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By: Alison Weir

ISBN: 9780099532675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor.


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By: Dinaw Mengestu

ISBN: 9780099502739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C.


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By: Trutz Hardo

ISBN: 9781844132980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this book, children from all around the world remember their past lives, and eminent scientists explain how many of these children's stories have been followed up to verify whether their statements have any foundation in fact.


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By: Sunjeev Sahota

ISBN: 9781784706364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the china room, heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which brother is hers.


(Hardback)

By: Molly Bakes

ISBN: 9780224098601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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They include:

-Techniques (like Chocolate Cups)
-Filled chocolates (like Salted Caramel)
-Iconic choc bars (like Homemade Snickers)
-Classic chocolatey bakes (like the Ultimate Chocolate Cake)
-No bake treats (like Rocky Road)
-Seasonal treats (like Fondant-filled Easter Eggs)


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By: Jason Donald

ISBN: 9780099527060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ruling the family through fear, it is only when he abandons them for a teenage lover that their problems really begin.

Exposing the rotten, insidious patterns of fathering that most societies still ignore, Choke Chain shows two boys struggling to find steady ground in a disintegrating household.


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By: Rowan Dobson

ISBN: 9781529110364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A collection of the wonderful variety of styles, stories and personalities of our favourite Christmas companions.

With a unique perspective atop the tree, Christmas Angels are the ultimate observers of the festive period.


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By: Paul Durcan

ISBN: 9781860462887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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For anyone who has ever had too much of Christmas or felt left out of the festive cheer, Christmas Day contains a lifeline of humour and sanity in a world run seasonally mad. This is a piercingly honest, sad and funny poem about two men spending Christmas Day together.


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By: Jeanette Winterson

ISBN: 9781784709020
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099286851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A coming-of-age novel that moves from genteel British society to the grim underworld of Paris before the war. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest friends.


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By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099561071
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation.


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By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099555827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, and more.


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By: Derek Jarman

ISBN: 9780099474913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1995
UK Publication Date: 19th January 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A meditation on the colour spectrum by the painter, poet and film-maker, Derek Jarman. He explains the use of colour in medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists. It also discusses the meaning of colour in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy.


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By: Umberto Eco

ISBN: 9781784705206
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

ISBN: 9781847925732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

ISBN: 9781529110999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: MD Villiers

ISBN: 9780099581352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Siphiwe, a nineteen-year-old orphan, is haunted by memories of the senseless death of his elder brother. When a woman selling mangoes is stabbed on the street in front of him, Siphiwe rushes to her aid, desperate to stop history repeating itself, but in doing so unwittingly crosses the paths of two very dangerous men set on revenge and betrayal.


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By: Kevin Barry

ISBN: 9780099549154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award**

A electrifying masterpiece Joseph OConnor

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines.


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By: Ian MacKenzie

ISBN: 9780099531852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Paul Metzger's life is in a state of disrepair; One winter afternoon he travels into New York to visit three people; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves.

But Paul soon realises that he is being watched, and it is this fourth, unplanned and violent, encounter that will chanage more than one life, forever.


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By: Laurent Binet

ISBN: 9781529112818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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So, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and, when the Aztecs arrive on the scene, for a great war that will change history forever.

Civilisations is a wildly entertaining counterfactual story about the modern world, colonisation, empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination.


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By: George Saunders

ISBN: 9781784871291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen

'There is no-one better, no-one more essential' Dave Eggers


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By: Janice Galloway

ISBN: 9780099750512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Based on the life of Clara Schumann, this novel considers the place of love in a life of increasing isolation and alienation. Clara, herself a celebrated pianist, composer and teacher, was the wife of Robert Schumann, and cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses.


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By: Emmanuel Carrre

ISBN: 9781784876159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY

Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination the child of an overbearing father.


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By: Colette

ISBN: 9780099422525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

The second book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.

Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny for a new life in Paris.

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