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Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld
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Year: 2021.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin
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Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis Adult.
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Year: 2021.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. 'An extraordinary and emotionally immersive novel - the music of Lisa Allen-Agostini?s writing voice is gloriously specific to Trinidad, yet this heart-wrenching story of a woman both liberated and in need of liberation has universal resonance.'-Margaret Busby. ?Strips you down to raw nerve to build you back up again. Allen-Agostini has an unswerving eye.?-Nalo Hopkinson ?You dip into the first page and don?t come up for breath until the last... thoroughly enjoyable.?-Kei Miller Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she?s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice, Alethea unravels memories repressed since childhood and begins to understand the p Adult.
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Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2021 From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger. In 1950, she embarks on her life's dream - to fly a Great Circle around the globe, pole to pole. But after a crash landing she finds herself stranded on the Antarctic ice without enough fuel. With one fearsome piece of water separating her from completion of the Circle, she writes one last entry in her logbook. She is ready for her final journey. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a brilliant, troubled Hollywood starlet is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot's life.
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Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate
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Hardback
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Zaffre
Resource type: Physical
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Hardback
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder
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Hardback
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
0571342353
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Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber
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Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & S.
Resource type: Physical
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Year: 2022.
Language: English
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Edition: Unabridged ed.
Publisher: Bolinda audio
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Note: Downloadable eAudiobook. Fiction. Duration: 10:05:09. Adult.
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Year: 1992
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Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Note: Booker Prize for Fiction winner 1992
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Year: 2021
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's
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Year: 2018.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing. This haunting, lyrical, powerful verse novel will blow you away. Young adult.