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41) Actress
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This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O?Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London?s West End. Katherine?s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine?s past, or the world?s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother?s secrets, she acquires a few of her own....
42) Alias Grace
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Was Grace Marks a female fiend, a femme fatale, or a weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Atwood has created a potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
43) Assembly
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Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English...
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Eimear McBride's debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain-damaged. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and sensual urges of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read 'A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing' is to plunge inside its narrator's head,...
47) H is for hawk
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City Library - Non-fiction
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598.944
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'In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.' As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, 'The Goshawk', which describes...
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From the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples "Ferrante shows again how she is unbeatable."- The Times (UK) "Modern, urgent, truthful." - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Telegraph "Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions." - The Observer Giovanna?s pretty face has changed: it?s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful...
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City Library - Adult Fiction
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Denton Burn Library - Adult Fiction
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51) Unsettled ground
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When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining...