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A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of ... Read more

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A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of
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Don't miss Georgina Harding's newest novel "The Painter of Silence" available in September, 2012.It is 1961, and the world is in black and white. Eight-year-old Anna watches the Cold War unfold on her television set and builds precarious houses of cards on the sitting-room carpet. Her older brother Peter glues together German bombers and hangs them from his bedroom ceiling, while their mother ... Read more

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Don't miss Georgina Harding's newest novel "The Painter of Silence" available in September, 2012.It is 1961, and the world is in black and white. Eight-year-old Anna watches the Cold War unfold on her television set and builds precarious houses of cards on the sitting-room carpet. Her older brother Peter glues together German bombers and hangs them from his bedroom ceiling, while their mother
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It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, ... Read more

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It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart,
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2021

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A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night disco…A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow traveller on a night train to Kiev…An unusually well-informed naturalist is eyed with suspicion by his comrades on a forest exhibition with a higher purpose…The stories shortlisted for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award with ... Read more

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A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night disco…A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow traveller on a night train to Kiev…An unusually well-informed naturalist is eyed with suspicion by his comrades on a forest exhibition with a higher purpose…The stories shortlisted for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award with
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Bloomsbury presents The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding, read by Gareth Armstrong‘Harding's exquisite novel is a masterpiece of mood and location ... a profound meditation on survival, atonement and faith' Daily Telegraph‘Deeply affecting ... The tale of his isolation contains scenes of devastating pathos' New York TimesAugust, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into t ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding, read by Gareth Armstrong‘Harding's exquisite novel is a masterpiece of mood and location ... a profound meditation on survival, atonement and faith' Daily Telegraph‘Deeply affecting ... The tale of his isolation contains scenes of devastating pathos' New York TimesAugust, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into t
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Bloomsbury presents Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding, read by Sian ThomasSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with which he can draw. Slowly, painstakingly, memories appear on the page.The memories
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In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head back toward home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. For Cave has bet the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island. Alone.His shipmates sail away, the days shorten, and the cold weather moves in. Thomas Cave faces months of ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents The Gun Room by Georgina Harding, read by Antonia Beamish.A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding'Georgina Harding’s novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose' GuardianThe memory of war will stay with a ... Read more

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In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. Cave has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island—alone.His shipmates sail away, the days shorten, and the cold weather moves in. Thomas Cave faces months of ... Read more

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In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. Cave has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island—alone.His shipmates sail away, the days shorten, and the cold weather moves in. Thomas Cave faces months of
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Discover an astonishing true story of resilience and triumph that will inspire you.Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to ... Read more

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The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the
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