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Instructions For A Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell - Paperback - Tinder Press
London, July 1976. It hasn't rained for months, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
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The Island House
Posie Graeme-Evans - Paperback - Hodder
Posie Graeme-Evans' novel plunges the reader into a past that never dies and a love that reaches out across a thousand years, as a young archaeologist unearths ancient secrets and Viking treasure on a remote Scottish island.
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Indian Nocturne
Antonio Tabucchi - Paperback - Canongate
Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religious order.
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If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead
Andrew Nicoll - Paperback - Quercus
As the Allies bomb Hamburg, Otto Witte is convinced he is going to die, and so decides to write his life story for the poor soul who finds what's left of him the next morning. Years earlier, when he was working in the circus, he hatched a plan to become the next King of Albania - and succeeded.
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The Incident
Kenneth Macleod - Paperback - Phoenix
'The Incident' is a searingly powerful novel about fate; about those moments that change the course of a life forever. It is also a book about history, from the Second World War through to the current day, and the way incidents long past can reverberate across generations.
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£11.89
Instructions For A Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell - Paperback - Tinder
London, July 1976. It hasn't rained for months, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
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Instructions For A Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell - Hardback - Tinder Press
London, July 1976. It hasn't rained for months, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
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If I Touched The Earth
Cynthia Rogerson - Paperback - Black & White
When her son Calum dies in a car crash, Alison is left stunned and dazed. But instead of turning to those around her for comfort, she impulsively leaves them behind, desperate to hide from her loss.
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The Instructions
Adam Levin - Paperback - Canongate
This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten. Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies. In just four days, from the moment he meets the beautiful Eliza June Watermark to the terrifying Events of November 17, his search for righteousness sparks a violent, unstoppable rebellion.
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The Instructions
Adam Levin - Paperback - Canongate
This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten. Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies. In just four days, from the moment he meets the beautiful Eliza June Watermark to the terrifying Events of November 17, his search for righteousness sparks a violent, unstoppable rebellion.