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This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-11-17
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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2008-11-15
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FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A gloriously funny ride through modern times' Evening Standard Damian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has but one concern, which is becoming more urgent at the weeks go by: who should...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-10-30
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It's all dry sand running through the fingers.' When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-10-30
Collection :
Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
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From the author of the bestselling memoir, The History of Swimming, comes a novel about Truman Capote, Harper Lee, and the ghosts of the Clutters, the Kansas farm family murdered fifty years ago, in cold blood. Kim Powers imagines the truths Capote and Lee uncovered in...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-10-20
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James, a first-year student at Cambridge, is overwhelmed by the thrill of opportunity and startled by his own hunger for friendship. He finds himself seduced by a covert and exclusive circle of friends - the 'Tudor Night Climbers' - who scale the university's turrets...
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Transworld Digital
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2008-10-14
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Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department,...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-10-14
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Zoë Heller's darkly comic third novel, The Believers explores a family pushed to its limits. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Anna Karenina in half the timeAnna Karenina is the heart-wrenching tale of a woman who recklessly throws away everything she has for a passionate affair with a young soldier. Beautiful, popular, wife to a wealthy man and mother to an adored son,Anna seems to be in an...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2008-09-18
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An imaginative, intriguing and dark fairytale.After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest - and suspicion - as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-09-18
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One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-11
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One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-11
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‘Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal’ The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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'In a town like Beechnall there are all sorts of rivalries, enmities and feuds.' And many of them soon swirl around the amateur dramatic society's festival production of Twelfth Night, which is under a cloud after politics result in the departure of the established...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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What are The Pages?On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy.Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of the local inn's carvery. But things are about to change when the beautiful Aminpour sisters -- Marjan, Bahar and...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water.Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.In her grief she begins to investigate Henrik's death and when...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Discover this magnificent magical novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight's Children. When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
Collection :
Vintage Magic
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