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Pin is a bawdy,
adolescent cobbler's
assistant, both arrogant
and insecure who - while
the Second World War
rages - sings songs and
tells jokes to endear
himself to the grown-ups
of his town -
particularly jokes about
his sister, who they all
know as the town's
'mattress'.
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There's just one cardinal
rule when it comes to
being a bodyguard: no
matter how tempting it
may be, never, ever get
romantically involved
with the person you're
protecting. This title
features sensual novellas
that prove, even the
most important rules are
made to be broken - again
and again and again.
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The love affair between
Maurice Bendix and Sarah,
flourishing in the
turbulent times of the
London Blitz, ends when
she suddenly and without
explanation breaks it
off. After a chance
meeting rekindles his
love and jealousy two
years later, Bendix
hires a private detective
to follow Sarah, and
slowly his love for her
turns into an obsession.
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After Ciara's estranged
father is nearly killed
by his second wife in a
car 'accident' she
gingerly re-enters his
life. As her troubled
family gather for the
holidays, is it too much
to hope that they might
find peace? Of course it
is. With cross-dressing
twin, new loves and a
monstrous matriarch,
Christmas was never going
to be easy. But it proves
more disastrous and
happier than any of them
could have guessed.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
brings to life the
decline of the prosperous
Moskat family, Polish
Jews living in Warsaw
between the dawn of the
twentieth century and the
gloom of 1939. On a vast
breathtaking background,
saints mingle with
swindlers, tough
Zionists with mystic
philosophers, and
medieval rabbis rub
shoulders with
ultra-modern painters.
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Red haired and jade eyed
Deirdre is determined to
marry for love and
nothing else. Even if her
father's candidate, Lord
Harry Desire, is well
bred and good looking
interests her not a jot!
But the feelings he
arouses in her are truly
distracting. Deidre
learns what desire can
mean and where her heart
really lies, bringing
about a delicious climax
to his adventure of
intrigue,
misunderstanding and
love!
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More than two decades
after moving to Saudi
Arabia and marrying
Abdullah Baylani,
Rosalie learns that her
husband has married a
second wife. The
discovery plunges the
powerful family into
chaos as Rosalie grapples
with leaving Saudi
Arabia, her life and her
family behind.
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Hallie Owen, a magazine
columnist from Detroit,
Michigan, travels to
Alburn, Texas, to
pursue the coveted dream
of writing the history of
the town's most prominent
family, Winston Alburn
Mitchell. Too soon,
Hallie finds herself
struggling to keep
secrets she wished she
had never heard.
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Two soldiers travel
across Italy at the
height of summer,
passing through Genoa,
Rome and Naples. One of
the soldiers is blind,
graceful, gleefully
vicious and wears a
prosthetic arm; the
other, twenty years his
junior, is his guide.
But as these men drink
their way through bars,
brothels and train
carriages, who is
guiding who?
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Bandy Dorner, home from
Vietnam, awakes with his
car mired in a canal,
his home reduced to
ashes, and his pregnant
wife preparing to leave
town with her lover.
Within moments, a cop
lies bleeding in the
road. Nearly two decades
later, Bandy is released
from prison. His parents
are gone, and on the
family ranch, he faces a
different reunion.
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When Polly and Theo Noble
book the Casa Luna for
their summer holiday they
plan a civilised
Anglo-American
house-party with Theo's
brother Daniel, his
girlfriend, and Polly's
old schoolfriend. But the
Casa Luna is a place
where strange things
happen and anyone who
lives there risks
unexpected joys and
sorrows.
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Presents the story of a
fashionable lady who is
banished from Versailles
by the king. She tries to
make the best of living
on her country estate,
but although she
entertains lovers and
friends from Paris, she
comes to find it
intolerable. This is a
tale of violence,
unrequited passion, and
a marriage that is no
true marriage.
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Irish siblings
Malachi, Gideon, and
Rebecca Sullivan are on a
mission.
A
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Someday is Brigitte
Nicholson's watchword.
Someday she and the man
she loves, Ted, will
clarify their
relationship. Someday
she'll have children.
Someday she'll finish
writing her book. Someday
she'll stop playing it so
safe... Then something
happens that changes
Brigitte's life
completely.
