Jo Baker
1) Longbourn
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Language
English
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A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, the young, unknown writer Samuel Beckett journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. He experiences the hardships in Europe during the Nazis' rise to power. Describes his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world--or in the pages of a book--when the stakes are dangerously high. When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London and the scene of a violent assault she is desperate to forget. But...
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English
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The 30 "female sexual revolutionaries" who contributed to this collection come from a wide variety of backgrounds, locales, and professions. Doctors, journalists, entrepreneurs, prostitutes, and porn stars offer their hard-won insights on subjects ranging from how to have better orgasms, exhibitionism, and bringing sex toys to the bedroom, to performance art, S/M, fetishism, and gender bending. Sex Tips and Tales from Women Who Dare is a practical...
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Language
English
Description
I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.
There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.
So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.
The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast,...