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PROTOTYPE 1 (Paperback)
Astrid Alben; Rachael Allen; Theis Anderson; Rowland Bagnall; Tara Bergin; Emily Berry; Crispin Best; Paul Buck; Jen Calleja; Thomas A Clark; Laurie Clark; Esme Creed-Miles; Emily Critchley; Jake Elliott; Laura Elliott; SJ Fowler; Amy Key, Michael Kindellan; Caleb Klaces; Gareth Damian Martin; Robert Herbert McClean; Wayne Holloway-Smith; Kirstie Millar; Catrin Morgan; Richard Price; Leonie Rushforth; Rachel Snowdon; Rebecca Tama s; Ollie Tong; Kandace Siobhan Walker; Ahren Warner; Stephen Watts; Ralf Webb; Eley Williams; Alison Honey Woods; Madeleine Wurzburger; Edited by Jess Chandler; Designed by Theo Inglis; Cover design or artwork by Catrin Morgan
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R308
Discovery Miles 3 080
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The scandalous 1960s cult classic with a foreword by Eley Williams: when Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year's Eve masquerade ball, a heady dance of seduction begins.
London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of an eighteenth-century themed masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone, mourning her youth - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious masked figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a heady dance of seduction charged by other clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an erotic frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter ...
A scandalous sensation in 1964, Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ball is a dazzling festive classic ripe to seduce a new generation of readers.
A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND
ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 __________________________ 'Joyous' SPECTATOR
'Remarkable' SUNDAY TIMES 'A playful delight... A glorious novel'
OBSERVER Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with
fictitious entries known as mountweazels penned by Peter
Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899.
It's up to young intern Mallory to uncover these mountweazels
before the dictionary can be digitised for modern readers. Lost in
Winceworth's imagination - a world full of meaningless words - will
Mallory finally discover the secret to living a meaningful life?
__________________________ 'Made me almost tearful with gratitude
that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated
pleasure ... And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and
you hold it close.' JOHN SELF 'A delight ... As funny and vivid as
Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov ... An extraordinarily
large-hearted work.' THE CRITIC 'Deft and clever, refreshing and
rewarding ... An assured and satisfying writer, her language rich
and intricate and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic
and lampoonist enough to be terribly funny.' LITERARY REVIEW '[The]
most exciting of young British writers ... Williams luxuriates in
words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention
...The Liar's Dictionary is a public joy, and Eley Williams a
free-spirited literary kook with bags of potential.' BIG ISSUE 'A
singular, hilarious, word-drunk novel, which I suspect will be seen
in the future as a classic comic novel.' DAVID HAYDEN, IRISH TIMES
'The Liar's Dictionary is the book I was longing for ... Positively
intoxicated with the joy and wonder of language ... Eley Williams
brings erudition and playfulness - and lovely sweetness - to every
page.' BENJAMIN DREYER, New York Times bestselling author of
DREYER'S ENGLISH 'This tale of lexical intrigues is an absolute joy
to read! It's gloriously inventive and playful, but with just the
right amount of heart.' LUCY SCHOLES
The stories shortlisted for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Award
with Cambridge University demonstrate how a single moment might
become momentous; how a small encounter or exchange can
irreversibly change the way others see you, or the way you see
yourself. From the struggles of two women trapped by joblessness
and addiction to the hopes of two teenage brothers embarking on a
new life without the protection of their parents, these stories
show us what happens when we fail to relate to each other as well
as the refuge that belonging affords.
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