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1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajkull glacier in Iceland.

Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board.

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Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe.

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A highly original, piercingly beautiful work, full of beautiful shocks I felt like a door had been kicked open in my brain Johanna Thomas-Corr, Observer

A woman searches Buenos Aires for the paintings that are her inspiration and her refuge.

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- Cast a stunning concrete plant pot.
- Build a childs treehouse with cling film.

There are ideas for projects for everyone from repairing and reinventing worn out trainers, to bigger projects such as the wood-clad car and the stylish hairy chair.

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He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men.

In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him.

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An epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work. It shows what it was like to be around Welles, and, what it was like to be him, in which lies the answer to the old riddle: whatever happened to Orson Welles

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Orwell's ambition to create a fairer and more egalitarian society is essential inspiration as we strive for freedom and equality in today's world.

'If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'

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Drawing on previously unseen material, D J Taylor offers a portrait of the writer often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life; who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, and battled through illness to produce two masterpieces of the 20th century.

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When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights.

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Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children.

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Volume 20 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

In 'Reflections on Gandhi', published in January 1949, in which he modified the strictures made in a previous review, Orwell wrote, 'our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have'.

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. There is no time for delays or even for winning

But after the fifth bottle of alco-pop on the bus it's clear that all is not going to plan, for anyone.

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Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.

With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors.

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A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right, but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning.

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The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental' William Boyd

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY

John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met.