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✍ Julian Barnes 📂 Fiction 📅 1998;2009 🏛 Vintage;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 188 KB 👁 1 views

**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction** As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre conta

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✍ Julian Barnes 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2009 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 183 KB 👁 2 views

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." --*The New York Times* Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visi

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✍ Barnes, Julian 📂 Fiction 📅 1998;2009 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 201 KB 👁 2 views

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." --*The New York Times* Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visio

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✍ Barnes, Julian 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Einaudi 🌐 Italian ⚖ 194 KB 👁 1 views

Sir Jack Pitman, un miliardario di dubbie origini, compra un'isola e vi ricostruisce il meglio dell'Inghilterra: i turisti possono ammirare il Big Ben la mattina, visitare Westminster di pomeriggio, recarsi a Stonehenge di sera... Pitman importa perfino delle attrazioni vive e vegete: la stessa fa

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

✍ Brock Clarke 📂 Fiction 📅 2006;2015 🏛 Algonquin Books 🌐 English ⚖ 241 KB 👁 2 views

A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new li

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✍ Jonathan Coe 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd;Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 333 KB 👁 1 views

A witty and incisive state-of-the-nation novel from the acclaimed author of _Number 11, The Rotter's Club_ and _What a Carve Up!_ __ Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disrupti