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Great Tales from English History Omnibus
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Silent Scream
Hot young British film star Amanda Delany had the world at her feet. She’d had a string of affairs with famous actors, making perfect fodder for the tabloids. Then came a commission to write a tell-all memoir. When Amanda is found brutally murdered, DCI James Langton’s enquiry discovers the sad truth behind her successful facade.…
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Deadly Intent
The first in the much-loved Anna Travis series reissued in B-format in Lynda’s stunning new look. Now a major ITV drama.
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The Emperor Of Ocean Park
Judge Oliver Garland has just died in suspicious circumstances. Conservative and controversial, Garland had many enemies. Many years ago, he’d earned a judge’s highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation in front of a televised audience and before the eyes of his family, he had to withdraw his nomination.…
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Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)
As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; and, the self-absorbed civil servant…
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The Buddha of Suburbia
The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, “an Englishman born and bred – almost”, who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of “My Beautiful Launderette” and “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid”.
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The English Passengers
‘A big, ambitious novel with a rich historical sweep and a host of narrative voices. Its subject is a vicar’s ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania, [as] meanwhile, in Tasmania itself, the British settlers are alternately trying to civilise and eliminate the Aboriginal population … The sort of novel that…
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Find out what books and films influenced the young writer, his first idea for a story and the true life tale that inspired Carrie. For the first time, here’s an intimate autobiographical portrait of his home life, his family and his traumatic recent accident. Citing examples of his work and those of his contemporaries, King…
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Hearts In Atlantis
Hearts of Atlantis is King’s newest fiction is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. each story is deeply rooted in the 60’s and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
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Ruim geïllustreerd overzicht van de geschiedenis van de middeleeuwen.
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