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Winterkill
Dark Iceland 6
Author :
Ragnar Jonasson
Published: 2020
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Back in Siglufjörður with Ari Thor, now police inspector for the town, as a girl dies and his partner and child visit for Easter weekend
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18 May '22
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18 May '22
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fiction
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Wyrd Sisters
Author :
Terry Pratchett
Published: 2014
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Macbeth meets Discworld
Synopsis 44 words
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20 Apr '22
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20 Apr '22
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fiction
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Grasshopper
Author :
Barbara Vine
Published: 2000
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Death falling from a pylon and death and near-death falling from a roof recounted eleven years later by 30-something Clodagh
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02 Apr '22
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2 Apr '22
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fiction
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Whiteout
Dark Iceland 5
Author :
Ragnar Jonasson
Published: 2017
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Mixing the past and present again as Ari Thor investigates a death at a remote house on a headland by a lighthouse.
Synopsis 66 words
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19 Mar '22
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19 Mar '22
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fiction
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The Old Ways
A Journey on Foot
Author :
Robert Macfarlane
Published: 2012
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An account of 16 walks, or track followings, in the form of psycho-geographical poetic meditations.
Synopsis 30 words
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01 Mar '22
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1 Mar '22
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non-fiction
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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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