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Unexpected Lessons in Love
Bernardine Bishop
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848547827
With the wit of Marina Lewycka, the piercing observation of Jane Gardam, and the bittersweet charm of Mary Wesley, this will appeal to all who loved Major Pettigrew's Last Stand or The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Cecilia Banks ...
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The Middle-Class ABC
Fi Cotter-Craig
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Zebedee Helm
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848546806
The Middle-Class ABC is the book loos the length and breadth of the land have been waiting for - a humorous celebration of the facts and foibles, manners and mores of contemporary British middle class life. Letter by letter, the book's clever, ...
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The Naked Name of Love
Sanjida O'connell
John Murray
ISBN : 9780719521744
In 1865, as Darwin’s new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the Eastern ...
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The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
James Frey
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848543171
James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of his controversies. Berated by TV talk-show hosts ...
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Prince
Rory Clements
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848544253
Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches and waits - and plots.Into this turmoil a small cart ...
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Total War
Michael Jones
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848542297
Following on from The Retreat, Total War traces the fighting from the battle for Kursk in 1943 to the bloody battle for Berlin. Using powerful eye-witness accounts he tells a story of vicious brutality on both sides.
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Peter Hopkirk
John Murray
ISBN : 9780719564499
No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately ...
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Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
Gyles Brandreth
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848542501
In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre ...
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