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The Fire Engine That Disappeared 

Authors : Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


01 Jul '17

1 Jul '17

fiction

The Little Red Chairs 

Author : Edna O'Brian 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Slobodan Milosovic trying to evade the war crimes tribunal turns up as a healer in Ireland. ...

Synopsis 31 words


01 Jul '17  

1 Jul '17

fiction

The Luminaries 

Author : Eleanor Catton 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: New Zealand gold rush in 19th Century

Synopsis 7 words


01 Jul '17  

1 Jul '17

fiction

Blackout 

Author : Ragnar Jonasson 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

fiction

The Company of Trees 

Author : Thomas Pakenham 

Published: 2015

Synopsis extract: A personal account of a tree collector's estate (demense) in Ireland (Tullynally) in the form of a diary.

Synopsis 18 words


10 Apr '17  

10 Apr '17

non-fiction

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 

Author : Claire North 

Published: 2014

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


26 Mar '17  

26 Mar '17

fiction

Once in Europa 

Author : John Berger 

Published: 2000

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


12 Mar '17  

12 Mar '17

fiction

Public Library and Other Stories 

Author : Ali Smith 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


12 Mar '17  

12 Mar '17

non-fiction

Nothing But Grass 

Author : Will Cohu 

Published: 2015

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


05 Mar '17  

5 Mar '17

fiction

Ecology of Wisdom 

Author : Arne Naas 

Published: 2008

Synopsis extract: A collection of his writings spanning 30+ years. ...

Synopsis 16 words


22 Feb '17  

22 Feb '17

non-fiction

Gold Fame Citrus 

Author : Claire Vaye Watkins 

Published: 2000

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


19 Feb '17  

19 Feb '17

fiction

The Making of the English Landscape 

Author : W.G. Hoskins 

Published: 1955

Synopsis extract: Does what it says on the title

Synopsis 7 words


25 Jan '17  

25 Jan '17

non-fiction

Pig Earth 

Author : John Berger 

Published: 1979

Synopsis extract: Tales of peasant life in French alps. ...

Synopsis 11 words


21 Jan '17  

21 Jan '17

fiction

New Finnish Grammer 

Author : Diego Marani 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: Presumed sailor found on Trieste dockside during WWII with memory loss. ...

Synopsis 30 words


06 Jan '17  

6 Jan '17

fiction

The Swordfish and the Star 

Author : Gavin Knight 

Published: 2015

Synopsis extract: Life in the fishing and artistic communities of far west Cornwall from 1970s to date. ...

Synopsis 21 words


05 Jan '17  

5 Jan '17

non-fiction

Fleeing Vesuvius 
Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse

Editors : Richard Douthwaite , Gillian Fallon 

Published: 2010

No summary or synopsis available


01 Jan '17

1 Jan '17

non-fiction

The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote 

Author : Dan Micklethwaite 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: Young woman lives alone in a tower block flat furnished with fairy tales which she inhabits using bottles of red wine as the entrance to a fantasy world.

Synopsis 28 words


13 Dec '16  

13 Dec '16

fiction

Nightblind 

Author : Ragnar Jonasson 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: Second in the series picks up the hero 4 years later still a detective policeman in small town in N.Iceland investigating another strange death - this time his boss. ...

Synopsis 40 words


01 Dec '16  

1 Dec '16

fiction

The Well at the Worlds End 

Author : William Morris 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Young prince leaves parents kingdom to go a-questing. ...

Synopsis 29 words


26 Nov '16  

26 Nov '16

fiction

A Guide for the Perplexed 

Author : EF Schmacher 

Published: 1977

Synopsis extract: Philosophical Maps Levels of Being - Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man,... ...

Synopsis 104 words


03 Nov '16  

3 Nov '16

non-fiction

Americanah 

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Nigerian middle class woman gets to US to go to college and then returns to the love of her life many years later

Synopsis 23 words


02 Oct '16  

2 Oct '16

fiction

SPQR 
A History of Ancient Rome

Author : Mary Beard 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

non-fiction

Clade 

Author : James Bradley 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Episodic glimpses of the future in a climate changing world

Synopsis 10 words


04 Sep '16  

4 Sep '16

fiction

Ghostwritten 

Author : David Mitchell 

Published: 1999

Synopsis extract: About 8 interconnected scenes taking us to the edge of extinction at the hands of our creations

Synopsis 16 words


29 Aug '16  

29 Aug '16

fiction

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death 

Author : MC Beaton 

Published: 2002

Synopsis extract: PR Consultant retires to the Cotswolds and gets drawn in to uncovering a murder

Synopsis 14 words


23 Aug '16  

23 Aug '16

fiction