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Day
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.95Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set about himself, his loves and the world around him will make the war itself look... more...
Original Bliss
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.00The New York Times Book Review A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing... more...
So I Am Glad
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.00The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life. M. Jennifer Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in Glasgow. She shares a house with Art and Liz, two... more...
Everything You Need
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love?s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive self-loathing.... more...
Indelible Acts
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 12.00The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most virtuosic literary stylist to appear in the British Isles since Jeanette Winterson. A. L. Kennedy?s men and women huddle in foreign hotel rooms, immobilized by travel-sickness and betrayal. They plan seductions... more...
Paradise
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When Hannah meets Robert, a kindred spirit, the two become constant companions.... more...
What Becomes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Twice selected for Granta ?s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (? Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity?? The New York Review of Books ), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine?s top ten books of the year?the internationally revered A. L. Kennedy returns with... more...
Problem Solving in Hypertension
Clinical Publishing 2009; US$ 59.95Problem Solving in Hypertension will appeal to a wide audience of physicians who routinely see patients with hypertension in clinical practice. This book presents a selection of challenging cases seen in everyday practice, highlighting learning points and recent developments made in the field. Each case is concise and formatted simply, logically leading... more...
Indelible Acts
Random House 2010; US$ 9.34The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a... more...
Paradise
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinking is frankly out of hand. Robert, a dissolute... more...