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Brodie Logan's
once-idyllic marriage has
ended, and moving back
into her childhood home -
a large family house
overlooking Liverpool bay
- she decides to let out
the spare rooms. Diana
has been keeping house
for her brothers but
suddenly finds there's no
place for her in the only
home she's ever known;
Vanessa is miserable,
overweight, and trying
to get over being left at
the altar; and
fifteen-year-old Rachel
moves in to escape the
people who are trying to
take away her baby
daughter.
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It is Thanksgiving in
North Bank and Sully,
old Miss Beryl's feckless
lodger, does not have
much to be thankful for.
His arthritic knee is
acting up and so is his
truck; his ex-wife is at
the end of her tether,
his mistress is giving
him the cold shoulder,
and the grinning ghost of
his father won't leave
him alone.
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Tells the tale of
Benjamin Trotter and his
friends' coming of age
during the 1970s which is
a celebration of the joys
and agonies of growing
up, featuring IRA bombs,
prog rock, punk rock,
bad poetry, first love,
love on the side,
prefects, detention, a
few bottles of Blue Nun,
plenty of brown
wallpaper, industrial
strife, and more.
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Cassandra Mortmain lives
with her bohemian and
impoverished family in a
crumbling castle in the
middle of nowhere.
However, all their lives
are turned upside down
when the American heirs
to the castle arrive and
Cassandra finds herself
falling in love for the
first time.
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It's 1979 and Rabbit is
no longer running. He's
walking, and beginning
to get out of breath.
That's ok, though - it
gives him the chance to
enjoy the wealth that
comes with middle age. So
why is it that he finds
it so hard to accept the
way that things have
turned out?
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Art was not only a
passion of Machiko
Barrett, but also a
destiny - a way of life
she has known since her
talent was discovered at
3-years-old. Caught in a
turbulent storm of
celebrity, scandal, and
corruption, she
disappeared from the art
world only to re-emerge
15 years later.
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Bjartus is a sheep farmer
determined to eke a
living from a blighted
patch of land. Nothing,
not merciless weather,
nor his family will come
between him and his goal
of financial
independence. Only Asta
Solillja, the child he
brings up as his
daughter, can pierce his
stubborn heart.
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Discover 10, 000 years of
the shadowy side of our
world in this treasure
trove of alternative
history. The Element
Encyclopedia of Secret
Societies features
detailed information
about secret societies
from Freemasons to the
Bavarian Illuminati,
lost civilizations from
the Mayan culture to
Atlantis, and key
figures from DA Vinci to
Hitler. Completer with
intriguing insights about
unsolved historical
mysteries like the
location of the Holy
Grail and the fate of the
Knights Templar, plus
conspiracy theories,
ancient wisdom, and
forgotten sciences, it
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Louis L' Amour is the
world's best-selling
frontier novelist. Amour
wrote about what he knew:
he had lived an exciting,
and sometimes hard,
life, he knew the West,
and his stories were all
the more captivating
because of the historical
accuracy. This title pays
homage to this one of the
greatest Western
story-tellers.
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Presents a savage satire
on the morality of
contemporary Britain -
its Press, its Politics,
its Church, its rich,
its underclass. The
author's London is a
bleak, if occasionally
hilarious, place:
murderous, randy,
money-obsessed and
haunted by strange gods.
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The quiet life of
schoolteacher Bill Mor
and his family is
disturbed when Rain
Carter arrives at the
school to paint the
portrait of the
headmaster. Mor becomes
aware of new desires and
his wife and children
fight discreetly and
ruthlessly against Rain
and her influence over
him.
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Captain van Toch
discovers a colony of
newts in Sumatra which
can not only be taught to
trade and use tools, but
also to speak. As the
rest of the world learns
of the creatures and
their wonderful
capabilities, it is
clear that this species
is ripe for exploitation.
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Asher Lev is a gifted
loner, the artist who
painted the sensational
Brooklyn Crucifixion.
Into it he poured all the
anguish and torment a Jew
can feel when torn
between the faith of his
fathers and the calling
of his art. Here he
plunges back into his
childhood and recounts
the story of love and
conflict which dragged
him to this crossroads.
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When John Steinbeck was
almost sixty years old,
worried that he might
have lost touch with the
sights, the sounds and
the essence of America's
people, he took note of
his itchy feet and
prepared to travel. He
was accompanied by his
French poodle, Charley,
diplomat and watchdog,
across the states of
America from Maine to
California.
