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The Death Of Lomond
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When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray & she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. As she strives towards building some kind of future for herself & her father, he quietly plots his own death...

Set on the east coast of Scotl&, the novel covers events in the weeks following the stroke & the lives of this small cast of captivating but very real characters. Exploring the impact of memory & conscience, it tackles a dysfunctional family at a time of crisis, delving into the complexities of emotions & family history with compassion, humour & grace. In subtle, distinctive prose, alive with wit & verve, Sue Peebles has written a captivating, lovable & unusual novel
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The Death Of Lomond
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When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray & she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. As she strives towards building some kind of future for herself & her father, he quietly plots his own death...

Set on the east coast of Scotl&, the novel covers events in the weeks following the stroke & the lives of this small cast of captivating but very real characters. Exploring the impact of memory & conscience, it tackles a family at a time of crisis, delving into the complexities of emotions & family history with compassion, humour & grace. In subtle, distinctive prose, alive with wit & verve, Sue Peebles has written a captivating, lovable & unusual novel
- a domestic canvas where every detail counts.


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The Death Of Lomond
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When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray & she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. As she strives towards building some kind of future for herself & her father, he quietly plots his own death...

Set on the east coast of Scotl&, the novel covers events in the weeks following the stroke & the lives of this small cast of captivating but very real characters. Exploring the impact of memory & conscience, it tackles a family at a time of crisis, delving into the complexities of emotions & family history with compassion, humour & grace. In subtle, distinctive prose, alive with wit & verve, Sue Peebles has written a captivating, lovable & unusual novel
- a domestic canvas where every detail counts.


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The Death Of The
Banker: The Decline Of
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The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of Anglo-American high finance over the past two centuries, with detours into Canadian, German & Japanese finance. As the point of departure for his colourful, panoramic survey, Ron Chernow poses a historic riddle: Why did the great financial dynasties
- the Rothschilds, Barings, Morgans & Warburgs
- flare so brilliantly in the 19th & 20th centuries & then enter into a precipitous decline? Why did such heavyweights give way to more anonymous financial conglomerates, &, most curious of all, why have small investors, banded together in mutual funds, suddenly inherited the financial earth?

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The Decay Of The Angel
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As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, The Decay of the Angel brings together the dominant themes of the three previous novels: the meaning & decay of Japan's courtly tradition & samurai ideal; the essence & value of Buddhist philosophy & aesthetics; &, underlying all, Mishima's apocalyptic vision of the modern era, which saw the dissolution of the moral & cultural forces that throughout the ages nourished a people & a world. The time is the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged & wealthy man, discovers & adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises & educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting. ...
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The Death Of The Heart

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness and austere trust being too much for her admirer Eddie, who is himself defensive and uncomfortable in this society which has managed to bring them together. In the midst of the rising tension is set perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's most brilliant piece of social comedy, when, at a seaside villa full of rollicking young people, Portia experiences at least temporary relief from the misery Eddie seems determined to
bring her.
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It is London in the late 1930s, & into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her & looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser
- her impossible lovingness & austere trust being too much for her admirer Eddie, who is himself defensive & uncomfortable in this society which has managed to bring them together. In the midst of the rising tension is set perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's most brilliant piece of social comedy, when, at a seaside villa full of rollicking young people, Portia experiences at least temporary relief from the misery Eddie seems determined to bring her.

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