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Interpretations of Love
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Agnes Stacey’s daughter is getting married and, as happy as she is, the coming wedding celebrations fill her with anxiety. She will ...Read Review
The Chosen
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November 1912. On a cold, wet autumnal morning, Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma dies suddenly of heart failure. With both born in 1840, and hence ...Read Review
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
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This wonderful book takes the reader on a riveting journey unravelling how, where, and why the earliest written books in Old English, Middle ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
Dark Water
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Boston, 1883. Hiram Carver, a callow, pampered youth, takes up his first position as assistant surgeon on board USS Orbis. Aged 21, and never having ...Read Review
The Secret of Vesalius
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Barcelona in 1888, in the run up to the World Fair which is to be held in that same city. Daniel Amat, just appointed ...Read Review
The Tsar of Love and Techno
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This is a series of interconnected stories that dwell upon the state of the Soviet Union and Russia. They begin in 1937 with Roman ...Read Review
Larchfield
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It is 1930, and the young poet W. H. Auden takes a train to Helensburgh, a genteel resort in west Scotland, to become a ...Read Review
This is 64
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Joseph Connolly has written a typically anarchic and entertaining novel of one George Reilly, who is aged just 19 in 1964 and living in a ...Read Review
Minds of Winter
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The enticing jacket synopsis: 1845, John Franklin’s expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage results in the disappearance of all hands and both ships. ...Read Review