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The central character of
the novel is the
personification of the
urge of freedom and
self-acknowledgement in
women. To ensure
independence and free
will for herself, Edna
Pontellier experiments
with her life. With
comparisons of
life-styles, approaches
to feminism and its
manifestations, the
novel is an in-depth
study of human
psychology....
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Claire Barclay has
returned to the house in
Scotland where she spent
her teenage years. After
the sudden death of her
mother, Claire is
concerned about the
welfare of her much-loved
and now frail stepfather,
Leo. But his own grown
children seem more
concerned about
preserving their
financial assets than
their father's health.
Claire is desperately
trying to avoid Jonas,
the love of her life who
broke her heart at just
eighteen, but he's
asking her to trust him
again, on a matter of
great urgency. Can she
forget the past and put
her faith in someone who
once hurt her so deeply?
The bestselling author of
An Ocean Apart, Robin
Pilcher excels at weaving
stories full of heart,
warmth and family
secrets.
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Nicholas Duncan is a
semi-retired shipping
magnate who resides in
idyllic Beautiful Bay in
Indonesia, where he is
known as the old
patriarch of the islands.
He is grieving the loss
of his beautiful Eurasian
wife, Anna, and is
suffering for the first
time from disturbing
flashbacks to WWII, the
scene of their first
meeting and early love.
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Martin Benson, of
Sucking Sherbet Lemons
fame, has made it home
after a lifetime's
wandering. Now, with a
partner, a house, and a
hard-won sobriety,
assisted by the
fellowship of QA (Queer
Alcoholics), one of
British fiction's great
comic heroes has finally
put away childish things,
as he contemplates the
ultimate commitment of
civil partnership.
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Beatrice Rossall, the
daughter of an elderly
vicar, is faced with a
bleak future when her
father dies, leaving not
only Bea without a home
but also Daisy, a
four-month-old orphan
left in her care. With no
money and nowhere to go,
Bea is in a predicament
until fate steps in and
offers her a way out.
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When Charles Arrowby
retires from his
glittering career in the
London theatre, he buys
a remote house on the
rocks by the sea. He
hopes to escape from his
tumultuous love affairs
but unexpectedly bumps
into his childhood
sweetheart and sets his
heart on destroying her
marriage.
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The raw beauty of Sabrina
Leon demands the
attention of all, having
been plucked from
obscurity, she's
suddenly become the new
darling of the film
scene. But she has a
problem, a new YouTube
sensation spreading
through the web looks set
to destroy everything
she's worked hard for.
Meanwhile, hotshot movie
producer Dorian Ramirez
has his own problems. A
feud with rival producer
and playboy, Harry
Greene, has caused every
project he goes near to
be pulled. But will
casting Sabrina in his
remake of Wuthering
Heights be a risk that
costs him? Viorel Hudson
was always destined for
great things, now he's
scored the enviable role
of Heathcliff. While he
might be at the height of
his career, is he really
ready for his next role?
Not to mention his fiery
co-star?
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Cathy Scarlet and Tom
Feather team up to create
'Scarlet Feather' the
best catering company in
Dublin. With plenty of
talent, perfect premises
and even a few contacts,
they find not everyone is
as enthusiastic as they
are. Tom's parents are
disappointed he has
chosen to turn his back
on the family business
and Cathy's mother-in-law
believes Cathy should
stay at home. Yet neither
Cathy's marriage, nor
Tom's relationship with
his girlfriend, are
everything they appear to
be as the pair struggle
to maintain their
emotional ties with the
many triumphs and
disasters of Scarlet
Feather.
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The story of the title
deals with a little boy
named Larry and his
feelings towards his
father. When his father
returns home from World
War II, Larry is
resentful and jealous of
losing his mother's
undivided attention, and
finds himself in a
constant struggle to win
back her affections.
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'Australia is a lucky
country, run mainly by
second-rate people who
share its luck.' The
phrase 'the lucky
country' has become part
of our lexicon; it's
forever being invoked in
debates about the
Australian way of life,
but is all too often
misused. This book
enables understanding the
anxieties and discontents
of Australian society.
