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Colin Barrett
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Brought to you by Penguin.
From the prize-winning author of Young Skins, comes Homesickness—a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.
In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd. A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't simply lay in wake. A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.
A true follow-up to his electrifying debut collection, Homesickness marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.
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The Wicked Girls
- De: Alex Marwood
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,826
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,465
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,461
On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want to like these girls...
- De Lesley en 08-30-13
De: Alex Marwood
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale
- A Novel
- De: Graham Joyce
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 609
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 544
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 543
Twenty years ago, 16-year-old Tara Martin disappeared from a small town in the heart of England. Now, her sudden return and the mind-bending tale of where she’s been will challenge our very perception of the truth. For 20 years after Tara Martin disappeared, her parents and her brother, Peter, lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. Then suddenly on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents’ home, and there, dishevelled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It’s a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara’s story just does not add up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Well Done
- De Amanda en 07-11-12
De: Graham Joyce
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: Gideon Emery
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 150
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story Teller
- De Dorothy en 09-07-14
De: William Boyd
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High Dive
- De: Jonathan Lee
- Narrado por: Doyle Gerard
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 90
Taking us inside one of the 20th century's most ambitious assassination attempts - "making history personal", as one character puts it - High Dive moves between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the armed struggle between the Irish Republican Army and those loyal to the UK government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Humor? Not Funny.
- De W Perry Hall en 04-10-16
De: Jonathan Lee
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Standing by the Wall
- The Collected Slough House Novellas
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Please
- De Katy en 01-27-23
De: Mick Herron
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The Poison Tree
- De: Erin Kelly
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Successful journalist Erin Kelly has electrified readers and critics alike with her debut novel The Poison Tree. In this scintillating work, Karen and her daughter Alice have established a safe, happy life free from the madness of Karen’s past. But when Karen’s former lover Rex is released from prison, her old associations intrude upon the present - and threaten everything she holds dear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't stop listening the book.
- De Gladys en 07-29-15
De: Erin Kelly
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Resurrection Bay
- Caleb Zelic, Book 1
- De: Emma Viskic
- Narrado por: Lewis Fitzgerald
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Profoundly deaf since early childhood, Caleb has always lived on the outside - watching and picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough or a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can’t do it alone....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and great 1st book
- De William Michael Dunn en 01-27-17
De: Emma Viskic
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Wonder Boys
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 743
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 662
A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strong, early Chabon (sounds like grading wine)
- De Darwin8u en 03-09-14
De: Michael Chabon
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Elmet
- De: Fiona Mozley
- Narrado por: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 500
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Strains credibility
- De DM en 01-06-18
De: Fiona Mozley
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Tarantula
- A John Milton Short Story
- De: Mark Dawson
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 710
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 707
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- De Wayne en 06-03-16
De: Mark Dawson
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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Are You Watching Me?
- DS Claire Boyle, Book 2
- De: Sinead Crowley
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Dear Elizabeth, I've been watching you. I hope to see you...soon. Liz Cafferky is on the up. Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older men, Liz soon finds herself as the charity's face - and the unwilling darling of the Dublin media. Amidst her claustrophobic fame, Liz barely notices a letter from a new fan. But then one of the centre's clients is brutally murdered, and Elizabeth receives another, more sinister note. Running from her own ghosts, Liz is too scared to go to the police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!!
- De Brett McAteer en 03-06-19
De: Sinead Crowley
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Luther
- The Calling
- De: Neil Cross
- Narrado por: David Bauckham
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He’s a murder detective with an extraordinary case clearance rate. He’s obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad - not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. He seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things he shouldn’t - things well beyond the limits of the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scapegoat
- De David en 02-10-13
De: Neil Cross
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Everything She Forgot
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Ballantyne
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere - on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting - when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly emotional
- De RueRue en 04-09-16
De: Lisa Ballantyne