Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
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It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that w ...Show more
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
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On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British ...Show more
People Park by Pasha Malla
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It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its resi ...Show more
Three Dog Night by Peter Goldsworthy
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Is it possible to be too much in love?After ten years in London, Martin Blackman returns to Adelaide with his wife and fellow psychiatrist Lucy, blissfully happy. But then he introduces her to his old friend Felix, once a brilliant surgeon, now barred from practising and changed beyond recognition. In t ...Show more
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin
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On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally ...Show more
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andreï Makine
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In the summer of 1947, a small town outside Paris is rocked by scandal when a member of its Russian emigr community drowns in a boating incident and the woman with him, an enigmatic White Russian princess, is charged with his murder. But Olga Arb lina is acquitted. Then the story unfolds of the precedin ...Show more
A Tapping at My Door by DAVID JACKSON
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This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
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Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Bks.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An outstanding book ... lively, curious and passionate' Literary Review Why should you read a book about Shakespeare and his plays?Because he is a timeless genius whose work encapsulates the human condition?Or is it something more unexpected?
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
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In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, with a backward step. Intertwining two love stories across three generations, the Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip takes us to Buenos Aires, New Zealand and Sydney. ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
As a child Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in a volume of fiction edited by his Swiss grandparents. He initially reads only part of the tale, which has been torn from the bound proofs, the blank back pages of which he uses for his homework. He becomes obsessed with this tale of ...Show more