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Hope Factory
By Lavanya Sankaran
Hardback
Published 23-Apr-2013
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An international event: a remarkable first novel of modern India, weaving together a rich tapestry of social manners and mores, ambition, greed, and love, which will establish Lavanya Sankaran as one of the most gifted and original writers of fiction today.
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This House is Haunted
By John Boyne
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor.
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Society of Timid Souls
By Polly Morland
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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In 1942, a pianist from Manhattan convened the inaugural meeting of an extraordinary new fraternity, which promised to inoculate stage fright sufferers against the terrors that afflicted them. The venture was an astonishing success. They called it The Society of Timid Souls.
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Woman Upstairs
By Claire Messud
Hardback
Published 30-May-2013
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* The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US - Now to be published by Virago
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Grace and Mary
By Melvyn Bragg
Hardback
Published 09-May-2013
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By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.
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One
By Florence Knight
Hardback
Published 04-Jul-2013
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The Art of Simple Cooking: beautiful dishes inspired by everyday ingredients.
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Here and Now
By Paul Auster
Hardback
Published 16-May-2013
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Offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page.
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Devonshires
By Roy Hattersley
Hardback
Published 09-May-2013
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William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Fifty years later, the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II, and make William of Orange king.
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Edmund Burke
By Jesse Norman
Hardback
Published 09-May-2013
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Both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant than in today's 'Big Society', as MP Jesse Norman explains.
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Garry Winogrand
By Leo Rubinfien
Hardback
Published 05-Apr-2013
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Widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand did much of his work in Manhattan during the 1960s, becoming an epic chronicler of that tumultuous decade. This title presents a portrait of an artist who unflinchingly captured America's swings between optimism and upheaval in the postwar era.
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