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Rhonda Byrne - Room
Emma Donoghue - The Help
Kathryn Stockett - The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas - The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson - A Pocket History of Ireland
Joseph McCullough - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson - Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson - Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert - One Day
David Nicholls - Don't Blink
James Patterson - Alone in Berlin
Hans Fallada - Ghost Light
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The English Patient
Michael OndaatjePaperback · 02 Aug 2004 · €12.00
"English Patient" is the winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.
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Close Range "Brokeback Mountain"
Annie ProulxPaperback · 07 Nov 2005 · €9.99
The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger.
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The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. TolkienPaperback · 05 Jun 1995 · €26.70
All three parts of the epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings' in one paperback. Features brand new packaging, the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the original two-colour maps, and a revised and expanded index.
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The Hours
Michael CunninghamPaperback · 07 Oct 1999 · €9.99
Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In 1990s New York, Clarissa Vaughan goes shopping for flowers for a party for her AIDS-suffering poet-friend. This novel meditates on artistic behaviour, love and madness.
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Schindler's Ark
Thomas KeneallyPaperback · 28 Dec 2006 · €9.99
Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller
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Misery
Stephen KingPaperback · 31 May 2007 · €9.99
Reissue of the international bestseller in the dramatic new graphic cover style of No. 1 bestseller, CELL
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The Constant Gardener
John Le CarrePaperback · 10 Oct 2005 · €9.99
Presents the story of a man ennobled by his wife's tragic murder, and an exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism.
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Rebecca
Daphne Du MaurierPaperback · 30 Jan 2003 · €9.99
* One of the most famous novels of the 20th century * A dark tale of the feminine unconscious
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret MitchellPaperback · 20 Sep 1991 · €12.00
First published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthyPaperback · 04 Jan 2008 · €9.99
Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, finds bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events.
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Tom Jones
Henry FieldingPaperback · 14 Aug 2008 · €12.00
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The Grapes of Wrath
John SteinbeckPaperback · 07 Sep 2000 · €13.35
Our Price: €9.99Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, this novel tells the story of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel SparkPaperback · 24 Feb 2000 · €12.00
Jean Brodie is a teacher whose unconventional ideas put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, as she endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her "set".
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Howards End
E.M. ForsterPaperback · 27 Apr 2006 · €12.00
Unveils the English character, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken KeseyPaperback · 05 May 2005 · €13.35
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn WarrenPaperback · 30 Aug 2007 · €13.35
Set in the 1930s, this is a novel on American politics. It traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.
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East of Eden
John SteinbeckPaperback · 26 Apr 2001 · €13.35
Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this often sprawling and brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry between Cain and Abel.
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Women in Love
D. H. LawrencePaperback · 29 Mar 2007 · €13.35
Continuing where "The Rainbow" left off, this novel looks at the third generation of the Brangwens: Ursula, now a teacher, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from an art school. It focuses on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with Gerald, an industrialist, and later with a sculptor, Loerke.
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The Last King of Scotland
Giles FodenPaperback · 18 Jan 2007 · €9.99
Tells the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Idi Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos, he realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump?
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The Reader
Bernhard SchlinkPaperback · 01 Dec 2008 · €9.99
Film tie-in edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptionally powerful novel - 'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday]
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper LeePaperback · 05 Oct 1989 · €8.99
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, this work explores with humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties.
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Room at the Top
John BrainePaperback · 03 Aug 1989 · €9.99
The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high.
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Sophie's Choice
William StyronPaperback · 05 Feb 2004 · €12.00
Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, and her choice.
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The Godfather
Mario PuzoPaperback · 02 Jul 2009 · €9.99
Offers a portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. This book presents the story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its position at the core of the American Mafia.
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Silence of the Lambs
Thomas HarrisPaperback · 07 May 2009 · €9.99
An FBI trainee. A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes. And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim... FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr Hannibal Lecter, monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane, for insight into the deadly madman she must find.
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The Accidental Tourist
Anne TylerPaperback · 03 Jan 1998 · €9.99
How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Here, with the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
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The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset MaughamPaperback · 01 May 2008 · €9.99
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.
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L.A. Confidential
James EllroyPaperback · 03 Jan 1998 · €12.00
Los Angeles is a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L A P D detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest HemingwayPaperback · 27 May 1999 · €9.99
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas SwarupPaperback · 02 Jan 2009 · €9.99
Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. In the order of the questions on the show, this title tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers.
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Mystic River
Dennis LehanePaperback · 01 Sep 2006 · €9.99
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.
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The Cider House Rules
John IrvingPaperback · 01 Jul 1986 · €12.00
As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, Homer Wells strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory.