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By: Gunilla Norris

ISBN: 9781844135752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is divided into four sections: Beginning Silence which reflects on the understanding that longing and discontent is a wake-up call, an invitation to begin. Growing Silence which dwells on yearning itself as a path, with acceptance of the ambivalence which accompanies any deep change.


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By: Yashar Kemal

ISBN: 9781846559662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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After a particularly bad season, a group of poor cotton-pickers are unable to pay their creditor, shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Overwhelmed with shame and guilt, they wait in terror for Adil to come and demand retribution.


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By: Margaret Forster

ISBN: 9780099472131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot, Chrissie have in common This enthralling novel follows the ripples that go out into ordinary lives that have been changed by a shared experience, all connected by the same hospital clinic in a small Northern town.


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By: Margaret Forster

ISBN: 9780099542094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways.


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By: Rich Cohen

ISBN: 9781787330184
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Cohen relates Israel's story as that of a place long ago destroyed and transformed into an idea . From the medieval false prophets, to the nineteenth-century Zionists, and on to present-day figures like Ariel Sharon, Cohen tells the stories of the people obsessed with this fine line between place and idea, creation and destruction.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9780436210075
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Volume 19 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Much of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete Nineteen Eighty-Four and his fight against illness.


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By: Graham Greene

ISBN: 9780099282228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.


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By: James Lasdun

ISBN: 9780099512325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In sharply evoked settings that range from the wilds of Northern Greece to the beaches of Cape Cod, these intensely dramatic tales chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions.


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By: Per Petterson

ISBN: 9780099548386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend - but there are some things Audun won't talk about.


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By: Alan Root

ISBN: 9780099555889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africas wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, and also bear witness to a natural world now largely lost from view.


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By: Leo McKinstry

ISBN: 9780224083300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The astonishing feats of Sir Jack Hobbs continue to resonate more than a century after he first played Test cricket.


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By: Iris Murdoch

ISBN: 9780701188474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. Edward and Marian, the couple at the centre of the story, are led by events to learn the truth about themselves; It is Jackson who must intervene in the story to set the two young lovers onto the right path.


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By: Kevin Mitchell

ISBN: 9780224075091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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They mingled with underworld heavies along a strip of New York pavement near the Garden known only as Jacobs Beach.

Kevin Mitchell's gripping book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's peculiar glamour, brilliantly told through the eyes of the men who were there.


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By: Kingsley Amis

ISBN: 9780099512172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads off to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. As liberationists abuse him, a campus hostess bores him into bed - and even his own wife starts acting oddly - Jake seriously begins to wonder.


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By: David Malouf

ISBN: 9780099569893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time.


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By: Ferdinand Mount

ISBN: 9780099273141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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How does Jeremiah Mount, a dealer in pornography and a ruined farmer's son come to be the love of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Pepys In Pepys' Diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memoirs Sam Pepys looms large.


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By: Michael Moorcock

ISBN: 9780099485124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.


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By: T J Stiles

ISBN: 9780099521174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Jesse James began at 16 to fight alongside some of the savage Confederate guerrillas. In the bloodshed that followed Civil War, we see James and his fellow guerrillas, with their gunfights and holdups, become part of the brutal struggle by the White South against racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction.


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By: Irne Nmirovsky

ISBN: 9780099520382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Franaise.

In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place.


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By: Joseph Mitchell

ISBN: 9781784875619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer Nicci French, Independent

It was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village.


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By: Jonathan Noakes

ISBN: 9780099460886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles.


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By: John Heilpern

ISBN: 9780099275862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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John Osborne (1929-1994), unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, changed the face of modern British theatre forever with Look Back in Anger.


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By: John Batchelor

ISBN: 9781845952150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ruskin, whose life spanned almost a century from 1819 to 1900, was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual figures of his age.


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By: Gwendoline Riley

ISBN: 9780099490692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Joshua and Natalie share a vexed history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, all spliced with the occasional sad intimation of true love. Natalie attempts to start a new life without him in Manchester, but when Joshua calls unexpectedly and asks her to meet him in America she knows she has no choice but to go.

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