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By: Hugh Miller

ISBN: 9780006499336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war. When the mission looks impossible, who do you call UNACO.


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By: Iris Murdoch

ISBN: 9780099285373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic creations;


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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: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099286844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church.

The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.


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By: Henry Green

ISBN: 9781860468315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When war breaks out, Roe volunteers for the Auxillary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link exists between them. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, the relationship between the two men develops.


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By: Colette

ISBN: 9780099422785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Set in pre-war Paris, Julie de Carneilhan tells of the complex relationship between proud but impoverished Julie and her former husband, the Comte d'Espivant, who has remarried a wealth widow.


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By: Alexandra Brown

ISBN: 9780007488254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A deliciously indulgent read and the follow up to Cupcakes at Carrington's. Set in Carrington's Department Store this is perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan.


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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: Ruby Jackson

ISBN: 9780007506231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The first in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.


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By: Charlie Brooks

ISBN: 9780007286409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From former top trainer Charlie Brooks comes a thriller of horseracing, dirty dealing, big business and a test of loyalty under extreme pressure


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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.


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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.


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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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By: William W. Brown

ISBN: 9780679783237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The first novel ever published by an African American, this incendiary, passionate tale is about Thomas Jefferson's secret mulatto daughter and her sale into slavery. "Clotel" is a jarring look at the history of race in America and an important historical document in its own right.


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By: William Wells Brown

ISBN: 9780142437728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Emma Page

ISBN: 9780008175863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Kesley and Lambert novel.



The sun has risen but successful young stockbroker Gavin Elliot is still in bed.

He lies on his side, his pyjama top hitched up to reveal his back- and a knife sticking out from between his shoulder-blades


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By: Bertolt Brecht

ISBN: 9781472578204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jack Higgins

ISBN: 9780007274239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Martin Shane was tortured, starved and broken. But a memory has surfaced A memory of the man who did this to him. And he must pay.


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By: Graham Greene

ISBN: 9780143039105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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