From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London for fans of Sarah Waters Emma Donoghue & Kate Atkinson 2011 When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane where history never feels far away & move to Apricot Place Yet here too in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac she senses the past encroaching a shifting in the atmosphere a current of unseen life 1851 & Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes A family man with mouths to feed Joseph is tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes Roaming the Southwark streets he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure
- & as he struggles with his assignment he seeks answers in Apricot Place where the enigmatic Mrs Dulcimer runs a boarding house As these entwined stories unfold alive with the sensations of London past & present the two eras brush against each other
- a breath at Madeleine's neck a voice in her head
- the murmurs of ghosts echoing through time Rendered in immediate intoxicating prose The Walworth Beauty is a haunting tale of desire & exploitation isolation & loss & the faltering search for human connection; this is Michele Roberts at her masterful best


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An authentic recreation A stunning high quality replica wand as seen in Harry Potter films Comes in collectors& presentation ...

' This is international thriller writing at its best fine characters page turning suspense & a great fresh location' Peter James 336 pages Ridpath Michael (Author) ...

As they look to the stars what are they missing back home? ' Phenomenal A transcendent journey into the mysteries of space & self Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck' RUTH OZEKI author of A Tale for the Time Being The best of Helen Kane exists in space If she doesn't go back up she'll be consigned to a lesser version of herself on a planet that has also seen better days Helen is an experienced astronaut with a NASA position & a struggling grown-up daughter who needs her but when at fifty-three she is offered a place on the training programme for the first mission to Mars the most realistic simulation ever she cannot refuse a last chance to walk among the stars Her fellow astronauts are Sergei a gruff Russian whose teenage sons are less mysterious to him than they'd like to think; & Yoshi who wants to prove himself worthy of the wife he has drifted apart from The three will be enclosed for months in a tiny craft while outside their loved ones negotiate everyday life on Earth How far will the wanderers travel in the pursuit of endeavour & what will it be like to come home? Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive & sharply observed novel of ambition endeavour & family ' An astounding insightful exhilarating ride' HELEN SEDGWICK author of The Comet Seekers 'A stealthily brilliant novel A distinct shimmering vision of who we are at once simple gorgeous & profoundly moving' PETER NICHOLS author of The Rocks ...

As they look to the stars what are they missing back home? ' Phenomenal A transcendent journey into the mysteries of space & self Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck' RUTH OZEKI author of A Tale for the Time Being Helen Kane may not be the best mother in the world but she is one of the world's best astronauts & when at fifty-three she's offered a chance to train for the first crewed mission to Mars she doesn't hesitate She & her fellow astronauts Sergei & Yoshihiro will be confined in a desert facility striving to prove themselves while outside their loved ones
- Helen's actress daughter Sergei's teenage son & Yoshi's lonely businesswoman wife Madoka
- pursue complex explorations of their own All six will find themselves confronting the bonds of love & loyalty sacrifice & desire Station Eleven meets We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves in this brilliantly witty & inventive novel of ambition endeavour & family ' An astounding insightful exhilarating ride' HELEN SEDGWICK author of The Comet Seekers 'A stealthily brilliant novel A distinct shimmering vision of who we are at once simple gorgeous & profoundly moving' PETER NICHOLS author of The Rocks

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Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction A bestseller in China his novel The Three-Body Problem was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award Here is the first collection of his short fiction these stories including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners form a blazingly original ode to planet earth
- its pasts & its futures Liu's fictions take the reader to the edge of the universe & the end of time to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined With a melancholic & keen understanding of human nature Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason navigate & above all survive in a desolate cosmos
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Cixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author & one of the most important voices in world SF His novel The Three-Body Problem was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award Here is the first collection of his short fiction eleven stories including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners form a blazingly original ode to planet earth its pasts & its futures ...

Cixin Liu is China&s bestselling science fiction author & one of the most important voices in world SF His novel The Three-Body Problem was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award Here is the first collection of his short fiction eleven stories including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners form a blazingly original ode to planet earth its pasts & its futures ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Rattle 2 Wish I Could 3 Fire & Water 4 If I Fall 5 Change For The Good 6 Devil 7 Biting Through The Wires 8 Wild Silence 9 Laid In The Ground 10 Burning Bridges 11 Heartbreak Hotel 12 1 Iona ...

' Fresh energetic & completely hilarious The Wangs vs the World is my favorite debut of the year' Jami Attenberg author of Saint Mazie & The Middlesteins Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US Gone are the houses the cars & the incredible lifestyle Faced with this loss he decides to take his family on a trip to China & attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter Saina Charles takes his other two children out of schools that he can no longer afford & packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed
- along with their wealth-addicted stepmother Barbra But with his son waylaid by a much older temptress in New Orleans his wife ready to defect for a set of 1000-thread-count sheets & an epic smash-up in North Carolina Charles may have to choose between the old world & the new between keeping his family intact & finally finally fulfilling his dream of China
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