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Heaven's Command
An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica)
Author :
Jan Morris
Published: 2003
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Synopsis extract:
1837-1897 History of the growth of the British Empire
Synopsis 9 words
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11 Dec '13
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11 Dec '13
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non-fiction
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The Scent of Death
Author :
Andrew Taylor
Published: 2013
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Synopsis extract:
New York during the war of independence.
Synopsis 7 words
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10 Nov '13
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10 Nov '13
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fiction
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Galapagos
Author :
Kurt Vonnegut
Published: 1985
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Synopsis extract:
How humanity evolves over the next million years
Synopsis 8 words
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02 Nov '13
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2 Nov '13
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fiction
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Snake Oil
How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
Author :
Richard Heinberg
Published: 2013
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Synopsis extract:
Fracking, the future of hydro carbons and the economy
Synopsis 9 words
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25 Oct '13
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25 Oct '13
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non-fiction
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Memoires of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Maddness of Crowds
Author :
Charles Mackay
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Synopsis extract:
What it says on the title - the mid 19th century view.
Synopsis 12 words
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20 Oct '13
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20 Oct '13
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non-fiction
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Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
Solo into the Unknown
Author :
Crispin Latymer
Published: 2009
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Synopsis extract:
Solo transatlantic sail
Synopsis 3 words
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19 Oct '13
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19 Oct '13
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non-fiction
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Merivel: A Man of His Time
Author :
Rose Tremain
Published: 2012
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Synopsis extract:
Follow up to Restoration (which I had forgotten reading and enjoying) picks up Merivel's mature life
Synopsis 16 words
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18 Sep '13
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18 Sep '13
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fiction
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The Detective's Daughter
Author :
Lesley Thomson
Published: 2013
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Synopsis extract:
Investigation of a murder picked up by the daughter of the detective who originally investigated 20 years ago whoo turns out coincidentally to know or get involved with the protagionists
Synopsis 29 words
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01 Sep '13
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1 Sep '13
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fiction
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Bring Up The Bodies
Author :
Hilary Mantel
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
Thomas Cromwell's continuing rise and rise in the court of Henry 8th
Synopsis 12 words
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31 Aug '13
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31 Aug '13
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fiction
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Author :
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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No summary or synopsis available
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15 Aug '13
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15 Aug '13
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fiction
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Author :
Rachel Joyce
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Synopsis extract:
Harold, aged about 65, recently retired, walks out of house in Kingsbridge Devon to post a letter to an old colleague dying of cancer in Berwick upon Tweed and carries on walking to visit her in person leaving wife Maud at home
Synopsis 41 words
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14 Aug '13
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14 Aug '13
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fiction
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The Woman Who Walked Into The Sea
Author :
Mark Douglas-Home
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Synopsis extract:
Thriller/murder mystery set in scotland spanning a generation
Synopsis 9 words
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08 Jul '13
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8 Jul '13
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fiction
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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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