The Bradshaw Variations
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'Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his (...)
The Last Train to Scarborough
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'A riveting new adventure for Jim Stringer, Andrew Martin's celebrated Steam Detective .It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment. It s not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last (...)
Never Let Me Go
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A clear frontrunner to be the year s most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.' Sunday TimesIn one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a (...)
The Dark
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'The Dark, John McGahern s second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between (...)
Humphrey's Great-Great-Great Book of Stories
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'The perfect gift, this new edition of Betty G. Birney's bestselling series brings together three more stories about Humphrey the classroom hamster. Discover the wisdom, wit and brilliance of the nation's best-loved furry friend as he tells you everything about Surprises, Adventure and Holidays, (...)
That They May Face the Rising Sun
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'A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man (...)
Winterland
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'Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love (...)
Cabal
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When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously (...)
El Secretario Coyote
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El secretario Coyote, eterno soltero, aventurero y de sorprendente moralidad, ocupa un alto cargo en el joven Estado de las Cuatro Grandes Islas. Un paraíso fiscal, con un singular y atractivo paisaje y un hedonista modo de vida que pone el marco a las intrigas de Estado y los crímenes en las altas (...)
Soledad amores
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Huir parece ser propio de los cobardes, sin embargo, este hecho exige la dolorosa determinación de abandonar el camino recorrido, ya habiendo sido éste tortuoso o en apariencia benévolo, y abrigar el sacrificio que acostumbra agigantarse con la presencia de la duda. En Soledad Amoreslos personajes (...)