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By: Margaret Kennedy
ISBN: 9780099595465
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Publication Date: Oct 2014
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She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner
Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.
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By: Jack Rakove
ISBN: 9780099551867
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Publication Date: Jul 2011
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Offers a revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, this title uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.
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By: Ladislaus Lb
ISBN: 9781845950088
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Publication Date: Mar 2009
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He was not alone, but part of a group of some 1,670 Jewish men, women and children from Hungary, who had been rescued from the Nazis as a result of a deal made by a man called Rezso Kasztner - himself a Hungarian Jew - with Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust.
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By: Patrick White
ISBN: 9780099323914
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Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th September 1996
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF
Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.
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By: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9781845951092
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Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.
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By: John Culshaw
ISBN: 9781845951948
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Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2012
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It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it was made and the people who made it, written by the man who as the recording producer was in charge of the whole project.
Conducted by the great Georg Solti, Deccas recording has been voted the best recording ever made.
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By: Robert McLiam Wilson
ISBN: 9780749394653
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Publication Date: Aug 1997
UK Publication Date: 16th June 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE BOOK- In Ripley Bogle a tramp tells a gripping and alarming story. As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction.
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By: David Adams Richards
ISBN: 9780099466598
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Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, and her legacy as it unfolds tragically in the lives of her son and grandchildren.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781787301009
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Publication Date: Aug 2018
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The first part of Orwell's account, Gollancz wrote in Left News in April 1937, has done, perhaps in a greater degree than any previous book, what the [Left Book] Club is meant to do it has provoked thought and discussion of the keenest kind.
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By: Marina Benjamin
ISBN: 9780099546535
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Publication Date: Jan 2010
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From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. Rocket Dreams is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and mutated into new fascination with space.
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By: F X Toole
ISBN: 9781784703851
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Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2016
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'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever.
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By: Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9780099449225
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Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Through their eyes we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland of today.
Both are marvellous talkers, so combined with Roddy Doyle's legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, Rory & Ita makes for a book of tremendous warmth and humanity.
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By: Selina Hastings
ISBN: 9780099730118
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Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2003
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Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking affairs and lost loves.
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By: Claudia Roth Pierpont
ISBN: 9780099587668
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Publication Date: Mar 2015
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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.
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By: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9780749386825
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Publication Date: Apr 1997
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THE BOOK: One of Thomas Mann's most delightful stories, Royal Highness is richly resonant with may of his themes and symbols. His careful depiction of a decaying, stratified society rejuvenated by modern forces illustrates in fable what he regarded as a universal truth - that ripeness and death are a necessary condition of rebirth.
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By: Anna Lawrence Pietroni
ISBN: 9780099540052
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Publication Date: Apr 2011
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This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.
The Black Country town of Cradle Cross - home to buttonmakers, canal folk, and more than its share of widows - is bounded by canals, grief and superstition.
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By: Nevil Shute
ISBN: 9780099530169
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Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
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Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity.
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By: Francesca Marciano
ISBN: 9780099274698
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Publication Date: Jun 1999
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Set in contemporary Nairobi, this is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves.
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By: Andr Brink
ISBN: 9780749399856
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Publication Date: Aug 1994
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Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.
Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm.
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By: Mark Whitaker
ISBN: 9780224082594
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Publication Date: Apr 2013
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In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event - a transcontinental road race across America that required them to run an average of 40 miles for 80 consecutive days.
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By: Niall Griffiths
ISBN: 9780099461159
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Publication Date: Jun 2008
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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm.
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By: Ruth Maier
ISBN: 9780099524243
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Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
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When Norway became a Nazi conquest in April 1940, Ruth's effort to join the rest of her family in Britain became ever more urgent.
Ruth Maier kept a diary from 1934 until she was deported to Auschwitz in 1942 at the age of twenty-two.
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By: M R D Foot
ISBN: 9781847922939
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Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2014
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SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze. Their job as saboteurs, informers, partisans, couriers or secret agents was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines;
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By: Michael Fishwick
ISBN: 9781784703769
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Publication Date: Apr 2016
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Christopher Hughes was a remarkable teacher. In the subsequent chapters we see Christopher again through the eyes of those whose lives he touched until at last the kaleidoscope is shaken into focus and we discover the truth about Christopher Hughes, his life and his death.
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