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A Delicate Truth
Author :
John le Carre
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Post Iraq war and post new labour story about rendition and privatisation of the state.
Synopsis 15 words
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09 Nov '17
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9 Nov '17
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fiction
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Things We Never Said
Author :
Nick Alexander
Published: 2016
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Synopsis extract:
50 something Sean's wife has just died of cancer leaving him a box of memory tapes she created whilst in terminal care revealing some truths about their 30 year relationship.
Synopsis 28 words
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15 Oct '17
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15 Oct '17
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fiction
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A Good Man in Africa
Author :
William Boyd
Published: 1981
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Synopsis extract:
Morgan is a 30 something diplomat in the British Commission in the second city of a west african ex colony. ...
Synopsis 67 words
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13 Oct '17
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13 Oct '17
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fiction
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The Secret Pilgrim
unlisted author
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Ned's reminiscences as Smiley's protege over 30 years in "The Circus" prompted by Smiley's after dinner talk to the latest bunch of recruits to spying in the new world. ...
Synopsis 45 words
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11 Oct '17
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11 Oct '17
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fiction
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The Silent Boy
Author :
Andrew Taylor
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
During french revolution boy witness murder of mother (a courtesan married and separated to an englishman) and is struck dumb. ...
Synopsis 36 words
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08 Oct '17
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8 Oct '17
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fiction
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The Childrens Book
Author :
A S Byatt
Published: 2009
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Synopsis extract:
Story of a group of children and their upper middle class families growing up in late 19th and early 20th century. ...
Synopsis 38 words
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25 Aug '17
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25 Aug '17
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fiction
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The Martian
Author :
Andy Weir
Published: 2013
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Synopsis extract:
Astronaut inadvertently abandoned on Mars has to survive for 2 years to be rescued with food for 2 months.
Synopsis 17 words
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10 Aug '17
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10 Aug '17
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fiction
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Things Fall Apart
Author :
Chinua Achebe
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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09 Aug '17
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9 Aug '17
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fiction
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Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth
An introduction to spiritual ecology
Author :
John Michael Greer
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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08 Aug '17
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8 Aug '17
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non-fiction
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Dark Matter
Author :
Blake Crouch
Published: 2016
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Synopsis extract:
Present day parallel universes science fiction
Synopsis 6 words
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01 Aug '17
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1 Aug '17
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fiction
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Station Eleven
Author :
Emily St.John Mandel
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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01 Aug '17
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1 Aug '17
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fiction
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Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author :
Robert Pirsig
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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15 Jul '17
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15 Jul '17
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non-fiction
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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01 Jul '17
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1 Jul '17
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fiction
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The Little Red Chairs
Author :
Edna O'Brian
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Slobodan Milosovic trying to evade the war crimes tribunal turns up as a healer in Ireland. ...
Synopsis 31 words
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01 Jul '17
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1 Jul '17
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fiction
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The Luminaries
Author :
Eleanor Catton
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
New Zealand gold rush in 19th Century
Synopsis 7 words
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01 Jul '17
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1 Jul '17
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fiction
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Blackout
Author :
Ragnar Jonasson
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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15 Jun '17
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15 Jun '17
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fiction
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The Company of Trees
Author :
Thomas Pakenham
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
A personal account of a tree collector's estate (demense) in Ireland (Tullynally) in the form of a diary.
Synopsis 18 words
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10 Apr '17
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10 Apr '17
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non-fiction
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Author :
Claire North
Published: 2014
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Synopsis extract:
There are people who do not get born live and die but who go round in a circle being reborn to the same parents in the same time after death with memory intact. ...
Synopsis 47 words
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26 Mar '17
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26 Mar '17
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fiction
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Once in Europa
Author :
John Berger
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Odile, born to peasant family in the alps, reflects on her life from the viewpoint of a hangglider or balloon which her son Christian is flying her on/in
Synopsis 29 words
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12 Mar '17
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12 Mar '17
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fiction
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Public Library and Other Stories
Author :
Ali Smith
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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12 Mar '17
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12 Mar '17
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non-fiction
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Nothing But Grass
Author :
Will Cohu
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
An event on a Lincolnshire Estate in the 19 century has echos in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Synopsis 19 words
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05 Mar '17
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5 Mar '17
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fiction
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Ecology of Wisdom
Author :
Arne Naas
Published: 2008
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Synopsis extract:
A collection of his writings spanning 30+ years. ...
Synopsis 16 words
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22 Feb '17
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22 Feb '17
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non-fiction
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Gold Fame Citrus
Author :
Claire Vaye Watkins
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Dystopian near future in California/Arizona once climate change has made it uninhabitable and created a vast sand dune desert in the SW. ...
Synopsis 51 words
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19 Feb '17
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19 Feb '17
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fiction
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The Making of the English Landscape
Author :
W.G. Hoskins
Published: 1955
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Synopsis extract:
Does what it says on the title
Synopsis 7 words
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25 Jan '17
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25 Jan '17
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non-fiction
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Pig Earth
Author :
John Berger
Published: 1979
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Synopsis extract:
Tales of peasant life in French alps. ...
Synopsis 11 words
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21 Jan '17
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21 Jan '17
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fiction
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