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Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, a story of friendship and betrayal.From Weimar Berlin to ...

Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.The aftermath of the fall of Paris, ...

The Origin of Violence

The Origin of Violence

Winner of the inaugural French Orange Prize in 2009 and the Prix Renaudot's livre de poche prize

During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a ...

You&I

You&I

Described as'Waiting for Godot on acid', this radiant and enigmatic novel will take you on a journey...

Padgett Powell writes:'Their conversation we may find it difficult to grasp much like they themselves. Coming to conclusions that don't conclude. To ...

The Interrogative Mood

The Interrogative Mood

Precise and beautiful, intimate and hilarious, you will never have read anything quite like it

'If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way ...