 | Crampton Hodnet (Plume)
Release Date: June 1, 1986| Series: Plume This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
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Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they can’t stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fi ghts, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. ...
|  | Ake: Years of Childhood
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|  | Paradise Postponed
Publication Date: April 7, 1986A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. ...
|  | The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Prion Lost Treasures The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters—depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs—Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevoca...
|  | Eclipse
Release Date: February 20, 2001In his first novel since The Untouchable, John Banville gives us the intensely emotional story of a man discovering for the first time who he has been and what he is becoming.Alexander Cleave—a famous actor who “took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be . . . of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be”—faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter...
|  | Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery (Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels)
Release Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels.In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe's cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sa...
|  | Heartstones (Harper Short Novel Series)
Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Harper Short Novel Series Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better -- after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre
Publication Date: October 2001Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle’s life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town’s school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her. ...
|  | Half Life
Release Date: April 27, 2010On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk it all. But why? Waiting for her is a messy past and a perfect past lover she had once abandone...
|  | White Man of God (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: December 1980| ISBN-10: 0435902318 | ISBN-13: 978-0435902315This novel of wisdom and charm tells the story of Tansa, a boy growing up in a Cameroonian village which has been split down the middle by the arrival of a missionary - the "white man of God". ...
|  | Scorpius (Ian Fleming's James Bond)
Release Date: May 23, 1988| Series: Ian Fleming's James Bond The dead body of a young girl found floating in the Thames leads Bond into the haunts of a secret sect which is connected with Scorpius, the biggest arms dealer to terrorists worldwide; Bond soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of terrorism and arms supplies. John Gardner is author of six previous James Bond titles, including "Ice Breaker", "Licence Renewed" and "Nobody Lives For Ever", as well as other thrillers such as "The Nostrodamus Traitor", "The Garden of Weapons" and "The Quiet Dogs". --This text refers to an a...
|  | The Icarus Girl: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2005“The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can’t shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and the other kids in her class are wary of her tendency to succumb to terrified fits of screamin...
|  | Hunter's Moon: A Story of Foxes
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|  | TRIPLE FEATURE: A Novel
Publication Date: April 8, 1997Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of. 30,000 first printing. ...
|  | Fabulous Nobodies
Release Date: August 1, 2006 Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous Nobodies Now, back in print after fifteen years, it’s your chance to experience this hysterically wild cult-status novel for the first time. Get ready to meet: Reality Nirvana Tuttle A self-described "doorwhore" at one of Manhattan’s hottest clubs. She never gets up before 2 P.M. and has vivid, two-way conversations with every dress in her closet. Hugo "A Go-Go" Falk Gossip columnist and documenter of all things fabulous in the fashion scene. This man is the ke...
|  | Circles of Deceit (Virago Modern Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Virago Modern Classics Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specializes as a copyist. Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters, so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present, until fact and fiction, like art and life, meet in a remarkable conclus...
|  | Sister Murdock's House of Correction
Publication Date: June 23, 2000Trapped inside Athelstan Hall with seven other young women who have displeased their husbands, Sarah Easton discovers the hard way that a lady's education is not complete until she learns to accept subjugation willingly.She is swept along from one degrading encounter to the next, becoming gradually aware that things are not quite what they seem... ...
|  | My Fault
Publication Date: September 1, 2005A nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse stumbles onward into adolescense, laying bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men. At turns hilarious and harrowing. ...
|  | Savages: Savages
Publication Date: May 1, 1990A novel, whose English language rights were sold for 2,500,000, which deals with 5 women, transformed from wives of the powerful rich executives to widows in the jungle, coming face to face with the savage inside themselves. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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