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Third in Allan Massie's celebrated Dark Ages seriesA truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-08
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'Pip Vaughan-Hughes has given us a monk, a corpse, a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure that romps across mediaeval Christendom. A great read!' Bernard CornwellEngland, 1235, and Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk. Struggling to keep his soul...
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Orion
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2011-12-08
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Unholy Relics
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'Pip Vaughan-Hughes has given us a monk, a corpse, a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure that romps across mediaeval Christendom' Bernard CornwellThe stunning sequel to RELICS - and on a truly monumental scale...In the darkness of 13th Century Europe, the most...
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Orion
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2011-12-08
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Unholy Relics
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'Pip Vaughan-Hughes has given us a monk, a corpse, a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure that romps across mediaeval Christendom' Bernard Cornwell1242 AD and Europe is in flames once more. The King of France, Louis, has decided to stamp out the heretic faith of...
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Orion
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2011-12-08
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Unholy Relics
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A heart-broken head-hunter turns ruthless Cupid, using her skills to find wives for her demanding city clients. Until she's asked to find the perfect husband...Becca Orchard is the Bride Hunter... the woman filthy rich executives turn to when they decide it's time to...
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Orion
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2011-12-01
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Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student, Irish American with an English Accent, maroon in the ould country and dreaming of dollars and ready women, stumbles from the public house to the pawnbrokers, murmuring...
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Abacus
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2011-12-01
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With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-12-01
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'Florence...
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Penguin
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2011-12-01
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Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something...
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Penguin
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2011-12-01
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Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathbed unleashing a turmult of myth, legend and brute fact. Confronted by the realities of a...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley, but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may. Only in the shelter of the high hedgerows down in the lanes streaked...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood – until it decrees that it is no longer interested in his humble wares. Together with his...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. .' John Fowles...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux’s characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer...
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Penguin
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2011-11-24
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The frozen wastes of North America are Michael Collins?s heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this novel of murder and menace. Twenty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Northern town. Now, his uncle is...
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Phoenix
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2011-11-10
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A thoroughly gripping novel about small town intrigue and corruption from the Booker-shortlisted author of THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH and THE RESURRECTIONISTS.'The thinking man's John Grisham' New StatesmanThe body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-11-10
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Following the phenomenal popularity of Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, Dickens produced two short volumes of Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples, in response to the appearance of Sketches of Young Ladies by 'Quiz'. Each volume purports to dissect the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-11-10
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