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A novel about growing up
in a world unhinged by
war; about longing,
loss, and the search for
home. It is suitable for
those with an interest in
twentieth century history
who would like to find
out what it might have
been like to be on the
other side durin
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Memories define us. So
what if you lost yours
every time you went to
sleep? Your name, your
identity, your past,
even the people you love
- all forgotten
overnight. And the one
person you trust may only
be telling you half the
story. Welcome to
Christine's life. The
size of this book is
19.8cm in height and 13cm
wide and has 378 pages.
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First published under a
pseudonym in 1975, and
winner of the inaugural
Angus & Robertson
publishing prize, this
powerful coming of age
novel is now published as
originally intended, and
includes an afterword
from the author
describing the
circumstances of its
original release.
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Bilodo, a postman shares
his Montreal apartment
with his goldfish, Bill.
As a result of his
indiscretion, Bilodo
becomes involved in an
exchange of haiku between
the woman of his dreams,
a Guadeloupean beauty,
and Gaston Grandpre, an
eccentric intellectual
whose mail Bilodo
delivers.
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As the First World War
rages, Lieutenant
Benjamin Knyve enters
revolutionary Russia to
protect the royal family
from Communist captivity.
But he succeeds in saving
only the youngest
daughter, Anastasia.
Now, Benjamin must
confront those who might
betray Anastasia, deal
with her drug dependency
and accept the strange
result of her pregnancy.
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The noble inmouchar Gazel
Sayah, is the master of
a large extension of the
desert. One day, two
fugitives arrive from the
north and Gazel,
following his ancient and
sacred hospitality laws,
gives them shelter.
However, Gazel doesn't
realise that his act of
kindness will lead him
towards a deadly
adventure.
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A work in which the
author turns his incisive
critical skills onto his
own profession, salutes
the great writers who
have influenced his work,
wonders about the
motives of biographers,
ponders the merits of
creative writing courses,
pulls the rug from under
certain theoretical
critics and throws open
the curtains on his own
workshop.
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A novel of fathers and
daughters, and the
conflict between duty and
desire, set in rural
Morocco and urban
Catalunya. It presents
saga of a Moroccan family
and a story of a girl's
struggle to find her own
identity and break free
of a domineering father.
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Curl up with Cathy Lamb,
an author you will come
to cherish, as she makes
you laugh, cry and reach
for the chocolate - Ever
since the Bommarito
sisters were little
girls, their mother has
written them letters on
pink paper when she has
something especially
important to tell them.
This time, the message
is urgent and impossible
to ignore. River
Bommarito requires open
heart surgery, and
Isabelle and her sisters
are needed at home to run
the family bakery and to
take care of their
brother, Henry, and
grandmother, Stella,
who believes she's Amelia
Earhart. Poignant,
funny, and as
irresistible as one of
the Bommarito Bakery's
delicious giant cupcakes,
Henry's Sisters is a
novel about family and
forgiveness, mothers and
daughters, and gaining
the wisdom to look ahead
while still holding tight
to everything that
matters most. The size of
this book is 19.7cm in
height and 12.9cm wide
with 511 pages.
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The pretty young tutor
Clare Bayes attracts many
eyes at an Oxford college
dinner, not least those
of a visiting Spanish
lecturer. As they begin
an affair, meeting in
hotel bedrooms away from
the eyes of Clare's
husband, the Spaniard
finds himself increas
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Brought up in a
fundamentalist home,
eighteen-year-old Grace
feels trapped in a
suburban Alcatraz by her
father and her timid
mother. An affair with a
college professor seems
like a great escape. But
freedom brings with it
unanticipated
complications and Grace
discovers that being
involved with an older
man is not all chardonnay
and poetry.
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Lord Copper, newspaper
magnate and proprietor of
'The Daily Beast', has
always prided himself on
his intuitive flair for
spotting ace reporters.
That is not to say he has
not made the odd blunder,
however, and may in a
moment of weakness make
another.
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As a girl growing up in
Hong Kong, Lily Lin was
captivated by photographs
of the desert. Now living
in New York, Lily is
struggling to finish her
graduate degree when she
receives an astonishing
offer. An aunt she never
knew existed will pay
Lily a huge sum to travel
across China's Taklamakan
Desert - and carry out a
series of tasks along the
way.
