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Twelve Years a Slave
Author :
Solomon Northrup
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Synopsis extract:
Young american family man gets tricked into visiting Washington and gets kidnapped and sold as a slave. ...
Synopsis 27 words
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02 Mar '14
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2 Mar '14
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non-fiction
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Armadillo
Author :
William Boyd
Published: 1998
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Synopsis extract:
Lorimer/Milo is a loss-adjuster who gets caught up on the periphery of a big business property deal insurance scam dimly glimpsed through the filter of his perceptions as he becomes obsessed with an actress and deals with the dying of his father ...
Synopsis 46 words
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19 Jan '14
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19 Jan '14
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fiction
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Any Human Heart
Author :
William Boyd
Published: 2003
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Synopsis extract:
Life of Logan Mountstuart, a peripheral player in the literary scene told through his (fictional) journal through the 20th Century
Synopsis 20 words
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05 Jan '14
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5 Jan '14
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fiction
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Sarah Thornhill
Author :
Kate Grenville
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No summary or synopsis available
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24 Dec '13
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24 Dec '13
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fiction
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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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