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Possession Possession A. S. Byatt Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the… OL115647W
Flaubert's Parrot Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes An intricate and delightful novel' Graham GreeneFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life a… OL14971509W
One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next, #6) Jasper Fforde It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Ha… OL15672846W
The Brontë project The Brontë project Jennifer Vandever A novel about reconciling the mythology of romance with the reality of modern love.Young scholar Sara Frost's unsuccessful search for the lost love letters of Charlotte Bronte hasn't won her any favo… OL15835056W
Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7) Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7) Jasper Fforde The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into semiretirement following an assassination attempt. When Thursday's former SpecOps division is reinstated, she assumes … OL16646161W
Dublinesque Dublinesque Enrique Vila-Matas Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he has published many of his generation's most important authors. But he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety - about the … OL24261926W
Lord Byron's Novel Lord Byron's Novel John Crowley One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotat… OL482573W