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'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!'
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-03-10
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'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!'
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-03-10
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Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach...
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Penguin
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2004-11-04
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Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately...
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Algonquin Books
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2004-09-24
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The Rules of Engagement is the twenty second novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac.Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though...
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Penguin
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2004-07-01
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**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she...
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Penguin
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2004-05-27
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The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his...
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Penguin
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2004-04-29
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Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEThe Thames runs throughDownriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants....
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Penguin
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2004-04-29
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Short stories from the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti'[These stories] simply and elegantly break your heart. They deserve a wide audience, and will create a wiser one' Amanda CraigArditti imbues his stories of loneliness, confusion and the...
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Arcadia Books
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2004-04-01
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On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who...
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Penguin
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2004-01-29
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A seductive and hugely suspenseful novel about what can happen when you look too closely into the past; The Photograph is the thirteenth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a...
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Penguin
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2004-01-29
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'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.'
So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.
ABOUT...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-10-09
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'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.'
Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-09-11
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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsA powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists' Daily...
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Penguin
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2003-08-28
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Dorian - Will Self's brilliant 'imitation' of Oscar Wilde's original tainted love story 'Brutal, savage, infinitely readable' Observer'Chilling, hysterical, tasteless and haunting. A Gothic thriller complementing and enriching its original' Independent on SundayIn the...
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Penguin
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2003-06-26
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'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.'
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-11-14
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When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the...
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Algonquin Books
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2002-08-16
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Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition – published in Penguin Modern Classics - is edited and translated with...
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Penguin
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2002-05-30
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'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!'
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-04-18
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Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when...
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Penguin
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2001-08-30
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