Prize and the passion

Prize and the Passion

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Stone Blind: longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Natalie Haynes

<p>** Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 ** In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. 'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter 'Beautiful and moving' - Neil Gaiman via Twitter 'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, ou...

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All The Names

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jos© SaramagoSenhor Jos© is a lonely civil se

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The Modern Fairies

'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentWhy don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a...

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The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley

<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVELFor fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'Original, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by...

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The Age of Innocence - Wharton Edith

Anotace: In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton`s The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I "Golden Age" of upper-class society in New York and is framed by society`s strict moral code. When soon-to-be-wed Newland Archer finds himself enraptured by his bride...

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Tawada Yoko

Anotace: A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of TokyoMitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose h...

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Yoko Tawada

<p>A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose ...

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World´s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham

<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster ...

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Room Made of Leaves

A beautifully wrought novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted and Women Prize-winning Australian novelist Kate Grenville - tells a story of passion an

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Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

'A cracking historical novel – with a twinge of the surreal – about passion and obsession' The TimesSHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 201

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Silken Net

A compelling story of passion, loyalty and the dangers of an obsessive relationship by the Booker Prize-longlisted and bestselling author Melvyn Bragg

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Painted Cage

Longlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and based on a true story, this is Meira ChandÂ’s ravishing masterpiece of one womanÂ’s passion and downfall

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Harafish

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly "The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with "The Harafish, an epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generatio...

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Learned By Heart - Emma Donoghue

'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' – Independent'Donoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' – The GuardianThe heartbreaking story of the love of two women – Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine – from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. In 1805...

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Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee

Anotace: From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - `Scout´ - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were tra...

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Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee

<p>From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were tran...

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Churchill Factor - Boris Johnson

<p>The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and written in conjunction with the Churchill Estate, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on th...

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