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'The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive' WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction of a dark criminal...
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Penguin
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2007-10-25
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This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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When Mary Abacus dies, she leaves her business empire in the hands of the warring Solomon family. Hawk Solomon is determined to bring together both sides of the tribe - but it is the new generation who must fight to change the future. Solomons are pitted against...
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". the Houses of York and Lancaster are locked in a brutal struggle for England's crown...
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the...
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Penguin
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2007-09-27
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An adventure brimming with colour, energy and humour -- the acclaimed debut novel from the author of White TearsThis is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night, a boy destined to be an outsider, a man with many names and no name.Born into...
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Penguin
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2007-09-06
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The author of Any Small Thing Can Save You, a collection of stories, now pens a moving and lyrically written debut novel of love and rodeo in the American West.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2007-09-03
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From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the...
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Penguin
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2007-08-02
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Britannia, 117 AD
Primitive, cold, and a touch damp
Welcome to the most remote corner of the Roman Empire
For army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso, this overseas posting is no picnic. He has vast debts, a slave girl too clever for her own good and an overbearing hospital...
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Penguin
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2007-07-05
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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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