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The Confessions Collection

Timothy Lea

The Confessions Collection

The complete Timothy Lea and Rosie Dixon confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.Save over £30 on the individual purchase RRPContains:Timothy Lea’s Complete ConfessionsCONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANERCONFESSIONS OF A DRIVING INSTRUCTORCONFESSIONS FROM A HOLIDAY CAMPCONFESSIONS FROM A HOTELCONFESSIONS OF A TRAVELLING SALESMANCONFESSIONS OF A FILM EXTRACONFESSIONS FROM THE CLINKCONFESSIONS FROM A HEALTH FARMCONFESSIONS...

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Timothy Lea

L’ira Dei Vilipesi

Guido Pagliarino

L’ira Dei Vilipesi

26 settembre 1943, Napoli è sul punto di ribellarsi ai tedeschi occupanti. Rosa, prostituta e borsanerista già confidente della polizia politica fascista, muore per cause violente. Gennaro, suo presunto assassino, è fermato e interrogato inutilmente da un ancor inesperto vice commissario, Vittorio. Poco dopo s'accende l’insurrezione che passerà alla storia come Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli. Vi aderiscono il vice commissario e, stranamente liberato dal questore in persona, il presunto assassino...

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Guido Pagliarino

Every Home Needs A Balcony

Rina Frank

Every Home Needs A Balcony

This international bestseller tells the bittersweet story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman's life, from the poverty of her youth, to the intense love and painful losses of her adult years.Braiding together the past and present, Every Home Needs a Balcony relays the life story of a young Jewish girl, the child of Romanian immigrants, who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel.Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and her parents...

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Rina Frank

A Mother’s Spirit

Anne Bennett

A Mother’s Spirit

From rural rags to brief riches and back to ruin, this is a moving saga of hard work, bad luck and finally hope for a family’s future.Gloria Sullivan can’t quite believe where she has ended up.Growing up with no money worries, she fell head over heels in love with the handsome, hardworking Irishman employed by her father. They were the golden couple – until the Wall Street crash, when everything was lost. Finally she agreed to start again in London with husband Joe and their small son.World War...

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Anne Bennett

Enchanter: Book Two of the Axis Tri...

Sara Douglass

Enchanter: Book Two of the Axis Trilogy

Epic fantasy in the tradition of Trudi Canavan, Fiona McIntosh and Robert Jordan. Sara Douglass returns us to a world in the grip of prophecy and war …‘Welcome Axis, into the House of SunSoar and into my heart… Sing well and fly high and may nothing and no-one tear your feet from the path of the Star Dance again.’Axis has fled to Talon Spike, the home of the Icarii, where he must learn to wield his Enchanter powers to fulfil the Prophecy.Somehow he must lead the Icarii and the Avar back into...

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Sara Douglass

Bed of Roses

Daisy Waugh

Bed of Roses

A fun, feelgood romp of country life from bestselling author Daisy WaughWhen the restless, rootless Fanny Flynn lands the job as Head Teacher of Fiddleford Village Primary School it feels more like a last resort than another of her new beginnings.She's a great teacher and all the villagers claim to be behind her. But are they really? In no time she's locked in a feud with the gruesome Mrs Guppy, stalked by the pushy newcomers from the Old Rectory, plotted against by Kitty, the predatory...

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Daisy Waugh

A Good Land

Nada Jarrar Awar

A Good Land

Small truths, white lies; the many shades of friendship, all impacted by the harsh legacy of war…The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever- changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there. The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after another war, spinning her tales of freedom fighters, itinerant peoples, despair and courage. And Lebanese born and bred Layla, only recently returned from...

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Nada Jarrar Awar

Five Miles from Outer Hope

Nicola Barker

Five Miles from Outer Hope

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers.It's the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive girl giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon, with the rest of her crazy family members. There's nothing to do but paint Margaret Thatcher mugs to supplement the meagre family income, wait for Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' to come out and dream of literary...

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Nicola Barker

Double Fault

Lionel Shriver

Double Fault

‘When feminism has become the politics that dare not speak its name, it is refreshing to find an author who will bring such renewed vigour to the gender wars’ Guardian“Love me, love my game,” says professional tennis player Willy Novinsky at twenty-three. Tennis has been Willy’s one love, until she meets the uncannily confident Eric Oberdorf. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit.They marry. But their life together soon grows poisoned by...

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Lionel Shriver

Moonglow

Michael Chabon

Moonglow

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe keeping of secrets and the telling of lies; sex and desire and ordinary love; existential doubt and model rocketry – all feature in the new novel from the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.‘The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother’s deck of cards, was made out of stories, and it was always on the verge of collapse.’Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by...

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Michael Chabon

Dreams of Water

Nada Jarrar Awar

Dreams of Water

Set during the 1980s civil war in Lebanon, ‘Dreams of Water’ is complusively readable, deceptively simple and overwhelmingly moving.'If you could tell me just one thing about yourself, what would it be?'She begins, 'I would say that I once lost a brother.'As a young man disappears, his family is left wondering, hoping, fearing for what may have become of him. It is only through his loss that they begin to truly understand the deep bond of love that ties their family together.Aneesa, his sister,...

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Nada Jarrar Awar

Forget-Me-Not Child

Anne Bennett

Forget-Me-Not Child

A story of struggle and hardship and one girl’s battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man’s Child.Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homeland. But the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the family.When Angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are dashed when her husband is called up to fight in the...

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Anne Bennett

All My Sins Remembered

Rosie Thomas

All My Sins Remembered

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War – united against the world.Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, which moved him to work as a doctor in the London slums; Clio and Grace, flappers flitting through bohemian Fitzrovia to emerge as literary lion and pioneering...

