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Coming Through Depression
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The Paris Wife
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Before I Go to Sleep
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Flourishing
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The Promise
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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The Descendants
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Mornings in Jenin
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Run Fat Bitch Run
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Recommended Titles - October 2008
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Molly Fox's Birthday
Deirdre MaddenPaperback · 23 Apr 2009 · €10.00
Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her own life, Molly's, and that of their mutual friend Andrew, whom she has known since university.
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The Face of Death
Cody McFadyenPaperback · 01 May 2008 · €12.00
Agent Barrett and her team return in the follow up to SHADOW MAN, the most shockingly brilliant debut thriller of 2006
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Bright Shiny Morning
James FreyPaperback · 17 Jan 2009 · €12.00
A bold and dazzling new story from the controversial creator of A Million Little Pieces
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The Bolter
Frances OsbornePaperback · 29 Dec 2008 · €12.00
* 'This is a truly astonishing book. Frances Osborne has not just brought to life a dizzyingly rich and scandalous slice of social history, she has produced a tragic and deeply moving tale as well. It is far more gripping than any novel I have read for years' Antony Beevor
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A Fraction of the Whole
Steve ToltzPaperback · 14 May 2009 · €12.00
From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent.
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The Scandal of the Season
Sophie GeePaperback · 07 Aug 2008 · €10.00
Tells the story of the seduction of the beautiful, clever Arabella Fermor by the charming, enigmatic nobleman Robert Petre, seventh Baron of Ingatestone. Arabella is in need of rich husband, but knows that girls have been ruined by risking an affair like the one she contemplates.
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Miss Chopsticks
XinranPaperback · 03 Jul 2008 · €12.00
The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes.
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Man in the Dark
Paul AusterPaperback · 04 Jun 2009 · €10.00
August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night.
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This Thing of Darkness
Harry ThompsonPaperback · 16 Jan 2006 · €12.00
Packed full of action, vivid characters, ideas and explorations of science and religion, this brilliant historical novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005
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Will You be There?
Guillaume MussoPaperback · 04 Sep 2008 · €10.00
Intelligence, heart and a great story: a million copies have been sold in Europe and anyone who loved Back to the Future or The Time Traveller's Wife will love this.
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Song Yet Sung
James McBridePaperback · 14 May 2009 · €10.00
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Water, this is a powerful page-turning novel of a runaway slave.
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When You are Engulfed in Flames
David SedarisPaperback · 07 May 2009 · €12.00
* A brilliant new collection of stories from the number 1 bestselling writer named by TIME magazine as America's Favorite Humorist
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Real World
Natsuo KirinoPaperback · 04 Sep 2008 · €10.00
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four girls drift through tedious summer school classes. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son. They become drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki MurakamiPaperback · 02 Apr 2009 · €10.00
Our Price: €8.99A memoir that covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.
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The Legend of Colton H Bryant
Alexandra FullerPaperback · 06 Apr 2009 · €10.00
From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oilfields and plains of Wyoming
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The Gargoyle
Andrew DavidsonPaperback · 01 Jan 2009 · €10.00
A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.
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Netherland
Joseph O NeillPaperback · 05 Jan 2009 · €10.00
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.
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The Wild Places
Robert MacfarlanePaperback · 07 Jul 2008 · €13.35
Explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
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Not Quite World's End
John SimpsonPaperback · 03 Oct 2008 · €12.00
A new volume of memoir and traveller's tales from John Simpson, in the vein of his bestselling A Mad World, My Masters
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The Believers
Zoe HellerPaperback · 30 Apr 2009 · €12.00
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas.
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The Grass Arena
John HealyPaperback · 31 Jul 2008 · €13.35
John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence and soon finds himself overwhelmed by alcoholism. He ends up in the grass arena: the parks and streets of the inner city, where beggars, thieves, prostitutes and killers fight for survival and each day brings the question of where to find the next drink.
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The Given Day
Dennis LehanePaperback · 05 Dec 2009 · €10.00
Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for revolutionaries and anarchists who, in the aftermath of World War One, are pledged to overthrow the city's ruling classes. But Danny soon finds his ideals compromised as his family starts to question where his loyalties really lie.
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When Will There be Good News?
Kate AtkinsonPaperback · 02 Jan 2009 · €10.00
In Edinburgh, 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a GP. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.
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Bad Day in Blackrock
Kevin PowerPaperback · 16 Jul 2010 · €10.00
On a late August night, a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub and celebration turns to devastation. This book looks at the reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected.
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The Rabbi's Daughter
Reva MannPaperback · 03 Apr 2008 · €10.00
'Hard to put down - it's so personal and raw.' Sunday Times Magazine
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Fire in the Blood
Irene NemirovskyPaperback · 02 Oct 2008 · €10.00
Set in a small village, an old man looks back on a chequered life with secret regrets, concealing a truth he will not reveal until the end. This title tells a story about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions, and the regrets of old age.
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After River
Donna MilnerPaperback · 21 Aug 2008 · €10.00
After River is an unputdownable read; not just a love story, but a poignant and deeply moving account of how war and conflict can devastate lives across generations.
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Home
Marilynne RobinsonPaperback · 16 Apr 2009 · €10.00
* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead
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The Likeness
Tana FrenchPaperback · 07 May 2009 · €10.00
Tana French follows her stunning accomplished debut, IN THE WOODS, with an equally compelling psychological mystery that confirms her place as one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.
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Open-handed
Chris BinchyPaperback · 04 Jun 2009 · €10.00
Presents a story of a group of characters who are brought together by circumstance, ambition and need. This book shows how they become entangled with one another in a web of politics, property, sex and violence.
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The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar HemonPaperback · 07 Aug 2009 · €10.00
The unprovoked murder of a Russian Jewish immigrant ignites a dazzling novel of flight, emigration and the meaning of home
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