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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell)
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Costa Novel Award Inspiration for the major TV drama starring Mark Rylance and Claire Foy `Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ Daily Mail `Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian
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The Owl Killers
Another sensational slice of Dark Ages Gothic from the author of the triumphant seller Company of LiarsEngland, 1321Welcome to the Dark AgesIn the heart of the countryside lies an isolated village, where pagan Owl Masters rule through fear, superstition and murder.When a group of religious women ill-advisedly settles outside the village, they awaken dangerous jealousies.…
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Company of Liars
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that…
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The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Norman Mailer’s The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America’s greatest writers.Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last…
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Harlot’s Ghost
Hugh Tremont Montague – code name HARLOT – is one of the grand old men of the CIA, a man obsessed and nearly – but not quite – the WASP patrician he seems to be. The narrator of Harlot’s story is Harry Hubbard, whose famous father also belongs to the foudning generation of the CIA.…
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