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The End Of Mr Y
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2008-06-12
The End Of Mr Y written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-12 with Fiction categories.
'Ingenious and original' Philip Pullman If you knew a book was cursed, would you still read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time-travel.
The End Of Mr Y
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The End Of Mr Y written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
IF YOU KNEW A BOOK WAS CURSED, WOULD YOU READ IT? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace. With Mr Y under her arm, Ariel is thrust into an adventure of faith, physics, love, death, and everything in between. Part gothic mystery, part time-travelling love story, The End of Mr Y lies somewhere between Shadow of the Wind and Dr Who. Scarlett Thomas sends us on a wild and irresistible quest into our deepest selves and our biggest questions.
Oligarchy
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Oligarchy written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Fiction categories.
From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in—and be thin—at their all–girls boarding school It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Tash finds herself thrown into the school's unfamiliar, moneyed world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders, and Instagram angst. The halls echo with the story of Princess Augusta, the White Lady whose portraits—featuring a hypnotizing black diamond—hang everywhere and whose ghost is said to haunt the dorms. It's said that she fell in love with a commoner and drowned herself in the lake. But the girls don't really know anything about the woman she was, much less anything about one another. When Tash's friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, the routines of the school seem darker and more alien than ever before. Tash must try to stay alive—and sane—while she uncovers what's really going on. Darkly hilarious, Oligarchy is Heathers for the digital age, a Prep populated with the teenage children of the European elite, exploring youth, power, and affluence. Scarlett Thomas captures the lives of these privileged young women, in all their triviality and magnitude, seeking acceptance and control in a manipulative world.
Our Tragic Universe
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2010-09-01
Our Tragic Universe written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Fiction categories.
This “delightfully whimsical novel riffs on the premise that ordinary lives stubbornly resist the tidy order that a fiction narrative might impose on them” (Publishers Weekly). Can a story save your life? Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend’s only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. But who wants to live forever? Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what’s the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever? Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas’s trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.
The Seed Collectors
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2017-04-25
The Seed Collectors written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Fiction categories.
A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a "treasurehouse of detail" revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human.
Dragon S Green
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-05-30
Dragon S Green written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Limited"--Title page verso.
Monkeys With Typewriters
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Monkeys With Typewriters written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Stories are everywhere... Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read and write better.
Popco
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-01-05
Popco written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-05 with Fiction categories.
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers.
If He Had Been With Me
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Author : Laura Nowlin
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-04-02
If He Had Been With Me written by Laura Nowlin and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Dead Clever
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
Release Date : 2004
Dead Clever written by Scarlett Thomas and has been published by Justin, Charles & Co. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Lily's interest in crime fiction not only lands her a job at a local college, but helps when she becomes mired in the deaths of two students.