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James Miranda Barry (UK Edition)
by Patricia Duncker  Synopsis At the turn of the 19th century, James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon, famed as a physician, duellist and social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman, who passed...
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Bird Hospital
by Anna Wigley Synopsis This collection of poetry focuses on the mysteries and intricacies of the natural world. Author Anna Wigley was featured in the anthology "Oxygen ("Seren"), but this is her first solo collection....
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Oh What a Perfect Day! (UK Edition)
by Barbara Richards Synopsis 'OH WHAT A PERFECT DAY' charts the ups and downs (mostly downs) of a society wedding day, seen through the eyes of AMANDA, a young bride, SARAH, who finds herself a waitress at her estranged daughters' wedding, and ALAIN, a neurotic gay French waiter, to...
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Harstairs House (UK Edition)
by Amanda Grange Publisher Comments When Susannah Thorpe inherits Harstairs House she finds more than she bargains for, as the house has a tenant in the broodingly handsome shape of Oliver Bristow....
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Three Novels: "A Strange and Sublime Address", " Afternoon Raag", "Freedom Song" (UK Edition)
by Amit Chaudhuri Synopsis Three stories that detail everyday urban life with sensitivity and humour, whether it's America, England or an Indian city. Each story, individually, has won awards....
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Landlocked (UK Edition)
by Doris Lessing Synopsis The fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The others are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple...
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Mara and Dann (UK Edition)
by Doris Lessing Synopsis It is sooner than one might think. The earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange...
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Signalman (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments A gripping ghost story set in the Victorian England....
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Picture Maker (UK Edition)
by Penina Spinka Synopsis Set in the world of 14th-century America, the girl known as Picture Maker, because of her great ability at drawing and prophecy, is the daughter of one of the warriors and the granddaughter of the clan leader. High adventure, love, loss, and survival...
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Plainsong (UK Edition)
by Kent Haruf Synopsis Pregnant, homeless teenager Victoria Roubideaux is taken in by two uncommunicative cattle-farming brothers, Raymond and Harold. Teacher Tom Guthrie is bringing up alone his two sons, Ike and Bobby, after his wife's retreat from life. This is the story of...
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Rage (UK Edition)
by Wilbur Smith Synopsis It is 1952. Bitterly divided by the struggles of their native land, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of all South Africans, white and black alike. But revolution is in the air and Shasa Courtney finds he must choose between his...
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Fact Or Fiction (UK Edition)
by Tony Browning Synopsis A tongue in cheek horror story that will test your spirituality, too see how much knowledge you have on subjects that have long since been considered taboo. Where are you going when your physical body has had enough of constantly fighting the pain and...
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Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (UK Edition)
by Synopsis An anthology of Chinese stories written since the demise of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Offering an insight into a changing culture, this collection concentrates on the literature arising from China in the 1980s....
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When the Lion Feeds (UK Edition)
by Wilbur Smith Synopsis Into the wilds of Natal in the 1870s are born Sean and Garrick Courtney, twin brothers who could not be more different. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening...
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Romantics (UK Edition)
by Pankaj Mishra Synopsis A first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares, losing himself in books and solitude. Here, he meets Catherine, a French woman who stands at the centre of...
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London Observed : Stories and Sketches
by Doris Lessing Synopsis Eighteen stories depicting the people and places of London, full of the observation and compassion characteristic of Lessing....
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Another Elvis Love Child (UK Edition)
by Janette Jenkins Synopsis This tragi-comic novel explores family life through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, who has a few dodgy friends, market-stall clothes and a burnt-out school. It evokes Bolton in the 1970s with an undertow of frustrated violence and a backbeat of Elvis...
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Few Little Lies (UK Edition)
by Sue Welfare Synopsis Dora is in her forties, divorced and under no illusions about her personal appearance. She is also secretly a successful writer of erotica. Dora's agent arranges a promotional tour, but Dora just doesn't look the part. He hires a glamorous substitute...
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To Room Nineteen (UK Edition)
by Doris Lessing Synopsis From "To Room Nineteen", a study of a controlled middle class marriage "grounded in intelligence", to the shocking "A Woman on the Roof", where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this collection of stories bears witness to Doris Lessing...
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They Came Like Swallows (UK Edition)
by William Maxwell Synopsis A sensitive portrait of an American family and of the complex woman who is its emotional pillar. To eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is an angelic comforter; to his older brother, Robert, she is someone who must be protected; and to James Morison, his...
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