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Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner Paperback
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from spinsterhood
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Mr Straight Laurie Graham Paperback
The treacherous glitz of show business and the sublime madness of family relationships are brought to life in this hilarious and ultimately touching new novel from the bestselling author of The Future Homemakers of America and The Unfortunates.
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The Wire in the Blood Val McDermid Paperback
Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill, hero of the hugely successful television series "The Wire in the Blood". Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind.
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Tears of the Giraffe - No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency S. Bk.2 Alexander McCall Smith Paperback
'I was enchanted by the character of Precious Ramotswe and the sly humour of Alexander McCall Smith's writing, his deft evocation of a culture' - Anthony Minghella ** 'So elegant and understated is the author's style that the novel seems to transcend age' - Trevor Royle
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A mobile library mystery Mr. Dixon disappears Paperback
Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing—along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of course, he can't help himself—which costs him his job and earns him a place of dishonor among the police's prime suspects. Can Israel clear his name and get his van back? Will the exhibition of old local photos he's been driving around County Antrim offer clues to Mr. D.'s whereabouts? And is a romance in the offing with winsome barmaid Rosie Hart? All will be revealed!
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Life Class Pat Baker Paperback
In the spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville - himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter - makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other. Paul's new life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade. The longer he remains in Ypres, the greater the distance between himself and home becomes, and by the time he returns, Paul must confront the fact that life, and love, will never be the same again.
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Regeneration Pat Barker Paperback
Pat Barker’s Regeneration is the opening salvo in her trilogy of novels about the young men who fought in the First World War, the third of which-The Ghost Road- won the 1995 Booker Prize. Based on the real life meeting between the poet and anti-war protester Siegfried Sassoon and army psychologist W.H.R. Rivers in 1917, Regeneration is a vivid evocation of the agony of the Front as well as a powerful anthem for doomed youth.
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Any Human Heart (Penguin Celebrations) William Boyd Paperback
Any Human Heart is the story of a life lived to the full through the ups and downs of the twentieth century. Logan Mountstuart's diary tells of an ordinary man living an extraordinary life- a soldier, a spy, and an art-dealer- and searching for happiness during wartime, the swinging sixties, and through his own bittersweet success. it takes us on a unique journey deep into a very human heart.
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She Came To Stay Simone De Beauvoir Paperback
Published in 1943, She Came To Stay is Simone De Beauvoir's first novel. Written as an act of revenge upon Olga Kosakievicz, the woman who nearly disrupted her now legendary relationship with Jean- Paul Sartre it is among the most powerful pieces of fictional autobiography of the twentieth century.
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The Last Continent Terry Pratchett Paperback
There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics.Especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately in the hands of such an inept and cussed group of individuals, the sensitive issue of causality is sadly only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another....
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Quiet Girl Peter Hoeg Paperback
Kasper Krone, a world-renowned Danish clown with exceptional powers of hearing, has a deep love for the music of Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him a reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children. When one of the children goes missing a year later , Krone sets off to rescue the young girl but on the way makes a series of shocking discoveries about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards.
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Flashman And The Dragon George Macdonald Fraser Paperback
As China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way back to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flashman finds his services much in demand.There's the vicar's wife, desperate to sell her cargo of opium; the Amazonian bandit queen who, having mislaid five husbands is casting around for a sixth; Lord Elgin in need of an intelligence chief for a perilous mission to Peking; and the Emperor's ravishing concubine who would have the hairy barbarian shaved and perfumed anddelivered to her pavilion......
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