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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Death Comes to Pemberley in Books

Oct 7, 2020  
Death Comes to Pemberley
Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry
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One would expect something amazing to come from the late, world-famous murder mystery writer P.D. James taking on a sequel to Jane Austen's most beloved novel "Pride & Prejudice." Could this be a match made in heaven or just a literary crime? Find out from my review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2013/10/18/a-match-made-in-heaven-or-a-literary-crime/
  
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 5, 2017
The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Guardian's Books by Kazuo Ishiguro

The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

8.1 (17 Ratings) Rate It

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...

      
      
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John Waters recommended My Prizes: An Accounting in Books (curated)

 
My Prizes: An Accounting
My Prizes: An Accounting
Thomas Bernhard | 2010 | Biography
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"Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth! The Austrian intellectual sourpuss hilariously rejects every literary award he was ever given. Refusal as an art form."

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Alison Bechdel recommended Possession in Books (curated)

 
Possession
Possession
A.S. Byatt | 2013 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"I am a sucker for campus novels, and this is one of the best, even though it has some pretty scathing things to say about feminist literary criticism."

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Jay McInerney recommended Lost Illusions in Books (curated)

 
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions
Honore de Balzac | 1837 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"Boy comes to the city to be a great writer; life ensues. A panoramic view of mid-19th-century Paris, with all its literary, erotic and political intrigues."

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