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Product Description: Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the practical advice you need to write and publish your novel. PART 1 provides an introduction to the forms and history of the novel and helps you plan and research your masterpiece, develop characters and compelling narratives and your own authorial voice...read more
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9781780937106 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 26, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the practical advice you need to write and publish your novel.
Product Description: The driverâs job is to stay in control behind the wheel and that is all. The past is what you leave as you go. There is nothing more to it.Vasantha retired early, bought himself a van with his savings, and now works as a driver for hire...read more
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9781620970201 | New Pr, September 16, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The driverâs job is to stay in control behind the wheel and that is all.
Product Description: Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon...read more
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9781445841359 | Large print edition (Gardners Books, August 6, 2012), cover price $31.40 | About this edition: Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house.
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9781595581983, titled "The Match" | New Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: His carefree existence shattered by a revelation about his mother's death years earlier, 1970s expatriate Sunny shares an unexpected romance with the luminous Clara before returning to his native Sri Lanka during a brief lull in the country's brutal ethnic war.
9780747578581, titled "The Match" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 20, 2006, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket.
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9780747579397, titled "The Match" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 19, 2007, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: 'Match' is about life, love and cricket.
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9780802117359 | Grove Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Marc leaves London in search of a new life on an island off the coast of India where he falls in love with Uva, an eco-warrior who has been targeted by kidnappers.
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9780802141453 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 16, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Marc leaves London in search of a new life on an island off the coast of India where he falls in love with Uva, an eco-warrior who has been targeted by kidnappers.
Product Description: Un hombre inicia un viaje hacia la isla donde nació su abuelo y donde murió su padre. El lugar es inicialmente paradisiaco. Sin embargo, la situación polÃtica es cada vez más compleja y de un ambiente previo a la guerra civil...read more
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9788484531364 | Ediciones Del Bronce, May 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Un hombre inicia un viaje hacia la isla donde nació su abuelo y donde murió su padre.
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9788483101704 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $20.95
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9781565844841 | New Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Set in London, the story of two feuding families whose lives are linked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka, brings to life Prins Ducal and his search for his family's past, his father's rise to wealth, rivalries, and a suspicious death
9780670881734, titled "Sandglass" | Viking Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Already hailed as âintricate and compellingâ by the Times Literary Supplement, The Sandglass is a striking novel by Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera, a 1994 Booker Prize finalist for his first novel, Reef.
9781862070844 | Granta Books, February 19, 1998, cover price $16.45 | About this edition: When Prins Ducal arrives in London for his mother's funeral, he is full of grief and unanswered questions about the past, namely the mystery of his father's much publicized "accidental death".
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9781573227582 | Riverhead Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Set in London, the story of two feuding families whose lives are linked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka, brings to life Prins Ducal and his search for his family's past, his father's rise to wealth, rivalries, and a suspicious death
9781862072381 | New edition (Granta Books, January 30, 1999), cover price $10.80 | About this edition: Among the secrets that Prins Ducal's mother has taken with her to the grave is the mystery of his father's 'accidental death' 40 years earlier.
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9781565840775 | New Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Nine stories look at modern Sri Lanka, where violence threatens to disrupt daily life and relationships
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9781862070950 | New edition (Granta Books, February 19, 1998), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: These nine stories create a compelling picture of Sri Lanka, a country of natural beauty and a society in turmoil.
9781573225502 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, July 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories set in modern Sri Lanka reflects a violent undercurrent that threatens to disrupt daily life and relationships
Product Description: The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh GunesekeraTriton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook and adults to impress and a brilliant master whose voice was poetry...read more
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9781565842199 | New Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Triton, an idealistic young cook in Sri Lanka, masters his duties under the studious eyes of marine biologist Mr.
9780029119303, titled "Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings" | Free Pr, September 1, 1966, cover price $19.95 | also contains Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings | About this edition: Light wear to boards.
Paperback:
9781573225335 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, January 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Triton, an idealistic young cook in Sri Lanka, masters his duties under the studious eyes of marine biologist Mr.
Prebinding:
9780613371674 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.25 | About this edition: The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh GunesekeraTriton loved living in Mister Salgado's house.
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