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The Mercy Boys
By John BURNSIDE, JOHN BURNSIDE, Burnside, John
Four Scottish men meet every day in their local pub and drink themselves senseless, that is until their world falls apart when one of the men drifts off into a bizarre trap and another commits an a...
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A Summer Of Drowning
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers.At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the...
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Lie About My Father
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
My father told lies all his life and, because I knew no better, I repeated them. Lies about everything, great and small, were the very fabric of my world. The lie in the title of this astonishing...
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The Glister
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the...
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On Henry Miller: Or, How To Be An Anarchist
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
**An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller—and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape “the air-conditioned nightmare” of the modern world** The American writer Henry Mil...
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Un Mensonge Sur Mon Père
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
Mon père a passé sa vie a dire des mensonges et, parce que je ne savais pas faire autrement, je les ai répétés. Mon monde était un tissu de mensonges, grands et petits, sur tout. L'infarctus qui l'...
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L'Été Des Noyés
By Catherine Richard, John Burnside, Burnside, John
Dans une région très septentrionale de la Norvège, quasiment déserte, un endroit magnifique et spectral, où l’hiver est sombre et enneigé et l’été miraculeusement doux et radieux. Comme généralem...
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On Henry Miller: Or, How To Be An Anarchist
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
**An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller—and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape “the air-conditioned nightmare” of the modern world** The American writer Henry Mil...
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Lie About My Father
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundl...
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The Dumb House
By John Burnside, Burnside, John
In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired. As the y...
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