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When freelance
photographer Penny Lane
trips over a dead body on
Hoylake beach she makes a
terrible error of
judgement. Now she must
put matters right. Her
overnight transformation
from photographer to
amateur private eye is
the easy bit but as the
body count increases with
frightening rapidity,
tracking down the killer
proves more difficult.
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Sherlock Holmes has
retired. After a cruel
accident during a
fruitless chase for
Moriarty, Holmes is
maimed badly enough that
he declares he will no
longer solve the crimes
of the London streets.
But then a letter comes.
A letter imploring him to
investigate the Opera
Populaire's ghost. The
spectre everyone has
heard rumours of, only
one has seen.
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With 5 heartwarming
stories set in the past
from authors such as
Maureen Lee and Catrin
Collier. Footsteps by
Katharine McMahon. The
women in Helena Mayrick's
family have always led
secretive and tragic
lives, and when Helena's
comfortable marriage is
devastated by her
husband's violent death,
it seems that she, too,
is locked into the
cycle. Helena is invited
to research a book on her
grandfather, H.
Donaldson, the
celebrated Edwardian
photographer. At first
she is reluctant to
immerse herself in family
history, particularly as
Donaldson's relationship
with her grandmother,
Ruth, is shrouded in
mystery and turmoil. But
gradually, as the story
of enigmatic Ruth and the
elusive, passionate
Donaldson unfolds,
Helena finds that the
past, like the present,
was shaped by cruel
dilemmas and the demands
of love... Love in the
Country by Rebecca Shaw.
When Seb joins
Barleybridge, the last
thing on his mind is
romance. Keen to settle
into his first real job
and make a good
impression he embraces
the working life of a
country vet. He has
almost forgotten his high
maintenance ex-girlfriend
Carly and concentrates on
settling down to a job he
really loves. He is
welcomed by the other
members of the Practice
and is soon contending
with a menagerie of very
diverse clients which
take Seb on an incredibly
steep learning curve. Seb
is to find that his
expertise with animals
and their owners leads to
a friendship with the
upper-class Jilly and
rather more than that
with Maggie whose family
is heartbroken when he
diagnoses their alpacas
with TB. But when a
surprise meeting in the
Practice itself turns his
world upside down... Love
& Laughter by Lilian
Harry. The War is over at
last and in Plymouth and
Portsmouth, two of
Britain's greatest
seaports, the task of
rebuilding must begin.
But it is not only
streets, businesses and
homes that have been laid
waste. Lives, too, have
been devastated.
Marriages have been
disrupted, family life
shattered, and now the
inhabitants must find
their own way back to
normality - if they can
remember what that is.
Lucy Pengelly is just one
woman whose life has been
torn apart by the War.
What will happen when her
husband returns from the
POW camp in the Far East?
And what of the growing
friendship between Lucy
and her friend David,
who played such an
important part in their
lives during the Blitz?
Such Sweet Sorrow by
Catrin Collier. When
World War Two is finally
declared, the entwined
Powell and Ronconi
families face an
uncertain future in
Pontypridd. For three
women in particular,
there are hard choices to
make. Jenny Powell
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In this follow up to the
number one bestseller,
Pets in a Pickle,
Malcolm Welshman,
introduces a wealth of
new characters - animal
and human - while
reminding us of some firm
favourites, such as the
steely-eyed receptionist,
Beryl Wagstaff, and the
Stockwell sisters who
never have time for the
'vet in a hurry'.
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Presents a truthful story
which is told in the form
of diary, kept by
Angelika, the
sister-in-law and friend
of Klara, who, after
her release from
Auschwitz, wandered
through war-ravaged
Europe for two months
before returning to
Paris. This work reveals
the horror of what she
experienced in Auschwitz
as she struggles to
readapt to normal life.
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Gordon Comstock loathes
dull, middle-class
respectability and
worship of money. He
gives up a 'good job' in
advertising to work
part-time in a bookshop,
giving him more time to
write. But he slides
instead into a
self-induced poverty that
destroys his creativity
and his spirit.
