A selection of titles featured in the popular media over the coming days.
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James, P.D.
Paperback
Features three of P D James' best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: "A Taste for Death", "Devices...
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Rubenhold, Hallie
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In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs G...
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Bostridge, Mark
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The soldier's saviour, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer - and ...
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Hines, Barry
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Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small York...
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Sebald, W.G.
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A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East...
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Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
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A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented b...
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Marnham, Patrick
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Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousand...
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Koestler, Arthur
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N S Rubashov, an old guard Communist, falls victim to an unnamed government. This novel traces hi...
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Dyer, Geoff
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When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff D...
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Mason, Daniel
Paperback
It is 1886 and piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office - he must l...
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Morrison, Toni
Hardback
In the 1680s, the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and c...
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Mackay, Shena
Hardback
Contains thirteen new stories, and a selection of twenty-three more from the collections of the a...
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Hasek, Jaroslav; Parrott, Cecil (Translator); Lada, Josef (Illustrator)
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Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier...
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Wullschlager, Jackie
Hardback
Book of the Week - Monday 27 - Friday 31 October
Presents an account of Chagall, the man and the artist - and of a life as intense, theatrical and...
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Pownall, David
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Book at Bedtime - Monday 27 - Friday 7 November
Presents the story of Edward Prince of Wales, and his passionate and defiant relationship with th...
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Cornwell, Bernard
Hardback
Open Book - 26th October - Mariella talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell, whose latest book is a vivid retelling of the events leading up to the battle of Agincourt. He explains how growing up in a bizarre religious cult fostered a love of history, a...
An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one ...
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Shute, Nevil
Other Type
Open Book - 26th October - Mariella talks to the Australian writer Gideon Haigh about Nevil Shute's masterpiece On the Beach. Published in 1957, it's a chilling portrait of the world a year after a major nuclear war has devastated the planet. Gideon ex...
Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenort...
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Flaubert, Gustave; Parmee, Douglas (Editor)
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Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October,Book at Bedtime - Monday 6 - 24 October
Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young la...
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Holmes, Richard
Hardback
Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,,Book of the Week - Monday 13 - Friday 17 October,
Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific fermen...
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