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Flight Behaviour
Author :
Barbara Kingsolver
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
A modern fable of the effects of changes and relationships
Synopsis 10 words
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24 May '13
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24 May '13
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fiction
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Company of Liars
Author :
Karen Maitland
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Synopsis extract:
A walk in company through 14th Century England during the plague
Synopsis 11 words
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23 May '13
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23 May '13
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fiction
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Cranford
Author :
Elizabeth Gaskell
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No summary or synopsis available
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18 May '13
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18 May '13
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fiction
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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
Author :
Stieg Larsson
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Synopsis extract:
lisbeth back in action
Synopsis 4 words
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17 May '13
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17 May '13
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fiction
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Our Kind of Traitor
Author :
John le Carre
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Synopsis extract:
Russian criminal oligarch defects to British Intelligence to escape being overthrown. ...
Synopsis 27 words
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30 Apr '13
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30 Apr '13
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fiction
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Roseanna
Martin Beck Book 1
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1962
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Synopsis extract:
Swedish police procedural investigation of murder
Synopsis 6 words
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05 Apr '13
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5 Apr '13
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fiction
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Human Traces
Author :
Sebastian Faulks
Published: 2005
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No summary or synopsis available
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10 Mar '13
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10 Mar '13
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fiction
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Why Are We The Good Guys?
Author :
David Cromwell
Published: 2012
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Synopsis extract:
First half is analysis of media bias and propoganda focusing on war, climate and economics. ...
Synopsis 27 words
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08 Mar '13
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8 Mar '13
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non-fiction
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Author :
Stig Larsson
Published: 2006
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Synopsis extract:
Lisabeth Salander and Mikael Bloomkist are back in this time we learn that the villian is her father and Mikael ends up saving her life.
Synopsis 25 words
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24 Feb '13
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24 Feb '13
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fiction
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The Song of Achilles
Author :
Madeline Miller
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Synopsis extract:
Patrolclus' story from boyhood to death on the plains of Troy at the hands of Hector
Synopsis 16 words
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17 Feb '13
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17 Feb '13
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fiction
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The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Author :
Jonas Jonasson
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Synopsis extract:
What the title says and then who he finds a trunk of money and drawing on his experience of having been places and met most significant world leaders in 20th century manages to make a new gang of friends and best the violent crooks who own the ...
Synopsis 58 words
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12 Jan '13
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12 Jan '13
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fiction
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The Last Englishman
The double life of Arthur Ransome
Author :
Roland Chambers
Published: 2009
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Synopsis extract:
Biography of A.Ransome covering the time before he became a writer, while he experienced the russian revolution and its aftermath
Synopsis 21 words
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04 Jan '13
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4 Jan '13
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non-fiction
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author :
Stieg Larsson
Published: 2005
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Synopsis extract:
Introducing Lisbeth and Bloomkist
Synopsis 4 words
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15 Dec '12
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15 Dec '12
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fiction
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Kind of Cruel
Author :
Sophie Hannah
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Synopsis extract:
Stupid people in a stupid story
Synopsis 6 words
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14 Dec '12
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14 Dec '12
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fiction
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Shieldwall
Author :
Justin Hill
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Synopsis extract:
11th century history from 1000ish to 1020ish told through eyes of Wolfnucuth who becomes adviser to Edmund Ironside
Synopsis 18 words
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06 Dec '12
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6 Dec '12
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fiction
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Wolf Hall
Author :
Hilary Mantel
Published: 2009
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Synopsis extract:
The rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell adviser to Henry 8th (and great grandad of the later Cromwell Lord Protector)
Synopsis 20 words
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24 Nov '12
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24 Nov '12
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fiction
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Chavs
Author :
Owen Jones
Published: 2010
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Synopsis extract:
The demonisation of the working class since 1978 and its social ill effects for all
Synopsis 14 words
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10 Nov '12
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10 Nov '12
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non-fiction
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The Great Night
Author :
Chris Aidan
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
A dream of midsummer night in San Fransisco while the faeries come out to play
Synopsis 15 words
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03 Oct '12
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3 Oct '12
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fiction
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Goethe's Science of Living Form
The Artistic Stages
Authors :
Nigel Hoffman , Craig Holdrege
Published: 2007
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Synopsis extract:
A presentation of ideas drawn from Goethe's approach to wholistic science with a practical example
Synopsis 15 words
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25 Sep '12
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25 Sep '12
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non-fiction
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The Blue Fox
Author :
Sjon
Published: 2008
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Synopsis extract:
Iceland
Synopsis 1 words
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20 Sep '12
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20 Sep '12
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fiction
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Ragnarok: the End of the Gods
Author :
A S Byatt
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
A view of nordic gods
Synopsis 5 words
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13 Sep '12
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13 Sep '12
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fiction
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Where the Wasteland Ends
Author :
Theodore Roszak
Published: 1972
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No summary or synopsis available
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28 Aug '12
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28 Aug '12
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non-fiction
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The Book of Lies
Author :
Mary Horlock
Published: 2011
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No summary or synopsis available
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10 Aug '12
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10 Aug '12
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fiction
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This Is Paradise
Author :
Will Eaves
Published: 2012
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Synopsis extract:
story of a family told elliptically around the aging and dying of the mother
Synopsis 14 words
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22 Jul '12
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22 Jul '12
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fiction
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Angelmaker
Author :
Nick Harkaway
Published: 2012
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No summary or synopsis available
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09 Jun '12
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9 Jun '12
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fiction
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