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By: Boualem Sansal
ISBN: 9781408843994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 9781844088607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The classic first novel from acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said ... is a dark and gripping story of adolescent transgression set in a 1950s seaside resort.
(Hardback)
By: Bob the Drag Queen
ISBN: 9781668061978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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From Rupauls Drag Race All Star and host of HBOs WERE HERE comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation and music.
(Paperback)
By: Jilly Cooper
ISBN: 9780552152518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 22nd April 2005
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine...
(Hardback, Main)
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN: 9780571365654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction - the true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s.
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By: Jim Crace
ISBN: 9780330445672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2014
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
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By: Shahnaz Ahsan
ISBN: 9781473665224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An extraordinary debut novel of family, migration and the desire for a homeland.
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By: Shahnaz Ahsan
ISBN: 9781473665255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An extraordinary debut novel of family, migration and the desire for a homeland.
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By: Alice Munro
ISBN: 9780099422747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Gibson
ISBN: 9781784973377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Three very different women struggle against incredible hardship in post-war South London.
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By: Marcia Willett
ISBN: 9780747254270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1997
UK Publication Date: 8th May 1997
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A warm-hearted novel in which the renovation of a mill shows how lives too can be rebuilt
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By: Kay Hooper
ISBN: 9780515153743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Martin Davies
ISBN: 9780340980477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger, HAVANA SLEEPING is the story of a British diplomat posted to Cuba in the 1850s who is confronted with murder, slavery and intrigue.
(Paperback)
By: William W. Johnstone
ISBN: 9780786043965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
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By: Imogen Edwards-Jones
ISBN: 9781802795660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Follow a year in the life of four good friends as they navigate husbands, lovers, children, careers (what's left of them) and question their harassed realities... Why did they get married Do they like their children Does lemon in your vodka and tonic count as one of your five a day
(Paperback)
By: Jenny Eclair
ISBN: 9780751536058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Funny, smart and refreshingly honest, Having a Lovely Time is all about infidelity, jealousy, resentment, recriminations and, just occasionally, love - from the Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Eclair
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By: Ronald Frame
ISBN: 9780571288304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A compelling prelude to Great Expectations, telling the story of Miss Havisham's early life, before heartbreak came to define her entirely.
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By: James A. Michener
ISBN: 9780375760372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A travel guide to the islands of Hawaii, including Molokia and Kauai, with information on where to eat, shopping, sightseeing and night spots.
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By: Sarah Hall
ISBN: 9780571315604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2026
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Haweswater by Sarah Hall has an intuitive sense for period and place; told in luminous prose, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been lost for many decades.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780141042015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches.
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By: Keith Ridgway
ISBN: 9781847085276
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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A novel peppered with unnerving scenes of real, confused London life, the lives of functioning-but-marginal Londoners revealed in all their vulnerabilities and misapprehensions, with immense observational brilliance.
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By: Sheila Everett
ISBN: 9781785761607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Zaffre
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A heart-warming novel from 'the queen of family saga'.
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By: Martin Duberman
ISBN: 9781583226711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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This is the story of Albert Parsons, the best known leader of the anarchist/socialist movement. At a time of bitter class war and a groundswell of working-class radicalism, the Haymarket Riot in 1886 produced a wave of hysteria across the nation, leading ultimately to the trial and hanging of Parsons and other leaders.
(Hardback)
By: Martin Duberman
ISBN: 9781583226186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Albert Parsons and wife Lucy Gonzalez fight for their political beliefs after the Haymarket Square riot of 1886, which results in a trial and death sentence for Albert.
