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The man in the red coat Julian Barnes
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Barnes, Julian

The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes

London : Vintage Books, 2020

Abstract: In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

Under currents Nora Roberts
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Roberts, Nora

Under currents / Nora Roberts

London : Piatkus, 2020

Abstract: From the outside, the house in Lakeview Terrace looks perfect and the Bigelows seem like the perfect family: the respected surgeon father, the glamorous, devoted mother and two beautiful children. A perfect family, in a perfect house living their perfect lives. But perfect surfaces can hide dark undercurrents and behind closed doors lies a very different story. Teenager Zane and his younger sister, Britt, are terrorised by their violent father and dysfunctional mother.Weiterlesen

Summer of '69 Elin Hilderbrand
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Hilderbrand, Elin

Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2020

Abstract: Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century . . . Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic island home, but this year it's not to be. Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests with her friend Mary Jo Kopechne. And Tiger, the only son, has just been deployed toWeiterlesen

Postscript Cecelia Ahern
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Ahern, Cecelia

Postscript / Cecelia Ahern

London : HarperCollins, 2020

Abstract: It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly begins a relationship with the club,Weiterlesen

The cofession Jessie Burton
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Burton, Jessie

The cofession / Jessie Burton

London : Picador, 2020

Abstract: One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, a city of strange dreams and swimming pools and late-night gatherings of glamorous people. But whilst Connie thrives on the heat and electricity of this new world where everyone is reaching for the stars and no one isWeiterlesen

The ratline Philippe Sands
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Sands, Philippe

The ratline : love, lies and justice on the trail of a nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands

London : Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2020

Abstract: As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wachter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps, assisted by hisWeiterlesen

The narrow road to the deep north Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
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Bashō

The narrow road to the deep north / Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa

London : Penguin, 2020

Penguin classics

Abstract: When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He writes of the seasons changing, the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These writings not only chronicle Basho's travels,Weiterlesen

The animals at lockwood mano Jane Healey
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Healey, Jane

The animals at lockwood mano / Jane Healey

London : Mantle, 2020

Abstract: Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realizes that she's taken on more than she'd bargained for. Protecting her charges from the irascible Lord Lockwood and resentful servants is work enough, but when some of the animals go missing, and worse, HettyWeiterlesen

The School of Life Alain de Botton and The School of Life
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Botton, Alain <de>

The School of Life : an emotional education / Alain de Botton and The School of Life

London : Penguin, 2020

Abstract: This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity.

Miss Austen Gill Hornby
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Hornby, Gill

Miss Austen / Gill Hornby

London : Arrow books, 2020

Abstract: Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and herWeiterlesen

The Europeans Orlando Figes
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Figes, Orlando

The Europeans / Orlando Figes

London : Penguin, 2020

Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books Hilary Mantel
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Mantel, Hilary

Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / Hilary Mantel

London : 4th Estate, 2020

Abstract: In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 198Weiterlesen

The poison squad Deborah Blum
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Blum, Deborah

The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the tweentieth century / Deborah Blum

London : Penguin books, 2020

Abstract: By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety,Weiterlesen

Girl, woman, other Bernadine Evaristo
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Evaristo, Bernardine

Girl, woman, other / Bernadine Evaristo

London : Penguin books, 2020

Abstract: From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .

The liberation of Brigid Dunne Patricia Scanlan
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Scanlan Patricia

The liberation of Brigid Dunne : a novel / Patricia Scanlan

New York : Atria, 2020

Abstract: Marie-Claire has just made the shocking discovery that her boyfriend (and business partner) is cheating on her. Reeling, she leaves her apartment in Toronto to travel home to Ireland, hoping the comfort of her family and a few familiar faces will ground her. She arrives just in time to celebrate her beloved great-aunt Reverend Mother Brigid's retirement and eightieth birthday. It will be a long-awaited and touching reunion for three generations of her family, bringing herWeiterlesen

The giver of stars Jojo Moyes
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Moyes, Jojo

The giver of stars / Jojo Moyes

London : Penguin, 2020

Abstract: 'Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.' England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife and is dominated by hisWeiterlesen

Ghosts Dolly Alderton
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Alderton, Dolly

Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton

London : Fig tree, 2020

Abstract: Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing andWeiterlesen

Redhead by the side of the road Anne Tyler
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Tyler, Anne

Redhead by the side of the road : a novel / Anne Tyler

New York : Knopf, 2020

Abstract: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the waysWeiterlesen

Machines like me Ian McEwan
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McEwan, Ian

Machines like me / Ian McEwan

London : Vintage Books, 2020

Abstract: Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profoundWeiterlesen

Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
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Christie, Agatha

Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie

London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2020

Abstract: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…