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By the author of Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon.

Aldous Jones is in a bad way: his dilapidated house is empty of family but full of hoarded odds and ends that remind him of his dead wife and son.

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PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. The mother of missing young woman Anna Gerrish calls on his services, and Craine soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of corruption and lies that leads back into the murky waters of the past - and to the night that Craine has spent over a decade trying to forget.

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Heartache and hardship in Londons East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street

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Heartache and hardship in Londons East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street

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A collection of short stories by some of our finest contemporary writers.

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Told through the eyes of nine characters who live through the forty years between the end of the war and the fall of Communism, A Desert in Bohemia is a complex and enthralling testament to the power and powerlessness of the individual in challenging times.

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Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter.

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Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this in between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions.

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When Todd, a developmentally challenged young man still living on his parents' Kansas farm, hears that a local animal shelter is seeking temporary homes for its dogs during the holiday week, he knows exactly what he wants for Christmas.

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What are the chances that twelve little tokens could change a life

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Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man who inherited his father's philanthropic attitude along with his beautiful house, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife.

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In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. But a secret hangs over Langani, overshadowing the friends' efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation...

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'Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise.'

Inimitable sleuth Falco is back with a vengeance.

Soon he is plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production.

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This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner canon.

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Alec Waugh's Island in the Sun - a novel about the West Indies in the 1950's - was one of the outstanding successes of the decade. It was a major film production. Here is a companion volume, a history of the area, with islands instead of human characters as the protagonists.

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OMG as always Kitty Neales book has not disappointed, story was amazing. Could hardly put the book down to " parent " my children lol awesome read. Reader review

All they ever wanted was somewhere to call home

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'Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'

A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. And so we follow his boozy trail through two failed marriages, many bars and intermittent visits to Avalon Valley - a private home for the mentally ill.