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2008-05-29 Faber & Faber

The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

Angus Wilson

Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of fiction's great female creatures', Meg Eliot is a powerful heroine who inspired readers when she first appeared in 1958.

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2008-05-29 Faber & Faber

The Night of Wenceslas

Lionel Davidson

ロンドンの若者ニコラス・ホイッスラーが、思いがけない依頼をきっかけに冷戦下のプラハへ送り込まれ、諜報の渦に巻き込まれていく。軽妙な語り口の中に、疑心と緊張がじわじわと高まるデビュー長編。

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2008-05-27 Random House Books for Young Readers

The Crossroads: A Haunted Mystery

Chris Grabenstein

ザック、父親、そして新しい継母は、新しい家に暗い歴史があることを知らずに、父親の故郷に戻ってきたところです。 50年前、狂気の殺人者が近くの交差点で事故を起こし、40人の罪のない命が奪われました。彼は激しい事故で車が木に衝突して死亡し、それ以来彼の邪悪な魂が木に住み着いています。巨大な嵐の中、稲妻が木に落ち、霊が解放され、悪事はまだ終わっていないと判断する。。。ザックは彼の視界にいます。受賞歴のあるスリル...

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2008-05-20 Random House Publishing Group

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.

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