Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death, Varjak Paw finds himself the elected & popular leader of a new gang
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Set in Alabama, society lawyer Adam Shaw is married to the beautiful Kris Ann who has bound him to a life he despises & her father, Roland Cade, his senior partner & rival. When Shaw discovers Lydia Cantwell (a prominent society woman & close friend of Kris Ann & Cade) brutally murdered, his life takes on a new focus as he battles to clear Henry Cantwell of the charge of murder. In doing so, he digs up secrets from Lydia's past that will endanger his career, his marriage & his own well-being. It becomes increasingly evident that Lydia's death is inextricably linked to Shaw's own past & future. ...

Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation & spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that this early success was no passing fashion: The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable & the excitement of a thriller & remains one of the most widely read & influential classics of the century. ...

Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft & lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself & one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of the oyster catchers were sturdy, stoic women, used to helping their men with the catch, & they didn't like the frail outsider who had married into their community. Nina Parks especially didn't like her
- Nina was a widow who thought Joe Harries should have been hers. Emmeline
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- grew more isolated, more unhappy, trapped into an ill-matched marriage without friends to help her. & then she met Will Davies. Will was to open new worlds to her, worlds of personal achievement, the unfolding of a talent she never knew she possessed, & the realisation that she knew how to love. As tragedy & passionate feuding began to erupt in the oyster village, so Eline clung to her integrity, her ability to work, & her hopes for the future.


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Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft & lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself & one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of the oyster catchers were sturdy, stoic women, used to helping their men with the catch, & they didn't like the frail outsider who had married into their community. Nina Parks especially didn't like her
- Nina was a widow who thought Joe Harries should have been hers. Emmeline
- Eline
- grew more isolated, more unhappy, trapped into an ill-matched marriage without friends to help her. & then she met Will Davies. Will was to open new worlds to her, worlds of personal achievement, the unfolding of a talent she never knew she possessed, & the realisation that she knew how to love. As tragedy & passionate feuding began to erupt in the oyster village, so Eline clung to her integrity, her ability to work, & her hopes for the future.


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The Pack is set in a crumbling & dangerous city, following an economic & political collapse, known as the Dead Time. In the Invisible City, the rich inure themselves from danger & threat by electrified fences & hired guards. The poor & the abandoned, segregated in the Forbidden Territories & The Zones, must fend for themselves &, for them, food is hard to come by, & the winters are cruel. The story centres round a group of street children, Victor, Floris & Bradley, their leader. The children are watched over by the Old Woman, & by a pack of dogs that Bradley has befriended, dogs who now see him as their leader & whose loyalty to him is ferocious. Though life in the Zone is hard it is the only life the children know & they dare not venture into the world beyond it. But then Floris is kidnapped & Bradley & Victor have no choice but to set out to rescue her. Their journey leads them into many dangerous territories, & their lives are endangered more than once, but ultimately it is a journey of discovery, & of healing-Though the world of The Packis fictitious many parallels can be drawn between this & our own world. ...

What are The Pages?
On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother & sister work the property while
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What are The Pages?
On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother & sister work the property while
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