Fiction
Midnight Pirates
By Ally Kennen
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Published 07-Jan-2013
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Three children, whose parents have gone to America, try to run a secluded West Country beach hotel on their own. The chaos mounts as they pretend there are adults in charge. A sinister guest brings danger. A ship is grounded off the beach, and crates of washed-up cargo are there for the taking. But the wreck was no accident...
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Hundred Brothers
By Donald Antrim
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Published 14-Feb-2013
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A surreal exploration of the combined love and loathing felt between a family of a hundred brothers as they try to settle their differences.
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Family Secrets
By Deborah Cohen
Hardback
Published 09-Jan-2013
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A book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. Both a story of family secrets and of how they were revealed, it journeys from the frontier of empire, where British adventurers made secrets that haunted their descendants for generations, to the confessional vanguard of modern-day genealogy two centuries later.
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Can We Still Be Friends
By Alexandra Shulman
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Published 17-Jan-2013
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Summer, 1983. Best friends, Sal, Annie and Kendra are fresh-faced and fresh out of university. Three very different girls about to walk three very different but equally tangled paths... Sal's the aspiring journalist whose personal demons threaten to destroy everything she achieves.
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By Marjorie Celona
Hardback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family? And why would her parents abandon Shannon on the day she was born?
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Light Shining in the Forest
By Paul Torday
Hardback
Published 31-Jan-2013
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From the author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, a dark tale about a failing politician and the search for two missing children.
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Emperor's Tomb
By Joseph Roth
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Published 03-Jan-2013
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A new translation by Michael Hofmann of one of Roth's most acclaimed novels; an elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Nice Weather
By Frederick Seidel
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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Presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel - and thrilled and offended his readers.
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In Search of Lost Time
By Marcel Proust
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Published 02-Oct-2003
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A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.
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Gone to the Forest
By Katie Kitamura
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Published 14-Feb-2013
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Since his mother's death ten years earlier, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their family farm. Everything is frozen under the old man's vicious, relentless control - even, Tom soon discovers, his own future.
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