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Deal Breaker
When a
woman who everyone,
including the police,
believes is dead makes a
phone call to a young
sportsman about to hit
the big time, it seems
that more than just his
career is on the
line. Drop Shot A young
woman is shot in cold
blood, her lifeless body
dumped outside the
stadium at the height of
the US open. Once her
tennis career has
skyrocketed. Now the
headlines were being made
by another young player
from the wrong side of
the tracks. Fade
Away When Myron Bolitar
is asked to find missing
sportsman Greg Downing it
brings back a whole load
of unwanted memories. He
and Greg were once rivals
not just in sport, but
for a woman they both
loved. Back Spin The
boy was last seen in a
seedy, downtown hotel
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Dove Findhorn is a naive
country boy who busts out
of Hicksville, Texas in
pursuit of a better life
in New Orleans. Amongst
the downtrodden
prostitutes, bootleggers
and hustlers of the old
French Quarter, Dove
finds only hopelessness,
crime and despair. H
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After establishing a
fortune in the paint
business, Silas Lapham
moves his family to the
city of Boston, where
they awkwardly attempt to
break into Brahmin
society. Silas, greedy
for wealth as well as
prestige, brings his
company to the brink of
bankruptcy, and the
family is forced to
return to Vermont,
financially ruined but
morally renewed.
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From the staff to the
customers, every table
has a thousand tales to
tell at Quentin's
restaurant in Dublin. Now
Ella Brandy wants to make
a documentary about the
restaurant but the more
she hears, the more she
questions the wisdom of
the people she meets.
Forced to confront a
dilemma in her own life,
Ella wonders if some
stories should not be
told...
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On an autumn day in 2006,
on the Isle of Wight,
Jack Luxton, former
Devon farmer and now the
proprietor of a seaside
caravan park, receives
the news that his soldier
brother Tom, not seen
for years, has been
killed in Iraq. For Jack
and his wife Ellie this
will have a potentially
catastrophic impact. For
Jack in particular it
means a crucial journey
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One assumes that Maeve
Binchy's fiction always
on the bestseller list is
sold mainly to women: the
broader canvas of
politics, business and
legal matters don't seem
to engage her interest.
She's at her best in the
intimate minutiae of
domestic life hopes and
dreams, matters of the
heart and she's well
served by her cousin
Kate, who narrates her
audio books with immense
skill and conviction.
Tara Road is in Dublin,
where Ria has created an
exquisite home for her
adored husband Danny and
her two children. Her
kitchen is a warm,
convivial meeting place
for family and friends,
but Danny seems too busy
to enjoy it. To coax him
back into the family
circle, Ria suggests
they have another baby,
whereupon he confesses
that he's in love with a
teenage girl whom he's
made pregnant, and with
whom he intends to live.
Realising that she's been
living in a fool's
paradise, Ria arranges a
house exchange with a New
Englander whose marriage
is also on the rocks, a
month in someone else's
life should free them
both from their misery.
But the reality is more
complicated, because the
women have not been
entirely open with each
other. Skeletons emerge
from cupboards, and
while some characters
lose out, others rise
like phoenixes from the
ashes of their former
lives. Welcome to
Binchy's variegated
world, 17.7cm x 11.2cm x
3.1, pages 488
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In a moment of sudden
inspiration Sarah Worth -
S - has walked out on her
husband to join the
Ashram Arhat. Famous for
his transcendent wisdom
and divine immobility,
the Arhat has transferred
his ahram from India to
Arizona, where he and
his enthusiastic
entourage are attempting
to make the desert
fruitful.
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Victor leaves the home of
his foster mother to take
his job in another town
but stops on a remote
island to visit his uncle
who he has never met.
Surrounded by an
atmosphere of death and
decay, Victor and his
uncle symbolise opposite
attitudes to life and
their existential
effects: stillness and
movement, light and
dark, openness and
withdrawal.
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On a train journey from
Paris to Madrid a young
opera singer becomes
fascinated by those in
his compartment: a
middle-aged businessman,
his alluring wife and
their male travelling
companion. Soon his life
of constant travel,
luxury hotels, rehearsal
and p
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Dix Steele is back in
town, and 'town' is
post-war LA. His best
friend Brub is on the
force of the LAPD, and
as the two meet in
country clubs and beach
bars, they discuss the
latest case: a strangler
is preying on young women
in the dark. Dix listens
with interest as Brub
describes their top
suspect, as yet unnamed.
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Amory Blaine, intent on
rebelling against his
staid, Midwestern
upbringing, longs to
acquire the patina of
Eastern sophistication.
In his quest for sexual
and intellectual
enlightenment, he
progresses through a
series of relationships,
until he is cast out into
the real world.
