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Waiting for Sunrise 

Author : William Boyd 

Synopsis extract: Spying in the first world war era

Synopsis 7 words


01 Jul '14  

1 Jul '14

fiction

Communities That Abide 

Editor : Dimitry Orlov 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: A short collection of essays around the theme of tools and techniques that create lasting communities

Synopsis 16 words


29 Jun '14  

29 Jun '14

non-fiction

Life After Life 

Author : Kate Atkinson 

Synopsis extract: Born in 1910, with various terminating points (the darkness fell) and then restarting the story of a girl, woman growing up through various unlikely historical connections

Synopsis 25 words


26 Jun '14  

26 Jun '14

fiction

Artemis Fowl 

Author : Eoin Colfer 

Synopsis extract: Boy genius tangles with faries in attempt to steal their gold for his evil plans

Synopsis 15 words


23 Jun '14  

23 Jun '14

fiction

Green Wizardry 

Author : John Greer 

No summary or synopsis available


15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

non-fiction

Meadowland 
The private life of an English Field

Author : John Lewis-Stempel 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: A diary/journal of observations in a 5 acre meadow in a valley on the Welsh borders expanded with all the background scientific, historical and social lore you could want.

Synopsis 29 words


24 May '14  

24 May '14

non-fiction

Stoner: A Novel 

Author : John Williams 

Synopsis extract: Stoner, son of poor farmers in the 1900 mid-West USA, goes to college to study agriculture and switches to Eng.Lit - and remains at the university for the rest of time.

Synopsis 31 words


21 May '14  

21 May '14

fiction

Macbeth: A Novel 

Authors : A J Hartley , David Hewson 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Macbeth's story told as a novel, based largely on the play with some variations

Synopsis 14 words


03 Apr '14  

3 Apr '14

fiction

Twelve Years a Slave  

Author : Solomon Northrup 

Synopsis extract: Young american family man gets tricked into visiting Washington and gets kidnapped and sold as a slave. ...

Synopsis 27 words


02 Mar '14  

2 Mar '14

non-fiction

Armadillo 

Author : William Boyd 

Published: 1998

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


19 Jan '14  

19 Jan '14

fiction

Any Human Heart 

Author : William Boyd 

Published: 2003

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


05 Jan '14  

5 Jan '14

fiction

Sarah Thornhill 

Author : Kate Grenville 

No summary or synopsis available


24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

fiction

Heaven's Command 
An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica)

Author : Jan Morris 

Published: 2003

Synopsis extract: 1837-1897 History of the growth of the British Empire

Synopsis 9 words


11 Dec '13  

11 Dec '13

non-fiction

The Scent of Death 

Author : Andrew Taylor 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: New York during the war of independence.

Synopsis 7 words


10 Nov '13  

10 Nov '13

fiction

Galapagos  

Author : Kurt Vonnegut 

Published: 1985

Synopsis extract: How humanity evolves over the next million years

Synopsis 8 words


02 Nov '13  

2 Nov '13

fiction

Snake Oil 
How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future

Author : Richard Heinberg 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Fracking, the future of hydro carbons and the economy

Synopsis 9 words


25 Oct '13  

25 Oct '13

non-fiction

Memoires of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Maddness of Crowds 

Author : Charles Mackay 

Synopsis extract: What it says on the title - the mid 19th century view.

Synopsis 12 words


20 Oct '13  

20 Oct '13

non-fiction

Where the Ocean Meets the Sky 
Solo into the Unknown

Author : Crispin Latymer 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: Solo transatlantic sail

Synopsis 3 words


19 Oct '13  

19 Oct '13

non-fiction

Merivel: A Man of His Time 

Author : Rose Tremain 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Follow up to Restoration (which I had forgotten reading and enjoying) picks up Merivel's mature life

Synopsis 16 words


18 Sep '13  

18 Sep '13

fiction

The Detective's Daughter 

Author : Lesley Thomson 

Published: 2013

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


01 Sep '13  

1 Sep '13

fiction

Bring Up The Bodies 

Author : Hilary Mantel 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: Thomas Cromwell's continuing rise and rise in the court of Henry 8th

Synopsis 12 words


31 Aug '13  

31 Aug '13

fiction

The Complete Sherlock Holmes 

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

No summary or synopsis available


15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

fiction

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 

Author : Rachel Joyce 

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


14 Aug '13  

14 Aug '13

fiction

The Woman Who Walked Into The Sea 

Author : Mark Douglas-Home 

Synopsis extract: Thriller/murder mystery set in scotland spanning a generation

Synopsis 9 words


08 Jul '13

8 Jul '13

fiction

Flight Behaviour 

Author : Barbara Kingsolver 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: A modern fable of the effects of changes and relationships

Synopsis 10 words


24 May '13  

24 May '13

fiction