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In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a pious...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
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Meet Chloe Zhivago, 43, married - and asking, is that it? Monogamy forever and ever...? A brilliantly entertaining novel from a major new talent in women's fiction.Chloe has been married for what feels like all eternity to Greg who tests his memory in infuriating ways,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-11-25
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Paris 1940. The civilised, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson ends with the German occupation of the city. Out of money and almost out of luck, Casson attempts to work with a German film company but finds himself drawn into the dark world of espionage and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
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A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
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'Think The Devil Wears Prada with paintbrushes' GraziaLacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm.She sparkles in auction houses, selling Old Master paintings to the fabulously wealthy, and in edgy Downtown...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
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Absorbed in her own failings, 43-year-old Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara moves the three children and their terrible...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-11-23
ePub
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'Spellbinding' NEW YORK TIMES'Entrancingly good' FINANCIAL TIMES'A narrative gift that can raise the hairs at the top of the spine' SUNDAY TIMESIn the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-18
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The author of international phenomenon THE READER returns with a tale of old jealousies, explosive politics and uncertain futures. Meet the Baader-Meinhof Group, 25 years on...Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-04
ePub
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Fairness is about Helen, the tiny, blonde, serious girl whom the narrator meets when they are both looking after children during a summer vacation in Normandy. Her adventures in search of a morally satisfying life lead her into situations that are neither satisfying nor...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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Rudolf Waltz's principal objection to life was that it was too easy to make horrible mistakes. He was himself to become a double-murderer at the age of twelve - on Mother's Day. This would at least make subsequent mistakes seem fairly trivial. Rudolf's father, Otto...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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The man who rode Ampersand was in fact, an amateur jockey named Harry Cotton. Harry is a compulsive gambler.The resulting decline in his fortunes takes him through three decades of adventures, melancholy, heroic, and comic by turn, which cut a broad swathe of disorder...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2010-10-21
ePub
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July, 1964. In bed at home in Kent, Winston Churchill is waking up. There's a visitor in the room, someone he hasn't seen for a while, a dark, mute bulk, watching him with tortured concentration. It's Mr Chartwell.In her terraced house in Battersea, Esther Hammerhans,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-10-07
ePub
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Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2010-10-04
ePub
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An unforgettably warm novel from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends.'An adept storyteller with a sharp eye for social nuances and a pleasing affection for her characters' Sunday Times'Maeve Binchy has a gimlet eye for the seething...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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Don Jubilo entered the world smiling rather than crying like other babies, and his life mission is to bring happiness to everyone's lives. Even as a young boy, acting as interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he mistranslates...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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Heads You Win is a tragicomedy of second chances. After taking early retirement, Gus Cotton is surprised to find himself persuaded by two old friends - a disgraced wheeler-dealer and a convicted drug smuggler - into taking on the City by launching the greatest...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought and memory, encourages...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them.Pobby and Dingan are imaginary. Ashmol Williamson, Kellyanne's brother thinks his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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From playing panto in Grimsby to hosting the highest rated light entertainment show in the history of British television, this is the story of one extraordinary year in the life of minor TV personality and serial bad dresser, Simon Peters...Simon languishes on the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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