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Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives.

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From the critically acclaimed author, a stylish and compelling novel about a woman making a new life for herself.

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Includes discussion questions and author interview.

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In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India, rarely addressed in contemporary fiction.

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Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.

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Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk.

Patience is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him a mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him, even as she struggles to mend him.

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* How do you look to the future when all around you are living in the past This stunningly written coming-of-age story explores life in a 1960s German Jewish family with all its contradictions, frustrations and occasionally, mesmerising glimpses of light

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A study of sexual appetite and of the more nebulous longings that accompany it; this is also a comedy of manners.

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A compelling, heart-wrenching debut novel from a young Nigerian writer.

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Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiterate son of a healer.

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In "The Spider's Web", his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess

'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph

'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer

Bucharest, 1940.

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In this brilliant novel, Dunbar presents a grim, ironic look at the urban black experience. The story of a displaced Southern family's struggle to survive and prosper in Harlem, "The Sport of the Gods" was one of the first novels to depict the harsh realities of ghetto life. Revised reissue.

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Means' stories chart the physics and geography of crime and betrayal with a Dostoevskian fervour, seeking out the intricate relationship between immorality and grace.

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Perfect for fans of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer - tightly plotted, emotionally gripping and a brilliant sense of place and period.

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Follows Scooter into young manhood at a Southern college during the 1930s as he discovers new friends, new ideas, and new ways to cope with the complexities of life.

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From living legend Joan Collins comes a fabulously witty romp in the ultimate playground of the rich and the famous, St. Tropez - full of sun, sin, sex and scandal with Joan's trademark humour.

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A brilliant romantic comedy from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle, author of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A BACHELOR, perfect for anyone who is even thinking of getting married

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The Stall of Second Chances is a story about love, choices, and second chances in the Internet era, at a time when our past is written in ink, not pencil, and when the decisions we make today can ripple far into the future.

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Darkly comic and hauntingly surreal, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures examines obsession, paranoia and the dwindling career of a Stasi operative.

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Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with.

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Condemned to death row, Professor Darrell Standing looks back on his life and reflects on its meaning, in this novel of prison corruption and the catharsis that comes from escaping it, even if only in one's head. This Modern Library version of Jack London's final novel also contains a reading group guide.