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Rosie Thomas

Czerń i purpura

Wojciech Dutka

Czerń i purpura

Opowieść oparta na faktach. Miłość młodego esesmana do żydowskiej więźniarki. I przerażające piekło Auschwitz. Słowacja, 1939. Wywodząca się z szanowanej żydowskiej rodziny prawniczej, niezwykle uzdolniona muzycznie Milena Zinger właśnie zostaje studentką konserwatorium. Jej beztroskie życie przerywa wybuch II wojny światowej. Zingerowie momentalnie stają się obywatelami drugiej kategorii, którzy każdego dnia muszą walczyć o przetrwanie. Austria, 1939. Franz Weimert ulega wpływom...

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Wojciech Dutka

Innocence

Julian Barnes

Innocence

Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very...

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Julian Barnes

Quattro Destini

Powell Michael

Quattro Destini

Quattro giovani di quattro nazionalità si incontrano in Germania prima della guerra. Il loro destino è di morire contemporaneamente in guerra in un isola dell'Egeo. l libro racconta le vite di quattro giovani uomini, tutti nati nel 1920, Godfrey (inglese), Rolf (tedesco), Marco (italiano) e Yiannis (greco) e delle loro famiglie. Marco eYiannis provengono dalla piccola isola di Leros, all'epoca parte delle isole del Dodecanneso governate dall'Italia. Si incontrano tutti nel 1936 al raduno della...

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Powell Michael

Cry Heaven, Cry Hell

Howard Gordon

Cry Heaven, Cry Hell

In Cry Heaven, Cry Hell, the author tries to open our eyes to show that even with good intentions roads can be paved to Hell. The story follows three men who lived evil ways and then repented. Two of the men die, but one remains to either be held accountable for what they all did or to have their repentant behavior be figured into the yardstick of their collective judgment. The three men are: 1) An Irishman who wipes out an entire family and flees Ireland, 2) A descendant of an Amer-Indian ally...

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Howard Gordon

Córka nazisty

Max Czornyj

Córka nazisty

CÓRKA NAZISTY to przejmująca powieść o przeszłości, która nie pozwala o sobie zapomnieć. O strasznych czasach II wojny światowej i o miłości na przekór wszystkiemu. O dzieciach, które nie powinny odpowiadać za winy swoich rodziców. I o odkupieniu, które przynosi dopiero zmierzenie się z prawdą. Czasem, by na nowo odnaleźć spokój i miłość, trzeba przejść przez piekło. Gen zła. Czy coś takiego w ogóle istnieje? Alicja Nowińska uśmiecha się do mnie. Unosi na powitanie dłoń i się wyprostowuje....

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Max Czornyj

Brother's Keeper

Joaquin De Torres

Brother's Keeper

Jason Li is seconds away from pulling the trigger to end his life. <br><br>Difficult to believe considering three years ago he was on the fast track to becoming a Navy fighter pilot, following in the footsteps of his older brother and modern combat ace, Lt. Jordan Li. But now Jordan is dead; killed in what the Navy claims was a "freak accident" over the Pacific Ocean. <br><br>Jason never got over the death of his brother-his mentor, his hero. Now...

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Joaquin De Torres

Arizona Moon

J.M. Graham

Arizona Moon

Arizona Moon describes a fictional no-name operation in Vietnam’s infamous Arizona Territory and Golf’s 1st platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines operating west of the Tu Bon River in Quang Nam Province. The story centers on a squad leader, Corporal Raymond Strader, and a Apache Indian, L/Cpl Noche Gonshayee. Strader has only three days until his thirteen month tour of duty ends, and Gonshayee, whose tribal name is Moon”, considers all anglos potential...

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J.M. Graham

Run Silent, Run Deep

Edward L. Beach

Run Silent, Run Deep

This is a story of the silent servicethe submarine crews which destroyed the Japanese merchant marine. A narrative taut with drama, told with the intimacy of a confession, it deals with two strong-headed men: their loves, their jealousies, and their destinies in the lonely and desperate struggle between the hunter and the hunted. Few war novels will rival Run Silent, Run Deep in the naked realism of its action. None will surpass its rising excitement and brilliant descriptions of men...

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Edward L. Beach

Η Μοίρα Των Τεσσάρων

Powell Michael

Η Μοίρα Των Τεσσάρων

Τέσσερις νέοι από τέσσερις εθνικότητες συναντιούνται στην προπολεμική Γερμανία. Η μοίρα τους είναι να χαθούν ταυτόχρονα στον πόλεμο, σε ένα νησί του Αιγαίου. Το βιβλίο ακολουθεί τις ζωές τεσσάρων νεαρών ανδρών, του Γκόντφρεϊ του Ρολφ, του Μάρκο και του Γιάννη- όλοι τους γεννημένοι το 1920 – και των οικογενειών τους. Ο Μάρκο και ο Γιάννης κατάγονταιι από το μικρό νησί της Λέρου, που τότε ήταν μέρος της ιταλοκρατούμενης Δωδεκανήσου. Όλοι συναντιούνται το 1936 στη συγκέντρωση νέων του Νούρεμπουργκ,...

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Powell Michael

A Good Man

Cynthia Holz

A Good Man

When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man , critically acclaimed novelist Cynthia Holz examines Izzy’s complex lifelong friendship with Phil Lewis. Izzy escapes from Nazi Germany as a young man, leaving behind his family, who later perish in the Holocaust; Phil, a war hero, stays and fights with the partisans and...

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Cynthia Holz

The Deserter

Douglas LePan

The Deserter

A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan. Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds – the ordered but empty everyday life of “schedules and obligations,” and the hellish chaos of the city’s underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives...

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Douglas LePan

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