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Author: George OrwellCondition: 6/10Published Date: 1985
Dorothy's terror of sex has landed her on the shelf, one of England's regiment of old maids.
Author: Nicholas SparksCondition: 5/10Published Date: 2001
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles Feverently believes she will be his last. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice.
Author: Jill Paton WalshCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2001Pages: 331Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others - the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his partisans, and Count Michael Blansky, who is the castle's ancestral owner.
Author: Tahmima AnamCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007Pages: 275
"'For all that she had lost, and all that she wanted never to lose again' "As Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming; her children are almost grown-up; and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections.
Author: Kerry Jamieson Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 346 Charles Lindbergh thrilled the world by becoming the first lone pilot to cross the Atlantic. Soon after he landed, however, the flight log from the Spirit of St Louis was stolen from the aeroplane's cockpit. That much is fact...Pica Koll, the heroine of Kerry Jamieson's new novel, first encounters the charismatic young flier in Minnesota in 1923 - long before he becomes an international celebrity - and falls in love with him.
Author: D.H LawrenceCondition: 6/10Published Date: 1968
His surging story of a man's struggle for self-expression through art and human relationships.
Aaron is a respected member of a mining community, yet his success stifles him.Pinning his faith on his flute-playing, he breaks with his wife, moves south... and meets Rawdon Lilly. The extraordinary relationship between these two men- twin poles of Lawrence's own consciousness- is the central span of this important novel.
'Hornby's sharp observations and his quirky comedic instincts ensure that our journey is entertaining, funny - and occasionally affecting' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.
Author: Leo Tolstoy Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2000 Pages: 938
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer.
Author: Amy Bloom Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007 Pages: 240Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land.
Author: Sara Paretsky Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2008 Pages: 310V.I. Warshawski is confronted with the mysterious death of a young woman at a local hospital and the preliminary investigation produces horrifying results.
Author: Danielle SteelCondition: 6/10This books Published Date: 1999 Pages: 475India Taylor, with four wonderful children, believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she had married 17 years before. She had chosen his life instead of the career as a photojournalist she once had, and it was a choice she had never regretted - until now.
Author: Paul Theroux Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 438
Slade Steadman is the ultimate one-book wonder. His lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, he sets out for Ecuador"s jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer"s block.
Author: Peter Hoeg Condition: 7/10This books Published Date: 1995 Pages: 251A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.
Author: Anne TylerCondition: 4/10Published Date: 1988
Then he remembered that this wasn't Route One anymore, that they had drifted sideward or maybe even backward, and he had a dreamy, floating sensation.
Author: Charles McCarry Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007 Pages: 304
With Christopher's Ghosts, a novel that's cinematic scope and penetrating depth transcend the bounds of even the greats works in its genre, Charles McCarry has surpassed his own matchless reputation as an espionage novelist.
Author: Kate Atkinson Condition: 6/10This books Published Date: 2000 Pages: 402On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.
Author: Matthew Kneale Condition: 7/10Published Date: 2000 Pages: 462
It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden. But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Condition: 4/10
Published date: 1980
A master of both the comic and the serious, her richly ripe Indian comedy of manners
Author: Martina Cole Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007 Pages: 655
Gritty. Gripping. Unforgettable. Martina's back.Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out. Leaving behind his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to collect the debt. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, something changes in Danny and, overnight, he turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world.
Author: Ed McBain Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 259
Ed McBain's latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from class, a priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden, an old woman out walking her dog--these are the seemingly random targets shot twice in the face.
