An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full …
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1. Mrs Fox
By: Sarah Hall
4.15
Format: 399 pages, ebook
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more
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- literary fiction
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2. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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3. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
By: Thom Jones
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more
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4. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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5. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
6. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
7. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
8. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
9. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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10. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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11. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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12. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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13. Fairy Tales
By: Marianne Moore
3.25
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
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14. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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15. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more
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16. The Lydia Steptoe Stories
By: Djuna Barnes
3.38
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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17. The Victim
By: P.D. James
3.76
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more
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18. Ghostly Stories
By: Celia Fremlin
3.65
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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19. An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- zimbabwe
- short stories
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- african literature
20. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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21. Three Types of Solitude
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.46
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