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When a kidnapped woman's
husband refuses to pay
her ransom, she plots
revenge with the help of
her reluctant kidnapper.
Discovering her husband's
plan to betray her, she
frames him for her own
'murder', forcing her
young kidnapper into an
unexpected moral dilemma
that will change him
forever.
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Adam Omega finally has
what he's missed the
most: his wife. The only
thing, he's turned his
wife into a vampire and
he detests the touch of a
vampiric woman in the act
of making love. Adam's
love for Eve grows, but
along with that is his
dismay at not being able
to make love to her.
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The exploits and excesses
of three pill-popping
showbiz heroines: Anne,
the smalltown girl who
captivates a millionaire,
but falls for a cad;
Jennifer, the Marilyn
Monroe clone who
possesses everything -
except immortality; and
Neely, ruthless Judy
Garlandesque
understudy-turned-superstar.
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Set in the 17th century,
in Italy, France and on
the high seas, this is a
tale of medieval legends
and dastardly deeds,
mixed with portions of
exploration literature.
Roberto, a young
nobleman, waits alone on
a Pacific island,
separated from the island
beyond: the island of the
day before.
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Miss Hester Harper,
middle-aged and
eccentric, brings
Katherine into her
emotionally impoverished
life. Together they sew,
cook gourmet dishes for
two, run the farm, make
music and throw dirty
dishes down the well. One
night, driving along the
deserted track that leads
to the farm, they run
into a mysterious
creature.
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Provides inspiration for
anti-colonial movements
ever since, analysing
the role of class, race,
national culture and
violence in the struggle
for freedom. In this
book, the author makes
clear the economic and
psychological degradation
inflicted by imperialism.
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Alex is in his thirties,
a solitary man who has
finally found love in the
form of his beautiful and
vivacious wife, Rachel.
When Rachel is brutally
murdered one Midsummer
Night by the lake in the
grounds of their alma
mater, Worcester
College, Oxford, Alex's
life as he knew it
vanishes.
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Mary undresses and wades
into the boating lake.
She dives and opens her
eyes. In the blur, she
perceives the outline of
a head - she reaches - a
dead bird. But she will
keep searching. Because
Mary's mother,
Meghranoush - a
ninety-four year-old
survivor of the genocide
of Armenians by the
Turkish army early in the
twentieth century - has
vanished.
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Tells a story of a young
'picture bride' who
travels from Korea to
Hawai'i in 1914. Instead
of the affluent young
husband and chance at an
education that she has
been promised, she is
married off to a poor,
embittered labourer who
takes his frustrations
out on his new wife.
Renaming herself Jin,
she makes her own way in
this strange land.
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Portia Davenport is the
luckiest woman in the
world. She and her
gorgeous husband,
Andrew, have just
finished ploughing a
fortune into renovating
her ancestral home,
Davenport Hall, and are
now planning to unveil it
as one of the most
fabulous, luxurious,
five-star country house
hotels in Kildare. But
life never turns out like
you think.
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When Susannah Nelson
turned eighteen, her
parents sent her to
school abroad. She said
goodbye to her boyfriend,
Jake - and never saw him
again. Years later,
Susannah finds herself
regretting the paths not
taken. Long married, a
mother and a teacher she
should be happy. But
there's something
missing. Returning to her
parents' house, her
girlhood friends and the
garden she's always
loved, she also returns
to the past - and the
choices she made back
then. What she discover
is that things are not
always as they once
seemed. Some paths are
dead ends, but some are
the start of new
beginnings...
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What if Noah, after
completing the ark but
still awaiting the
arrival of the animals,
took a time travelling
holiday in modern Dorset?
This title explores how
Noah discovers for
himself and for a family
of sceptics, in one of
the rainiest countries in
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Using plot developments,
themes, and passages
from A Pair of Blue Eyes
and other texts, this
work explores what it
means to create - and
sometimes even to steal,
featuring philosophy and
tangential histories on
subjects like Logan's
Run, Dr Pepper, circus
freaks, the Olympics,
the opera, and the race
to discover the secrets
of time travel.
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Best known in the States
for his work on the
Warren icon, Vampirella,
Sanjulian has been
rightly called 'an
artist's artist' for his
brilliant sense of
composition and use of
colour. This title
features a full colour
gallery of Sanjulian's
favourite paintings.
