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The Daughters of Mars
Thomas Keneally
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340951873
In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they ...
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Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340822807
It’s a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor – covert stammerer and reluctant poet – anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn’t reckoned with a junta ...
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Mafia Brotherhoods
John Dickie
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340963920
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA. Mafia. Camorra. 'Ndrangheta. The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous ...
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Casanova
Andrew Miller
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340682104
Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of thirty-eight, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie ...
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The Boy Next Door
Irene Sabatini
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340918838
Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight. Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, though eighteen months later the charges against Ian McKenzie are dropped and he returns home, full of charm and swagger. Intrigued, ...
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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
Siri Hustvedt
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340998762
A revealing and unusal memoir by the bestselling author of What I Loved, an account of her search for the source of her mysterious nervous disorder which offers a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body – 'provocative ...
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The Devil's Paintbrush
Jake Arnott
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340922712
Paris, 1903. Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, is facing ruin in a shocking homosexual scandal when he meets the notorious occultist, Aleister Crowley. As they set out into the night on a wild ...
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