Raymond Carver: Beginners [2010] paperback TRAVL John Romer conveys to the

John Romer conveys to the reader a remarkable sense of how to understand a people so like ourselves and yet in so many ways eerily different

This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol

the past is never far away in this twisty thriller where nothing is quite as it seems

the Bristol Crime Unit is quick to rule it a suicide as the woman had a long history of drug abuse

It also brings alive a neglected aspect of British history - the blood-spattered steps of two small countries on the fringes of Europe towards an awkward unity that would ultimately forge a great nation

Raymond Carver: Beginners [2010] paperback TRAVL John Romer conveys to theWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveals what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired