power and personal responsibility." — Times Literary SupplementThe Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly ... Read more

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  • The Hunting Gun

    by Yasushi Inoue ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersThe Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love. First viewed through the eyes of Shoko, who learns of the affair through reading her mother's diary, then through the eyes of Midori, who had ... Read more

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  • Indian Summer

    by Will Randall ...
    While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a wonderful life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna (3 hours from Bombay) he begins work teaching English at a slum school. Most of the children are orphans or parentless (one lost his parents four years ... Read more

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  • Foreigners, Drunks and Babies

    11 Stories

    by Peter Robinson ...
    The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand ... Read more

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  • The Widow's Tale

    by Mick Jackson ...
    A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern.She's not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How the Dead Live

    by Will Self ...
    Series series Will Self
    Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely ... Read more

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  • Black Bread White Beer

    by Niven Govinden ...
    OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAmal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is a journey that will push their relationship – once almost perfect – towards possible collapse.In this, his latest novel, Govinden casts a critical eye on a society in which, in spite of never-ending ... Read more

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