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By: Mary Renault

ISBN: 9781844089505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room as a landmark work in gay literature.


(Paperback)

By: Stendhal

ISBN: 9780140449662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory. This work blends the intrigues of the Italian court with the excitement of youth.


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By: Yuta Takahashi

ISBN: 9781399817615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The soul-nourishing Japanese hit novel about the healing power of food.


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By: Jennifer Ryan

ISBN: 9780008163730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The writing glows with emotional intelligence. This atmospheric debuthad me sniffing copiously Daily Mail


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By: Pascale Kramer

ISBN: 9781934137550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings.


(Paperback)

By: Ian McEwan

ISBN: 9780099755012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th June 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch

Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty Benedict Cumberbatch

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of childrens books, turns his back momentarily.


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By: Gill Thompson

ISBN: 9781472258014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Inspired by the extraordinary true events of the Kindertransport, which rescued Jewish children from Nazi Germany, a heartrending novel about two mothers and the little girl whose life they save.


(Paperback)

By: J. M. Coetzee

ISBN: 9781922182265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Text Publishing
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By: Ian McEwan

ISBN: 9780099599630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case.


(Paperback, Media tie-in)

By: Ian McEwan

ISBN: 9781784705572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. Time is running out.

She visits the boy in hospital an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy.


(Paperback, Main)

By: P. D. James

ISBN: 9780571342211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery.


(Hardback)

By: Helen Garner

ISBN: 9781925773040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authorsnow in an elegant hardback edition.


(Paperback)

By: Alice Nelson

ISBN: 9780143791188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Charlotte Wood

ISBN: 9781741756043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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From one of Australia's finest writers, a novel that exposes the tenacious grip of childhood, the way siblings seem to grow apart but never do, and the price paid for bearing witness to the suffering of others.


(Paperback)

By: Helen Garner

ISBN: 9781922268365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.


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By: Anna Smaill

ISBN: 9781444794502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th January 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthral and inspire.


(Paperback)

By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780241746776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Mary Costello

ISBN: 9781922147417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Text Publishing
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An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever; a young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife; a wife who miscalculated the guarantees of marriage embarks upon an online affair.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Ian Buruma

ISBN: 9781843548027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor's office watching Japanese films; at night he immerses himself in the sensual pleasures of Tokyo.


(Paperback)

By: Nicholas Sparks

ISBN: 9780751562255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Now a major motion picture, The Choice is an unforgettable - and heart-wrenching - love story from Nicholas Sparks, the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook.


By: Nicholas Sparks

ISBN: 9780751540574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Now a major motion picture, The Choice is an unforgettable - and heart-wrenching - love story from Nicholas Sparks, the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook.


(Paperback)

By: Sofie Laguna

ISBN: 9781760529949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The Choke is a mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner.


(Paperback)

By: Chaim Potok

ISBN: 9780141040776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the 20th century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.


(Paperback)

By: Jostein Gaarder

ISBN: 9780753808665
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th October 1999
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An original presentation of the Nativity story.

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