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(0)Hilary Mantel
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?If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?? England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith?s son from Putney emerges from the spring?s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
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Fourth Estate
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English
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Charles O?Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England?The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies?...
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel?s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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'Lastly,? Mr Maddox said, ?and to conclude our tour, we come to a very special part of the house.? He paused, to impress on her that she was going to have a treat. ?Perhaps, Miss Marcella, it may be that in your last situation, the house did not have a panic room? ??The School of English? invites us behind the stucco faȧde of a Notting Hill mansion where fear and cruelty grip a household.
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of ?good souls and sad cases?, children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage. Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and...
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic. It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and rather a lot of vengeance to be wreaked.
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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This novel recounts the events between the fall of the ancient regime and the peak of the terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists - Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals.