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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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Man of a Thousand Chances
Tulsi Badrinath
Hachette India
ISBN : 9789350092804
Harihar Arora: second-generation north Indian in Madras, museum curator, indifferent husband, indulgent father – and thief. Desperate to meet his beloved daughter’s wedding expenses, the otherwise honestHarihar steals a rare gold coin minted by ......
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Third Best
K. V. Arjun Rao
Hachette India
ISBN : 9789350090565
Welcome to Shore Mount — one of India's most prestigious co-ed residential schools. Here, short skirts reign and sports stars are revered, and skinny dips and sneaking girls into boys' rooms are as much a part of the curriculum as the cool Mr ...
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Through the Forest Darkly
Ranjan Kaul
Hachette India
ISBN : 9789350090800
Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinash’s uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his ...
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Come, Before Evening Falls
Manjul Bajaj
Hachette India
ISBN : 9789350090435
In a society governed by strict marriage rules and the diktats of the Khap, Jugni knows love is not an option; her beloved uncle, whose unspoken favourite she has always been, will die if he ever learns of this betrayal of family honour; her ...
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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 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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Alys, Always
Harriet Lane
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 9780297865018
Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the ...
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A Life's Music
Andrei Makine
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340820094
In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. Once on the train to Moscow he begins to tell his story: a tale of loss, love ...
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