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One Day Chronicling a friendship spanning two decades, Nicholls perfects the will-they-won't-they trick, starting with his leads at university in the 1980s and poking gentle fun at the decades following. This novel is a genuine tear-jerker as well as laugh-out-loud funny.
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The Help Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver.... This is a deeply moving, timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by and the ones we won't. |
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Dark Matter A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. |
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When God Was a Rabbit Spanning four decades and moving between suburban Essex, the wild coast of Cornwall and the streets of New York, this is a story about childhood, eccentricity, the darker side of love and sex, the pull and power of family ties, loss and life. More than anything, it's a story about love in all its forms. |
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Snowdrops Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruption. Yet as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows... |
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Places Guided by monks, scientists and poets among others, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm beaches of Norfolk and the saltmarshes of Essex. |
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Secret
Life of Birds Tudge explores the life of birds all around the globe, from the secrets of their migration to different habitats, their family lives to the secrets of flight. Tudge attempts to show that birds, much like us, have minds of their own - they think, feel and work things out, so by studying them, we also gain an insight into ourselves.
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Points North Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - this title explores growing up and being Northern.
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Cello
Suites One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, he fell deeply in love with the music. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, this title unravels three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion.
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Eleven
Minutes Late In this new paperback edition, Engel - a cross between John Betjeman and Victor Meldrew - examines our love-hate relationship with railways. Travelling by rail from Penzance to Thurso, Engel explores the history of the railway, talking to everyone from politicians to platform staff in order to uncover all the mysteries of the ultimate expression of Britishness.
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Nella
Last’s Peace Picking up from where Nella Last's War left off, Housewife 49 continues her unique diary, covering the years 1945-48, offering a detailed, moving and humorous portrait of the changing experiences of ordinary people at this time, a period of continued privation, hope and the re-building of Britain. |
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