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The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote
Author :
Dan Micklethwaite
Published: 2016
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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
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13 Dec '16
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13 Dec '16
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fiction
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Nightblind
Author :
Ragnar Jonasson
Published: 2016
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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
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01 Dec '16
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1 Dec '16
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fiction
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The Well at the Worlds End
Author :
William Morris
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Young prince leaves parents kingdom to go a-questing. ...
Synopsis 29 words
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26 Nov '16
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26 Nov '16
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fiction
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A Guide for the Perplexed
Author :
EF Schmacher
Published: 1977
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Synopsis extract:
Philosophical Maps Levels of Being - Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man,... ...
Synopsis 104 words
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03 Nov '16
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3 Nov '16
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non-fiction
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Americanah
Author :
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published: 2013
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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
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02 Oct '16
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2 Oct '16
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fiction
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SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
Author :
Mary Beard
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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18 Sep '16
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18 Sep '16
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non-fiction
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Clade
Author :
James Bradley
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Episodic glimpses of the future in a climate changing world
Synopsis 10 words
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04 Sep '16
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4 Sep '16
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fiction
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Ghostwritten
Author :
David Mitchell
Published: 1999
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Synopsis extract:
About 8 interconnected scenes taking us to the edge of extinction at the hands of our creations
Synopsis 16 words
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29 Aug '16
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29 Aug '16
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fiction
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Author :
MC Beaton
Published: 2002
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Synopsis extract:
PR Consultant retires to the Cotswolds and gets drawn in to uncovering a murder
Synopsis 14 words
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23 Aug '16
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23 Aug '16
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fiction
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A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Authors :
Christopher Alexander , Sara Ishikawa , Murray Silverstein
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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21 Aug '16
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21 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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Vanity Fair
Author :
William Makepeace Thackery
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Becky and Emmy make their way through the upper middle classes of 1812-1825
Synopsis 13 words
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20 Aug '16
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20 Aug '16
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fiction
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The Forgiveness of Nature
Author :
Graham Harvey
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
The story of grass
Synopsis 4 words
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07 Aug '16
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7 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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Plato's Revenge
Politics in the Age of Ecology
Author :
William Ophuls
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
Linking together psychology ecology and philosophy to build a possible alternative way to be
Synopsis 14 words
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01 Aug '16
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1 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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The Great Pursuit
Author :
Tom Sharpe
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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24 Jul '16
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24 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Midden
Author :
Tom Sharpe
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Farce involving an incompetent rich scion, a chief constable and his wife and a drug fueled motorbike ride from devon to Yorkshire
Synopsis 22 words
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09 Jul '16
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9 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Things We Never Said
Author :
Susan Elliot Wright
Published: 2012
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Synopsis extract:
In mid 60s a young woman is in a mental hospital having had a child taken from her. ...
Synopsis 35 words
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05 Jul '16
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5 Jul '16
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fiction
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Deaf Sentence
Author :
David Lodge
Published: 2008
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Synopsis extract:
Prof retires whilst wife starts a new career and his father refuses to move from the old family house where he is going demented. ...
Synopsis 49 words
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01 Jul '16
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1 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Laughing Policeman
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1967
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Synopsis extract:
4th in Martin Beck series. ...
Synopsis 16 words
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06 Jun '16
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6 Jun '16
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fiction
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The Second Midnight
Author :
Andrew Taylor
Published: 1987
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Synopsis extract:
Abandoned by his father in Prague pre WWI Hugh has to make it on his own - which he does and emerges in British Intelligence some time later
Synopsis 28 words
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22 May '16
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22 May '16
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fiction
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Fractured
Author :
Clar Ni Chonghaile
Published: 2016
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Synopsis extract:
Three points of view: journalist kidnapped in war torn Somalia. ...
Synopsis 21 words
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01 May '16
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1 May '16
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fiction
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The Man on the Balcony
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1967
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Synopsis extract:
3rd Martin Beck.Someone is killing young girls in parks in Stockholm
Synopsis 12 words
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23 Apr '16
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23 Apr '16
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fiction
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The Wolf Border
Author :
Sarah Hall
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
Woman working as an ecologist & conservationist with Wolves in Idaho Reservation gets involved in a re-wilding project in Cumbria.
Synopsis 20 words
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05 Apr '16
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5 Apr '16
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fiction
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The Convenience of Lies
Author :
Geoffrey Seed
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Journo gets involved in disappearance of girl and uncovering of a plot to replace MaggieT and arm Saddam in Iraq.
Synopsis 20 words
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27 Mar '16
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27 Mar '16
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fiction
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A Pleasure and a Calling
Author :
Phil Hogan
Published: 2014
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Synopsis extract:
Mr.Heming the small town estate agent who loves and protects his community in a way that is disturbing, disturbed, obsessive and sometimes destructive. ...
Synopsis 44 words
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17 Mar '16
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17 Mar '16
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fiction
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Harmony
A New Way of Looking at Our World
Authors :
Charlie Windsor , Tony Juniper , Ian Skelly
Published: 2010
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Synopsis extract:
What's what and what to do about what's what that should not be and how to recover what should be what.
Synopsis 21 words
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06 Mar '16
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6 Mar '16
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non-fiction
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