The Resurrectionist
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London, 1826. Leaving behind his father s tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city s anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master s nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful (...)
Oracle Night
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The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' (San Francisco Chronicle).Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys (...)
Selected Poems of Simon Armitage
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This land and its killing epochs. Nadeem Aslam s dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that (...)
The Story of a Marriage
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This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work as well as offering a retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to (...)
The Last King of Scotland
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What would it be like to become Idi Amin s personal physician?Giles Foden s bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator s surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin s thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda (...)
Medusa
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When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his (...)
Churchill's Wizards
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The story of how the British really won two world wars by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn.By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. To protect itself, the nation fell back on cunning and camouflage. With Winston Churchill in (...)
New and revised Edition
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The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city.'Entertaining, ironical, witty, high spirited and appreciative . . . Both melancholy and gay and worldly, I think of it now as among the best books on Venice; indeed as the best modern book about a (...)
Ghosts of Spain
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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death (...)
Spain
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Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain s pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a history that set its seal upon half the world . . (...)