A River in Egypt
By: David Means
3.07
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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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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3. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
By: Tim Burton
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burtonhas … 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. The Inner Room
By: Robert Aickman
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more
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6. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
7. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
8. Birthday Girl
By: Haruki Murakami
3.57
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if t… read more
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"She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put …"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
"Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really…"-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl
9. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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10. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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11. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
12. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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13. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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14. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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15. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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16. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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17. 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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18. 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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19. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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20. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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21. A River in Egypt
By: David Means
3.07
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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