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'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 'By turns touching and profoundly sad' SpectatorWhen a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return...
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Sceptre
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2007-02-22
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'Outstanding, a sheer pleasure to read. Dunmore is a remarkable storyteller' Daily Mail***From the author of Inside the Wave, the Costa Book of the Year 2017***Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its...
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Penguin
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2007-02-01
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Set in England during World War I, this haunting love story by the author of the bestselling The Fig Eater makes unforgettably real the ravages of love and war.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2006-12-01
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Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case,Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united...
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Penguin
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2006-09-28
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The enthralling story of a refugee from Nazi Germany and his voyage to a new life across the Atlantic'A moving and heartening story in which spirit triumphs over political barbarity' Edna O'Brien'Brilliant use of a momentous journey . . . A gripping and adroit fusion of...
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Arcadia Books
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2006-09-01
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The Wave Theory of Angels is Alison MacLeod's compelling mixture of thriller and philosophical exploration.Two widowed fathers named Giles.The first, woodcarver Giles of Beauvais in thirteenth-century France, whose unearthly skill leads the medieval Church to suspect...
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Penguin
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2006-08-31
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First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging...
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Penguin
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2006-08-31
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A story of the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against the odds In a small town like any other small towns around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the...
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E-Penguin
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2006-08-28
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The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast...
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Penguin
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2006-08-03
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A warm and witty novel from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler.'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with...
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Penguin
Parution :
2006-07-27
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The son of an Edinburgh merchant, Hope had a spectacular beginning to his career: at the age of seventeen, before he had even finished his legal education, he travelled to France to triumph in his first court case and caught the attention of his young king, James VI. It...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2006-05-08
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William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian...
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Penguin
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2006-04-06
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But...
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Penguin
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2006-03-30
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An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-01-26
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An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.
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Penguin
Parution :
2005-09-29
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When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she discovers that it is to be rehoused on the premises of the old boys' home Heaven House. At the time Kitty had been inseparable from one of its inmates,...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2005-05-12
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The story of a lost film about the relationship between Adolf Hitler and the English aristocrat Unity Mitford'A wonderful novel, written with exceptional knowledge and understanding of past and present Germany' Gitta Sereny'The most intriguing and thought-provoking...
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Arcadia Books
Parution :
2005-05-01
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One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-03-31
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