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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, HettyLeggi tutto

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.

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 isLeggi tutto

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 hisLeggi tutto

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…

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 herLeggi tutto

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 . . .

So long, my queen Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker
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Harrot, Nygel G.

So long, my queen : 4 Kurzgeschichten / Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker

München : Circon, 2020

Compact Sprachwelten : Englisch - Compact Sprachwelten 4 Kurzgeschichten

Abstract: Ein pensionierter Rosenzüchter fürchtet aufgrund neuer Nachbarn um sein grünes Paradies. Ein skrupelloser Immobilienmakler rechnet bei seinem neuesten Bauvorhaben nicht mit dem Widerstand einer rüstigen alten Frau und rege Vorbereitungen laufen in einem viktorianischen Herrenhaus, denn königlicher Besuch hat sich angemeldet …

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 profoundLeggi tutto

Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah

London : Bloomsbury, 2020

Abstract: While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeksLeggi tutto

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,Leggi tutto

Trace elements Donna Leon
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Leon, Donna

Trace elements / Donna Leon

London : William Heinemann, 2020

Abstract: When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. 'They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no', Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into whatLeggi tutto

Threads of life Clare Hunter
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Hunter, Clare

Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle / Clare Hunter

London : Sceptre, 2020

Abstract: From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who haveLeggi tutto

Mr. Wilder & me Jonathan Coe
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Coe, Jonathan

Mr. Wilder & me / Jonathan Coe

London : Penguin, 2020

Abstract: In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation thatLeggi tutto

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,Leggi tutto

The guardians John Grisham
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Grisham, John

The guardians / John Grisham

London : Hodder, 2020

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.

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 198Leggi tutto

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 andLeggi tutto

The Night manager John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin
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Le Carré, John

The Night manager / John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin

New ed.

Harlow : Pearson Education, 2020

Penguin readers. Level 5

Abstract: Jonathan Pine is the Night Manager of a hotel in Egypt. When he is shown some secret information, he passes it to a man in the British government. But things go wrong and the woman he loves dies. Pine is very angry and agrees to work with others to catch Richard Roper - the "worst man in the world".