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Deadman's Pedal

By A Warner

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Published 02-May-2013


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For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price?


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Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

By Maria Semple

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Published 07-Jun-2012


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An irresistibly funny, brilliantly original coming-of-age novel


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Strange Bodies

By Marcel Theroux

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Published 02-May-2013


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Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive. Yet nothing can make him change his story.


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Man in the Wooden Hat

By Jane Gardam

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Published 20-Nov-2010


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* A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH


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Fault in Our Stars

By John Green

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Published 03-Jan-2013


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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.


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Nineteen Eighty-Four

By George Orwell

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Published 29-Oct-1992


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In "Nineteen eighty-four", one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society.


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Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

By Robert Tressell

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Published 11-Sep-2008


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Girl Who Fell from the Sky

By Simon Mawer

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Published 09-May-2013


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Mateship with Birds

By Carrie Tiffany

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Published 06-Jun-2013


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A celebration of the natural world and of family in all its forms


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Crow Road

By Iain Banks

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Published 07-Feb-2013


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