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When old school friends get together it's supposed to be a laugh - but not when you've got something to hide...Critically acclaimed author Emily Barr digs up the past for four school friends when they reunite in France. Out of my Depth is a tale of friends and...
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Review
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2010-11-11
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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you are facing the Weekend From Hell.You don't know the half of it!Obviously, before the market reopens on Monday,...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-10-31
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A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life.A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes...
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2010-10-14
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It's autumn 2008 and Matt Freeman is having a very bad day. Stuck in Canary Wharf, he's overwhelmed by shoddy merchandise, hollow corporations and broken promises. Later that night, things only get worse when he drops in on his girlfriend, Bobbie, a fashion PR and...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD'[A] searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers' Susan SontagLonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-05-25
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Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-05-25
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A Delicious Recipe for Domestic Disaster:Take one small town where everyone thinks they know everyone else's business. Add three households:MP Mike Andrews, his wife Gill and two young children;Church of Scotland minister Tom Graham, his wife Ali, two teenage daughters...
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Headline
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2010-04-01
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When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church, late and sad, for her Great Aunt Mary’s funeral, she has no idea that her life is about to change completely. Still grieving for her broken relationship with the vain, mean and unfaithful Ted, and trying to come to terms with...
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Review
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2010-03-04
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On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago - a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God - the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles away his time drinking and fishing, but when one bloody night he...
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Orion
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2010-02-18
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‘It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary’Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-01-26
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'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror A gritty tale of hard time, hard men and hard drugs for fans of Martina Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell and Kerry Barnes.When Mary's mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend...
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Orion
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2009-09-03
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One windy April afternoon, a young woman bicycles alone along a stretch of Iowa highway. She's pedaling hard, hurrying to get home in time for dinner . . . Alex Voormann is a cerebral thirty-year-old archaeologist married to the woman of his dreams--a beautiful,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009-02-03
ePub
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'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance,...
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Penguin
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2009-01-29
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Belle, restless and sleepless, is alone in her vast new house while her husband works abroad. Dangerously idle, she invites the alluring and damaged Tina, a local waitress with a violent boyfriend, to become her lodger – even though she barely knows her.Gradually Belle...
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Penguin
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2008-06-26
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A heart-stopping novel from the WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliantly plotted thrilling fable unravelling dark, sad secrets' Mail on Sunday'There are things you should know about blackmail . . . 'At thirty-eight Simone has responsibilities: she's a...
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Penguin
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2008-03-27
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With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel.Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close:...
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Penguin
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2008-03-27
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Irene has a husband, Adrian, three small children and - though she doesn't know it - a marriage that is going wrong. When she discovers that Adrian is having an affair, the family is blown apart.Solace is a story of contrasts. While Adrian finds new love and...
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Penguin
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2005-03-31
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Pubblicato postumo, questo romanzo-testamento rappresenta il compimento più alto e amaro della parabola artistica di Carlo Dossi. Più che una semplice autobiografia, è l’autopsia di un’anima, il resoconto disincantato e ferocemente autoironico di una vita spesa ai...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
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Un “altrieri” che non è un remoto passato, ma un tempo sospeso e vibrante, quello dell’adolescenza. In questo capolavoro della scapigliatura, Carlo Dossi riversa, con un’ironia velata di malinconia, il ritratto di un’educazione sentimentale e intellettuale. Il giovane...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
epub sans DRM
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In una notte tempestosa, in un castello dalle ombre inquiete, il conte Alberto Wimpfen è solo, divorato da una passione che è anche un tormento: il gioco degli scacchi. Ma la sua non è una comune partita. Il suo avversario è forse un'emanazione del proprio io più...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
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