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Half a life
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V. S. Naipaul |
One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, pu… |
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Reel murder
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Marian Babson |
When Trixie Dolan accompanies her friend and rival Evangeline Sinclair to London, she's hoping they'll have a good time. Then a dead body turns up, followed by another one, and the police are suspect… |
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Paddington at the Tower
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R. W. Alley,Michael Bond |
When Paddington Bear visits the Tower of London, his suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches causes unexpected trouble. |
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Phineas Redux
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* |
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The way we live now
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Anthony Trollope |
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition):
*“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… |
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The Eustace diamonds
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 3: *The Eustace Diamonds* |
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Perlman's ordeal
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Brooks Hansen |
Als een in Londen werkende Oostenrijkse arts in 1906 een patiënte met een persoonlijkheidsstoornis te behandelen krijgt, raakt hij met een spiritiste verwikkeld in een strijd om de geest van het kind. |
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Hocus pocus
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Paul Kieve |
The greatest magicians in history step out of posters of themselves to teach a young Englishman, just starting his career, some of their secrets. Includes facts about the magicians, instructions for … |
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One across, two down
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Ruth Rendell |
Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. Fo… |
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The killing doll
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Ruth Rendell |
An intense and disturbing novel from the UK's most loved crime writerThe winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. For t… |
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Double trouble squared
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Kathryn Lasky |
July and Liberty Starbuck, twins, and their family are busy exploring the streets of London where their father has accepted a new job. A voice that only the twins can hear needs their help. In their … |
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The Keys to the Street
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Ruth Rendell |
Set in and around London's Regents Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, this newest novel by the Edgar and Gold Dagger-winning author of Cro… |
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Children of the Ghetto
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Israel Zangwill |
Joodse inwoners van de Londense wijk Whitechapel hebben moeite hun traditionele denkbeelden te verenigen met wat er uit de moderne samenleving op ze afkomt. |
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The devil's company
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David Liss |
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi… |
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A landing on the sun
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Michael Frayn |
Unusual, captivating. A few books I speed read sometimes but not this one. Devoured every single word. Winner of Sunday Express Book of the Year 1991 |
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Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding #1)
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Bruce Alexander |
Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old orphaned printer's apprentice Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in the legendary Sir John Fielding. Fielding, founder of the Bow Street Run… |
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women
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Laurie R. King |
**A Monstrous Regiment of Women**
(Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #2)
by Laurie R. King
Martina Petranović (Translator)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a w… |
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Emma's secret
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Barbara Taylor Bradford |
The book the fans have been waiting for: the much-anticipated sequel to the phenomenally successful A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE.The legendary Emma Harte, the heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns in this… |
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Dead of winter
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Rennie Airth,Rennie Airth |
The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killerOn a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The … |
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A royal pain
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Rhys Bowen |
Another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers” (Jacqueline Winspear). The Queen of England has concocted a pla… |
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