Inheritance Author: Nicholas Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781846553165

What would you do if you suddenly inherited GBP17,000,000? An entertaining and poignant story of betrayal and redemption from one of our most-respected writers.
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Tony and Susan Author: Austin M. Wright
ISBN: 9781848870215

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel.

Truth Author: Peter Temple
ISBN: 9781921520716

Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. Villani's life is his work. But now, over a few summer days, as fires burn across the state and his colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certaint ...
Category:Fiction - Crime & Mystery General

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet Author: David Mitchell
ISBN: 9780340921579

Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of Eu ...
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Homer and Langley Author: E.L. Doctorow
ISBN: 9781408702260

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times, their home a fin-de-siecle mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the War in Europe with his lungs seared by gas, and ...
Category:Fiction - General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Imperial Bedrooms Author: Bret Easton Ellis
ISBN: 9780330517096

"Less Than Zero" successfully chronicled the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, many years later, this book returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his.
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Solar Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780224090506

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard fin ...

And Thereby Hangs A Tale Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9780230531451

Offers a collection of Jeffrey Archer's stories who takes inspiration from his favorite short story writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H H Munro, W Somerset Maugham and O Henry.
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Houdinis Flight Author: Angelo Loukakis
ISBN: 9780732280659

Terry Voulos is struggling. His marriage, his relationship with his son and his work are all shaky. He finds solace in the possibility of a new career as a magician, before a tragic accident sends him into exile, estranged from all that is familiar.
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Beatrice and Virgil Author: Yann Martel
ISBN: 9781921656255

Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he ...
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