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Check into Hotelworld where the guests are about to experience a long dark night of the soul
Remember you must live.
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead.
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The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber t read moreSynopsis
Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, st read moreAbout the Book: There But for the
Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling "There but for the"...'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet a read more
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Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poigna read more
Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world
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From her relationships to surrealism, from magical realism to her humor, from politics to her grappling with the literary legacies of Virginia Woolf and Marquis de Sade, this distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here h read more
Drawing upon a pioneering filmmaker's poetry collections, short stories, magazine articles, and unpublished notebooks, this collection contains the full range of Margaret Tait's writing. As it discusses Tait as filmmaker and writer in t read more
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house read more
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