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‘Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is one of these' GuardianA powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-01-31
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It is 1995 and Noa and Amir have decided to move in together. Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a psychology student in Tel Aviv, so they choose a tiny flat in a village in the hills, between the two cities. Their flat is separated from that of their...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-01-31
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When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming,...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-01-31
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Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics. 'We lose everything because...
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Penguin
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2013-01-31
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Emma Roberts leaves home for the first time in her twenties, travelling to Paris to study seventeenth-century garden design. There, she meets vivacious Françoise Desnoyers and is quickly drawn into her passionate and complicated world. But Françoise's demands -...
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Penguin
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2013-01-24
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'She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought, without knowing why she sought it, something to lift the spirits, to transport her on an imaginary journey, to give a hint of the transcendence which was so blatantly lacking in her everyday life of words...
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Penguin
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2013-01-24
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It's Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday and the Leekes are a little unusual: they are Lancastrian Mormons, and this evening their son Gary will return from 2 years as a missionary in Salt Lake City.His mother is planning a celebratory dinner -...
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Sceptre
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2013-01-17
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When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of a blighted new town, Danny and his Indian girlfriend Surinder create a fragile haven...
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Sceptre
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2013-01-17
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A suitcase of stolen cash has brought three criminals together. One has a bullet in his side. One has blood on his hands. One has vengeance on his mind. Each has run from their past. Each will now fight for their future.A modern noir thriller, The Low Road highlights...
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Riverrun
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2013-01-17
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Mitch Albom's TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE meets Nicholas Sparks, THE BOOK OF WHY by Nicholas Montemarano is an original, arresting story of love and human joy.'Remarkable...as dark and dazzling as a mine shaft studded with diamonds' - The New York Times Book Review Eric...
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Review
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2013-01-03
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Paul Kinder, a novelist with one forgotten book to his name, teaches creative writing in a university in the north-west of England. Either he's researching his second, breakthrough novel, or he's killing time having sex in cars.Either eternal life exists, or it doesn't....
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Vintage Digital
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2013-01-03
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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOKCLUBThe Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young.Kate found an escape from the legacy of their dark past in her passion for the natural world. Now a zoologist...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-12-31
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Ethan and Jorie, a perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love.Ethan is a pillar of the community, but 13 years ago he committed a brutal rape and murder. A young girl's phone call exposes him, and nothing will ever be the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-12-31
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In these words, the extraordinary, ordinary world of Stanley Middleton is delicately conjured: a finite world of infinite possibilities, the pattern there subliminally for his characters, but just out of reach. When Henry Shelton, a widower who teachers Latin part-time...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-12-31
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The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous...
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Penguin
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2012-12-06
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Sam Pulsifer has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house - and unwittingly killing two people in the process. He emerged aged twenty-eight and set about creating a new...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-11-30
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Everything You Know is the first novel from the bestselling author of Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller.The women in Willy Muller's life are trouble.His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen,...
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Penguin
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2012-11-29
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A seductive mystery novel from the acclaimed author of Dark Water'Sparkling . . . glowing with wit' Hilary Mantel'A mystery story, a love story and a comedy of errors . . .A compelling debut that entertains and unsettles in equal measure' Guardian Mawle House. The...
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Riverrun
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2012-11-15
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SMALL, WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED.If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but what most people need is something smaller and more manageable. Of course there are...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-11-15
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Susan Vreeland's GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE was shortlisted for the ABA Best Novel of the Year award, and is a hugely absorbing fictional portrait of Vermeer's daughter sure to appeal to any reader of THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Tracy Chevalier. 'Subtle and...
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Review
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2012-11-08
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