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The Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Author :
William Dalrymple
Published: 2019
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The rise of the East India Company from small trading organisation to the first global corporation more powerful than a coumtry
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27 Feb '22
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27 Feb '22
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non-fiction
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
unlisted author
Published: 1956
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Based on interviews with old people in a traditional Suffolk farming village (Braxhall, near Woodbridge) during the early 1950's - remembering the pre-mechanisation farming and village life.
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19 Jan '22
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19 Jan '22
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non-fiction
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The Creak on the Stairs
Author :
Eva Bjoerg AEgisdottir
Published: 2020
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A murder resulting from child abuse 30 years ago in a small town community
Synopsis 124 words
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05 Jan '22
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5 Jan '22
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fiction
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The Sea, the Sea
Author :
Iris Murdoch
Published: 1978
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Theatre luvvy actor/director star retires to house by sea.
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02 Jan '22
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2 Jan '22
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fiction
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The Web of Meaning
Author :
Jeremy Lent
Published: 2021
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Pulling it all together - everything is connected and we need to really know or live that
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13 Dec '21
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13 Dec '21
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non-fiction
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Author :
Andreas Malm
Published: 2021
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Not an instruction manual but an argument for doing it.
Synopsis 133 words
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23 Nov '21
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23 Nov '21
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non-fiction
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The Gustav Sonata
Author :
Rose Tremain
Published: 2017
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Only in their sixties do Gustav and Anton achieve their destiny
Synopsis 77 words
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21 Nov '21
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21 Nov '21
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fiction
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Rupture
Author :
Ragnar Jonasson
Published: 2012
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Dark Iceland (book 4 in English series)
Synopsis 186 words
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18 Nov '21
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18 Nov '21
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fiction
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Recursion
Author :
Blake Crouch
Published: 2019
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Memory and time. Paradoxes and spirals.
Synopsis 73 words
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08 Nov '21
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8 Nov '21
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fiction
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Author :
Olga Tokarczuk
Published: 2009
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Polish existential thriller
Synopsis 86 words
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22 Oct '21
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22 Oct '21
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fiction
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Introduction to Systems Philosophy
Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought
Author :
Ervin Laszlo
Published: 1972
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How it all fits together as systems of systems
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22 Oct '21
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22 Oct '21
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non-fiction
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A Bit of a Stretch
The diaries of a prisoner
Author :
Chris Atkins
Published: 2020
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Diary of 12 months spent as a prisoner in Wandsworth by the author
Synopsis 26 words
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13 Oct '21
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13 Oct '21
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non-fiction
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Middle England
Rotters Club 3
Author :
Jonathan Coe
Published: 2019
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2010-2017 for the middle classes of middle england
Synopsis 39 words
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05 Oct '21
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5 Oct '21
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fiction
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Small Pleasures
Author :
Clare Chambers
Published: 2020
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1957 life in SE London/Kent
Synopsis 118 words
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15 Sep '21
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15 Sep '21
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fiction
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The Last Kingdom
Author :
Bernard Cornwell
Published: 2004
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The wars between the Danes, the Saxons and the Britons as seen by a Northumberland lad.
Synopsis 56 words
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15 Jun '21
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15 Jun '21
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fiction
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Shuggie Bain
Author :
Douglas Stuart
Published: 2020
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Single parent life from pov of mother and son in Glasgow 1980s
Synopsis 60 words
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01 Jun '21
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1 Jun '21
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fiction
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The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax
Author :
Christopher Shevlin
Published: 2011
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Everyman Jonathon helps bring down the government by uncovering a conspiracy of corruption.
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22 Apr '21
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22 Apr '21
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fiction
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Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
War Communism in the 21st Century
Author :
Andreas Malm
Published: 2020
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Pulling together the strands of Covid19, ecological crisis and traditional marxist-lenninist analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalism.
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12 Apr '21
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12 Apr '21
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non-fiction
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Pine
Author :
Francine Toon
Published: 2020
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Crime or Horror or a simple Ghost Story through the eyse of a 10 year old girl.
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23 Mar '21
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23 Mar '21
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fiction
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The Old Drift
Author :
Namwali Serpell
Published: 2019
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A saga of Zambia spanning the 20th Century and beyond.
Synopsis 53 words
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02 Mar '21
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2 Mar '21
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fiction
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Borkmann’s Point
Van Veeteren Book 2
Author :
Hakan Nesser
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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21 Jan '21
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21 Jan '21
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fiction
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Entangled Life
How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
Author :
Merlin Sheldrake
Published: 2020
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An introduction to the world from the point of view of fungi. Symbiotic beings which live as a network.
Synopsis 107 words
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21 Jan '21
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21 Jan '21
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non-fiction
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The Garden Jungle
Gardening to Save the Planet
Author :
Dave Goulson
Published: 2019
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The wildlife in the English garden explored. Be friends with your bugs and wee beasties. Plus recipes!
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04 Jan '21
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4 Jan '21
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non-fiction
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Author :
Victor Serge
Published: 1943
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Life in the Soviet Union in the Party around 1938/9 and the during preceding 30 years
Synopsis 69 words
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03 Jan '21
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3 Jan '21
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fiction
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Author :
Delia Owens
Published: 2018
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Girl child of 7 lives alone in the North Carolina marsh after her family all leave her abusive dad. Grows into a strange isolated young woman, who is taught by nature and the marsh.
Synopsis 406 words
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26 Nov '20
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26 Nov '20
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fiction
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