Recommended Titles - September 2011

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  The Language of Flowers
  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Paperback · 18 Aug 2011 · €17.35
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  The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude.

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  The Sense of an Ending
  Julian Barnes

  Hardback · 04 Aug 2011 · €17.35
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  Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.

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  The Invisible Ones
  Stef Penney

  Paperback · 25 Aug 2011 · €17.35
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  Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, Stef Penney's eagerly awaited second novel is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.

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  The Imperfectionists
  Tom Rachman

  Paperback · 19 Mar 2011 · €10.00
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  The charming and enthralling story of an idiosyncratic English-language newspaper in Rome and the lives of its staffers as the paper fights for survival in the internet age.

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  Obedience
  Jacqueline Yallop

  Paperback · 01 Aug 2011 · €14.70

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  In a convent in rural France, three ageing nuns remain. Cloistered within her failing faith and her failing body, Sister Bernard navigates each day by the simple markers domesticity; but when the convent is threatened with closure the soft threads of piety and daily existence unravel.

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  Say Her Name
  Francisco Goldman

  Paperback · 01 Apr 2011 · €17.35

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  In the summer of 2007, Francisco Goldman's young wife Aura died suddenly on a beach in Mexico. Say Her Name is the novel born out of this personal tragedy ...

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  The Small Hand
  Susan Hill

  Paperback · 07 Jul 2011 · €10.00
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  Late one summers evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own.

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  Open
  Andre Agassi

  Paperback · 10 Aug 2010 · €12.00
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  He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court -- but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game.