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A powerful and gripping historical thriller for fans of The Essex Serpernt and The Miniaturist. 'Original and evocative ... a mesmerising thriller' Daily Telegraph'Full of twists and turns' Scotsman'An enthralling exploration of revolutionary science in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-12-22
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Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-24
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'She'd never dreamt she'd wind up being a mum before she had a baby.' Can you ever be ready for a ready-made family?When Annie is swept off her feet by handsome widower Simon Keeler, she thinks all her dreams have come true. But Simon comes with baggage: seven-year-old...
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Orion
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2009-11-19
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity, and the ceaseless tussle of innocence versus...
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Vintage Digital
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2009-11-10
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The compelling story of two generations of a family - and the secrets they keep - from the bestselling author of THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOLBeside the River Needle is a willow, meeting place for generations of Needlewick girls. Suzanna is the elder daughter of the village...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-11-05
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Ellen McKinnon's clairvoyant experiences damage her mental and physical health. She must face and assimilate an unwanted but unavoidable family secret, experiencing a revelation that turns her life around in this insightful look at the rift between mysticism and...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2009-10-31
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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life,Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-29
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Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre.When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for her. This quiet, lonely girl must learn quickly when she finds herself teaching in a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house in early 1900s South Africa. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert.One day a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own.Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends, the son and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Ever wondered what your boss does all day?Or if there is a higher - perhaps an existential - significance to Microsoft Word malfunctions?Filled with sabotage and romance and capturing the relentless monotony and paranoia of office life with unnerving precision, Personal...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years, and now, for the teenage soldiers who live there presiding over the last moments of Israel's presence in...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabián, who is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular. What's more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat world...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
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It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting, dole-scrounging, swapping drugs, clothes and beds. Fifteen years later they are drawn back into each other's lives but can they happily relive the past or will...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
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In July 1934, Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond. He saw his girl swimming there. He watched her floating and saw how white her skin was in the green water, her belly, her breasts, her pond-tangled hair. Then she turned over like an otter and dived down. She...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.'
The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-10
ePub
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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.'
The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-10
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