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Public Library and Other Stories
Author :
Ali Smith
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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12 Mar '17
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12 Mar '17
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non-fiction
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Nothing But Grass
Author :
Will Cohu
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
An event on a Lincolnshire Estate in the 19 century has echos in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Synopsis 19 words
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05 Mar '17
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5 Mar '17
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fiction
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Ecology of Wisdom
Author :
Arne Naas
Published: 2008
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Synopsis extract:
A collection of his writings spanning 30+ years. ...
Synopsis 16 words
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22 Feb '17
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22 Feb '17
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non-fiction
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Gold Fame Citrus
Author :
Claire Vaye Watkins
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Dystopian near future in California/Arizona once climate change has made it uninhabitable and created a vast sand dune desert in the SW. ...
Synopsis 51 words
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19 Feb '17
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19 Feb '17
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fiction
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The Making of the English Landscape
Author :
W.G. Hoskins
Published: 1955
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Synopsis extract:
Does what it says on the title
Synopsis 7 words
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25 Jan '17
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25 Jan '17
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non-fiction
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Pig Earth
Author :
John Berger
Published: 1979
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Synopsis extract:
Tales of peasant life in French alps. ...
Synopsis 11 words
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21 Jan '17
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21 Jan '17
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fiction
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New Finnish Grammer
Author :
Diego Marani
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
Presumed sailor found on Trieste dockside during WWII with memory loss. ...
Synopsis 30 words
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06 Jan '17
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6 Jan '17
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fiction
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The Swordfish and the Star
Author :
Gavin Knight
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
Life in the fishing and artistic communities of far west Cornwall from 1970s to date. ...
Synopsis 21 words
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05 Jan '17
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5 Jan '17
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non-fiction
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Fleeing Vesuvius
Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse
Editors : Richard Douthwaite , Gillian Fallon
Published: 2010
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No summary or synopsis available
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01 Jan '17
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1 Jan '17
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non-fiction
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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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