LIBROS DEL AUTOR: graham pryor

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  • To Be Frank
    Graham Pryor
    Frank is any one of us, and like us he is unique. This series of tales, drawing from actual and imagined events, threads together seven episodes from the life of an ordinary man. To be Frank, he has constantly to reconcile acquired principles with natural impulse until, in late life, they become conjoined. From teenage rebel to educator, to scientific researcher, to corporate m...
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    13,89 €

  • Make Hay
    Graham Pryor
    Make Hay is a story about love. It is not a romance, its principal character does not walk in beauty like a night of starry skies. It is the tale of Ryan, a youth of seventeen going on eighteen, and his edifying adventures with his two fascinating neighbours. In this book, in the words of James Baldwin, ’love is a growing up’. ...
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    11,27 €

  • Stranger Than Normal
    Graham Pryor
    Some people claim that extra-terrestrials are already here among us, but how would we recognise them if they don’t look very different to ourselves? We are such a diverse people that, when anyone diverges from the norm - whatever that is - by what means would we identify them as stranger than normal?Juv is an accidental guest of a government research installation, where his ’al...
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    11,93 €

  • Feuilletage
    Graham Pryor
    Two men in conversation. One is the listener, engaged in a private quest for knowledge, the other is the storyteller, unwittingly wallowing in the revelation of his secrets. Layers of his life are laid down uncritically but has he learned from the overall structure of his existence? ...
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    15,11 €

  • Salient
    Graham Pryor
    Locked in to a world of regulation and routine, the narrator reflects upon his condition, one of being inescapably medicalised, and relives the events leading up to his current state of being. An unexpected intervention to his solitary thoughts comes from the natural world, bringing the suggestion that there is an alternative, and that the time will come again when he can choos...
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    8,99 €

  • After Brexit
    Graham Pryor
    In 2016, Britain’s political class brought schism and rancour to the nation, the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) dividing countries, workplaces and families in a manner unseen since the seventeenth century. The government’s incompetence displayed in the subsequent withdrawal negotiations did nothing to heal the rift in society and, following the United Kingd...
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    11,43 €

  • His Orgy of Crime
    Graham Pryor
    His Orgy of Crime is the narrative of a boy apart. It is in most part a reassembly of facts, the shocking incidents for which Paul is the author having taken place in the 1960s. Paul’s story commences with his going up to secondary school, where he dismisses normal schoolboy patterns of behaviour for a more sociopathic bearing. The book’s surprising conclusion, several decades ...
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    13,25 €

  • Kaleidoscope
    Graham Pryor
    The accuracy of recalled childhood memories in adulthood is the subject of extensive research and debate, and controversies exist surrounding the authenticity of recovered memories. This recollection of episodes from a childhood spent in 1950s England is enhanced by the author’s ADHD syndrome; it supplies a rare clarity to counteract the errors commonly found with authentic mem...
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    9,78 €

  • Justice
    Graham Pryor
    Jonny is on a mission to punish careless political leaders. He is also a scientific researcher, having volunteered to be the subject of a daring cryonics trial that aims to push the bounds of human existence. Jonny has a habit too, he’s just a little over fond of the occasional opiate or cannabinoid. It makes life that tiny bit more complicated for a young man on a moral crusad...
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    13,22 €

  • Origins
    Graham Pryor
    Two decades after the assassination of President Trump and the deployment of a nuclear device in the Middle East, the world order has not rebalanced. The final extinction of North Sea oil has left the UK weak and isolated, its failed governments north and south of the border provoked into taking desperate measures, Scotland’s north-east seeing the transformation of redundant oi...
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    20,87 €

  • Preferred Lies
    Graham Pryor
    Stephen knew that something bad had happened. After all, he’d been there, hadn’t he, he’d been a part of it. But how bad it was he could never be sure. Everything seemed to conspire against his knowing.A decade later, as a young man, an unexpected opportunity to discover the truth presents itself. Only, is it the truth he wants to discover?This speculative adventure threads...
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    24,10 €