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Danielle is resentful
when her mother cannot
afford to send her to art
school. She loses job
after job when her temper
gets the better of her,
so when she discovers
that her mother gave
birth to her as a
surrogate child for a
wealthy couple but then
could not part with her,
she decides to go in
search of the parents she
should have had.
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It was Gemma Garvey's
choice to end her
marriage to David and go
at it alone with two
kids, so why is she so
upset when he marries
that bimbo Orla O'Neill?
Both had been wives to
David and he had loved
them both, when he
married Orla he didn't
envisage any problems.
But the trouble is only
just about to start.
Follow the journey of a
modern-style marriage
with a rollercoaster
ride. The size of the
book is 19.7cm in height
and 12.8cm wide with 599
pages.
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For the original Gossip
Girland The Vampire
Diaries fan who's grown
up comes a new richly
gothic contemporary
series about the darkness
lurking behind the gilded
halls of New York high
society, and the elite
Upper East Side Witches
who rule Park Avenue.
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Herzog is alone now that
Medeleine has left him.
Locked for days in the
custody of his rambling
memories, Herzog scrawls
frantic letters which he
never mails. His mind
buzzes with conundrums
and polemics, writing in
a spectacular
intellectual labyrinth.
Is he crazy, or is he a
genius?
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Forced to take employment
as live-in carer for a
genius quadriplegic
undergraduate, failed
actor Timothy Salt is not
optimistic. His charge,
Michael Owen, is only at
Oxford to please his
devoted mum. When ersatz
aristo Phillip Sydney
offers the leading role
in his student production
of Hamlet to Michael,
Timothy's humiliation
seems complete.
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Eva and Jake Kelly live
the high life in
Manhattan. But they get
their thrills from the
con. However, when one
of their marks turns on
them after they demand
blackmail money, their
days of fun look to be
over. Then, Eva comes up
with a plan. But, not
every con can end
perfectly.
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Abigail Rosen, nicknamed
Appassionata, was the
sexiest, most flamboyant
violinist in classical
music, but she was also
the loneliest and the
most exploited girl. When
a dramatic suicide
attempt destroyed her
violin career, she set
her sights on the
male-dominated heights of
the conductor's rostrum.
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Harry Goldfarb, heroin
addict and son of lonely
widow Sara, cares only
about enjoying the good
life with girlfriend
Marion and best friend
Tyrone C Love, and
making the most of all
the hash, poppers and
dope they can get. Sara
Goldfarb sits at home
with the TV, dreaming of
the life she could have
and struggling with her
own addictions.
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It's Jackson,
Mississippi, 1962. Miss
Skeeter, Aibileen and
Minny. No one would
believe they'd be
friends; fewer still
would tolerate it. But as
each woman finds the
courage to cross
boundaries, they come to
depend and rely upon one
another. Each is in a
search of a truth. And
together they have an
extraordinary story to
tell...
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Tony Webster and his
clique first met Adrian
Finn at school.
Sex-hungry and
book-hungry, they would
navigate the girl-less
sixth form together,
trading in affectations,
in-jokes, rumour and
wit. Maybe Adrian was a
little more serious than
the others, certainly
more intelligent, but
they all swore to stay
friends for life.
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Woolf's second novel
paints a picture of the
London intelligentsia
before World War I. It
portrays the author's
sister Vanessa in the
character of Katherine
Hilbery, the gifted
daughter of a
distinguished literary
family who is trapped in
a stifling environment
and unable to express
herself.
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The European Space Agency
wants to land its Space
Shuttles on a runway in
Europe and picks a
stretch of South
Lincolnshire fenland for
it. The plan involves the
total destruction of
Clagtoft, 8 miles from
Stumpleton. The villagers
fight the plan with
demonstrations and
marches.
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Miss Carrington and Lord
Tyson were as different
as night and day. In
fact, there was only one
thing in the world on
which they agreed. Both
would do anything to
avoid the trap of
marriage, even if their
only way of escape lay in
pretending to love each
other.
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Presents the story of
three weeks in Tehran in
February 1979: three
weeks of fanaticism,
passion, self-sacrifice
and heartbreak. Caught
between the
revolutionaries and the
forces of international
intrigue is a team of
professional pilots. They
are ordered to flee to
safety with their
helicopters.
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