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Ghost Written
To celebrate the paperback publication of Jonathan Coe's latest novel Writing from the other side allows narrators to view life - and death - with a certain postmortal detachment. This month we look at ghost written novels from some of Penguin's finest writers.
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The Red Queen
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her?
A terrific novel set in 18th century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered. 
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How the Dead Live
Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston – London’s borough for those no longer troubled by breathing – but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-obsessed foetus, her dead, foul-mouthed son and three gruesome creatures made of her own unwanted fat, she must find something to do with her time. So how do the dead live? And what happens when they stop being dead? |
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Wuthering Heights
‘May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then’
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. |
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Hotel World
Ali Smith's innovative and extraordinary novel checks us in to the smooth plush world of the Global. But is it really the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your life in?
Playful, defiant, richly inventive, Hotel World is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration, an alchemy of opposite worlds colliding to make a modern parable of connection and indifference, and, in the end, a defence of love.
Forget room service. This is a life-affirming book about death, a death-affirming book about life. |
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