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 | FarundellIn the golden summer of 1924 Paul Asher, still shattered by the trauma of the Western Front, comes to Farundell, an idyllic country house set deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. There, he falls under the spell of the rich and eccentric Damory family: the celebrated Amazon explorer Perceval, Lord Damory, now blind and dying, brilliant thirteen-year-old Alice and, most fatefully,....
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 | Story in Literary Fiction: A Manual for Writers(Paperback)The literary story is an art form created in the imagination. Using principles and guidelines, this clearly-written, succinct manual helps authors create structure, and action and drama in their wiritng. And the manual is not just for authors. Readers with no aspirations to write can learn to appreciate the talents of great storytellers.
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 | Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year 2010 Mr. Rosenblum's ListList item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An Englishman buys his marmalade from Fortnum and Mason. It's 1952, and despite his best efforts, his bid to....
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 | The Cry Of The Go-Away BirdElise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean and ironed, there is always....
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 | My Literary Passions, Criticism and Fiction(Hardback)This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important....
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 | The New Fiction, and Other Essays on Literary Subjects(Paperback / softback)This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe....
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 | More Than You Can Say'Tell you what, Leader, do you want to double your money?' 'Double or quits?' 'Of course double or quits. I'm having lunch at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford tomorrow with my uncle. If you can join us by one o'clock sharp tomorrow, I'll tear up this cheque and write you another for six thousand pounds.' It is a bet Richard....
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 | Caribou IslandOn a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible....
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 | The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Gift Edition A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart. It's 1946, and as Juliet Ashton sits at her desk in her Chelsea flat, she is stumped. A writer of witty newspaper columns during the war, she can't think of what to....
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 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De ZoetBe transported to a place like no other... a tiny, man made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.
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 | An amazing collection of short stories Give Me Your HeartThe need for love - obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable - takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates.
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 | Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 The Long SongShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize, THE LONG SONG is breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable. You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held....
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 | Sun DogAugust Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever...
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 | Norwegian WoodWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches....
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 | The Book ClubWhen Theresa Pellikaan's her former schoolmate Ruth Ackermann, brought up in the same village, makes waves with an international bestseller, but none of the villagers ever mention her achievement, she begins to wonder why...
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 | Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1(Paperback)Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1905
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 | Chatto a Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1(Hardback)Chatto a Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1905
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 | Chatto a Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1(Hardback)Chatto a Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literary Collections, Sept. 1905
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 | A Thousand Splendid SunsMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in....
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 | The MessengerJan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo. 'This is an unforgettable book. Written in memory of....
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