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By: The Detection Club

ISBN: 9780008283179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, Detective Writers in England, in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club.


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By: Mordecai Richler

ISBN: 9780099554462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 13th January 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Even Barney Panofsky's friends tend to agree that he is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a penchant for violence and probably a murderer'.


(Paperback)

By: Stella Gibbons

ISBN: 9780099529378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker - divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other. Through their tale and the interwoven tribulations of two young lovers, Gibbons's sparkling novel explores the heart of friendship and what unites us.


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By: Patrick OBrian

ISBN: 9780008112967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick OBrian made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.


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By: J. Jefferson Farjeon

ISBN: 9780008156039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out.


(Paperback)

By: J. Jefferson Farjeon

ISBN: 9780008155940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure.


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By: Howell D. Chickering

ISBN: 9781400096220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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This presentation of the translation and the Old English text on facing pagesallows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in afresh and exciting new way. High school & older.


(Paperback)

By: Nevil Shute

ISBN: 9780099529996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.


(Paperback)

By: Maria Sveland

ISBN: 9781849019682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The international bestseller that shocked Europe.


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By: Joseph Zobel

ISBN: 9780143133957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy in colonial Martinique. This edition features a new foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau"--


(Paperback)

By: Sadeq Hedayat

ISBN: 9780143136583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Kevin J. Anderson

ISBN: 9780008181703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Stunning psychic science thriller by the bestselling author of X-Files: Ground Zero and X-Files: Ruins.


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By: Nick Bleszynski

ISBN: 9781741667004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Random House Australia
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Powerful and relentless, the hunger pursues you like a wild beast without respite. You can resist it for hours, even days, but it eventually overwhelms your reason with its desire to be satisfied. Eat or be eaten, that was the terrible choice facing the eight convict bolters from Macquarie Harbour, Australia's most remote and brutal penal colony.


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By: Melanie Wallace

ISBN: 9780099520474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'I will not live amongst you' are the only words Abigail Buwell will speak when she arrives at Fort 2881.


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By: Barbara Baynton

ISBN: 9780207196423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Written during the 1890s, this collection of short stories presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian Bush. These are not the stories of mates gathered around the fire, but of the dark loneliness of women.


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By: Anthony Burgess

ISBN: 9780099541424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.


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By: Voltaire

ISBN: 9780812972016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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According to many scholars, Voltaire (pen name for Francois Marie Arouet) was the embodiment of the Enlightenment. Born in Paris is 1694, he was well educated by the Jesuits, studying law prior to turning to writing as a profession. His lampoons and satires won him fame and infamy; and he was imprisoned and exiled at various times for his writing.


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By: Jean Toomer

ISBN: 9780143133674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9780143106357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Previously published: New York, N.Y.: Avon, c1988.


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By: Cathy Sharp

ISBN: 9780008118501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A gritty and compelling drama from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Sheila Jeffries.


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By: Will Adams

ISBN: 9780007424269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkeys war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.


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By: Colette

ISBN: 9780099422488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.

Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring.


(Paperback)

By: Colette

ISBN: 9780099422495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.

Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention.


(Paperback)

By: Kim Ronyoung

ISBN: 9780143138242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Kim Ronyoung tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children"--

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