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By: Francis Duncan

ISBN: 9781784703455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests.


(Paperback)

By: Francis Duncan

ISBN: 9781784704810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas

When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind.


(Paperback)

By: Gladys Mitchell

ISBN: 9781784708320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Ada Moncrieff

ISBN: 9781529113297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's Christmas at Westbury Manor and amateur detective Hugh Gaveston must unravel a fiendish mystery...

Christmas Eve, 1938.


(Paperback)

By: Rose Tremain

ISBN: 9780099268550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.' John Julius Norwich

In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.


(Hardback)

By: Julia Blackburn

ISBN: 9780224082341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.


(Paperback)

By: Billy O'Callaghan

ISBN: 9781784708764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*

On a bitterly cold winters afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous.


(Paperback)

By: Gary Imlach

ISBN: 9780224072687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a soccer story.


(Hardback)

By: Joseph O'Connor

ISBN: 9781787300828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099561231
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW

In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.


(Paperback)

By: Philip Roth

ISBN: 9780099515319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis.


(Paperback)

By: Emmanuel Carrre

ISBN: 9781784705817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As a writer, Carrre is straight berserk Junot Daz

In this non-fiction novel road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force Emmanuel Carrre pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War;


(Paperback)

By: Steve Almond

ISBN: 9780099443629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence.


(Paperback)

By: Margaret Forster

ISBN: 9780099593973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.

So begins Margaret Forsters journey through the houses shes lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today.


(Hardback)

By: Guy Browning

ISBN: 9781910931585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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or fans of Adrian Mole and Nick Hornby and readers of all ages, this is a novel for the listicle generation.


(Paperback)

By: Gordon Brown

ISBN: 9781784707460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 24th May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Reflecting on the personal and ideological tensions within Labour and its successes and failures in power, he describes how to meet the challenge of pursuing a radical agenda within a credible party of government.


(Hardback)

By: Harry Dodge

ISBN: 9781787302341
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Amos Oz

ISBN: 9780099529057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires.


(Paperback)

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

ISBN: 9781529115055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Willa Cather

ISBN: 9781784874445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Willa Cathers best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska.

When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant ntonia Shimerda.


(Paperback)

By: Emmeline Pankhurst

ISBN: 9781784874469
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPS

Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for womens suffrage.


(Paperback, Media tie-in)

By: Emmeline Pankhurst

ISBN: 9781784871253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The great leader of the womens suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.

Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women.


(Paperback)

By: Douglas Galbraith

ISBN: 9780099552680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What do you do when your wife abducts your children He has not seen them since.

This book goes to the very heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races and nations - to the heart of what it is to be alive.


(Paperback)

By: Rian Malan

ISBN: 9780099583462
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag.

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