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The Day of the Scorpion
The arrest by British police of ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quite India movement, signifies a further deterioration in Anglo-Indian relations. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the immediate social and poli...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (PB)
John Romer & Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
"The Book of the Dead" is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often le...
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite
The wondrous Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is a luminous tale--heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad....
The Stern Chase (#9 Brotherband)
Pirates have stolen the Skandians' best ship and it's up to Hal and the Heron brotherband to find them in the unputdownable ninth adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.Outnumbered but determined, the Herons are ready for action. The scene is set for an epic battle at sea . . . For years now...
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church....
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you'll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories taking center stage. A...
The Last Devil To Die (#4 The Thursday Murder Club)
The fourth book in the record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British national treasure Richard Osman. Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into ac...
I'd Rather Not
"I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons … " Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and t...
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f...
Caught in the Middle (#2 Mackenzie Arnold)
Meet Matildas star goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold as a kid and follow her football and friendship adventures. Mackenzie Arnold loves playing football with the Seaport Strikers. She's now the team's goalkeeper and is starting to like it. But when a classmate bets Macca that she can't keep a clean sheet agai...
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