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Meet Jim Haskin. He runs his own San Francisco ad firm, American Weather. However, behind the scenes, Jim supports the old captains of American industry: bleach, beer, guns.

One day Jim is asked to come up with something extra-special.

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Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically lyrical style.

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In this examination of Amsterdam's soul, part history, part travel guide, the Dutch writer Geert Mak depicts the lives of the early Amsterdammers and traces the city's progress from a little town of merchants, sailors, farmers and fishermen into a thriving metropolis. He also provides his own insights into the psyche of Amsterdam's citizens.

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This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. In this role we meet Dorina, Austin's estranged wife, Mitzi, his alcoholic landlady, and a selection of other women who involve themselves in Austin's fate, with hilarious and appalling results.

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Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

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This volume contains three pieces of travel writing by Peter Matthiessen, who joined a number of expeditions to Africa in the 1970s and 1980s - "The Tree Where Man Was Born", "African Silences" and "Sand Rivers". The book contains an introduction by the author.

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Some cases arent as cold as youd think

Kurt Wallanders life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden the skeleton of a middle-aged woman.

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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years.

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An Experiment in Leisure shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth and what it means to be alive' Maxine Peake

'Can I get a refund' I asked the bus driver.
'You taking the piss, love'

It's January 2015, and Grace is supposed to have what she wants.

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An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.

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In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. Jowert has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and it's moving story of neighbours and their efforts to preserve their long established way of life is relevant to the changing face of the countryside everywhere in Europe.

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How does an Italian become Italian

In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at play.

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In December 2004, thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. This is an account of this uprising and the events that led to it. It talks about the judges who defied death threats, a murdered journalist, amateur musicians who composed an anthem, and soldiers who backed the opposition.

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Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. Both the dead man's son and gardener have motives for murder, but soon another candidate for the killing emerges.

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After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web.

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A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year

Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize
Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize


A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longleys home-from-home, his soul-landscape.

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It is January, 1914 and Jonathan Crane returns home from his travels with a new American bride, former Coney Island showgirl Beatrice. In the remote Lancashire village Beatrice is the focus of attention, the men captivated by her beauty, the women initially charmed by tales of her upbringing in Normal, Illinois.

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Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.

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In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals some fictional, others drawn from history gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.

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Angels of Destruction is the mesmerising story of Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialise out of thin air when she arrives one bitterly cold night on the doorstep of Margaret Quinn.

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Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war.

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How should we treat non-human animals In this book, the author addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the animal rights movement.