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  Three Rooms

  'A furious encapsulation of Generation Rent.' OLIVIA LAING, NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'Cool, sharp and perceptive.' StylistWhat is the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England?It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and insider, and she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. Summer rolls on and England roils with questions around its domestic civil rights: Brexit, Grenfell, climate change, homelessness. Meanwhile, tensions with her flatmate escalate, she is overworked and underpaid, and the prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until finally she has to ask herself: what is this all for?Incisive, original and brilliantly observed, Three Rooms is the story of a search for a home and for a self. Driven by despair and optimism in equal measure, the novel poignantly explores politics, race and belonging.'From the first paragraph, I was hooked... There's quiet, raw power in this book and its author.' COURTTIA NEWLAND, OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A phenomenal achievement.' The Times'One of the most candid and subtle explorations of class by an English novelist in recent years.' TLS'A biting dissection of privilege, race, inequality and ideology in 21st century Britain.' i'Jo Hamya is an exceptionally gifted writer...slowly but surely broke my heart.' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT'Intelligent, melancholy, funny and subtle.' CHRIS POWER'Both spectral and steeped in contemporary reality.' OLIVIA SUDJIC

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  Goddess (eBook, ePUB)

  What do you do when in search of Mr. Right? Blog about it, of course. Well, maybe not a normal person, but Brea McNorty, author of The Dating Slush Pile has never claimed to be on the list of regular peeps. Besides, her audience love hearing about her exploits, if only so their own dating disasters don't sound so bad, so why wouldn't she share just how much of a state her love life is in? After a few years of too many guys ending up on the reject list, though, Brea's ready to try something new, and the sandy beaches and suggested Happy Ever Afters in the SingleMingle brochure are just too tempting to ignore. When friend and work colleague Carrie suddenly announces she's dropping out from their planned escapade, however, Brea is left with an opening she needs to fill. Or risk going alone. Milton Lee is the perfect flatmate for Brea. Protective. Unassuming. Always on time with the rent. And the fact he enjoys walking around in his underwear is merely an added quirk Brea is all too happy to tolerate. On a totally platonic level, of course. On top of that, the duo just seem to gel, so when Milton offers to step into Carrie's vacated shoes and ensure Brea isn't left to holiday alone, she's only too happy to accept. Especially as he's shadowed all her recent date nights and made sure she's gotten home safe. Stands to reason he's the perfect candidate to do that in sunny Greece, too. But maybe Brea is looking a little too hard for love. And in all the wrong places. Maybe the possibility of love has been right before her very nose this entire time.

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  I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate

  I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate - and Other Encounters with Legends: ab 12.99 €

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  • Price: 12.99 EUR excl. shipping

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