The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: General Fiction
As "The Dream of the Celt" opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past yea ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTHTilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
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Category: General Fiction
The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance.Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the ...Show more
The Duke in His Domain (Mini Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.'This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from fil ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
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Category: General Fiction
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and Autumn A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and ...Show more
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
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Category: General Fiction
A DEADLY VIRUS. QUARANTINE. A WORLD IN LOCKDOWN. THE THRILLER THAT PREDICTED IT ALL.THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Flies thrillingly, eerily close to reality' Guardian'This page-turner... is riveting and spookily anticipates much that has unfolded in reality' Sunday TimesA race-against-time thril ...Show more
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
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Category: General Fiction
** Selected by 8 National Newspapers as a Book of the Year ** ** The New York TimesBestseller **'The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary' Jeffrey Eugenides'Greer didn?t really know why Faith took an interest. But what she knew for sure, eventually, was that meeting ...Show more
The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Paladin Books
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four chi ...Show more
The Finger (Mini Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamou ...Show more
The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt by C.W. Gortner
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Category: General Fiction
"This novel about Sarah Bernhardt, the iconic French actress, is both a riveting portrait of the artist as a passionate young woman and a luscious historical novel full of period detail."-Melanie Benjamin,New York Timesbestselling author ofMistress of the RitzandThe Aviator's Wife From her beginnings as ...Show more