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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the orient expressa mysterious errand; a promise made to a dying friend; an unexpected proposal; a secret reaching back a lifetimesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor one group of passengers settling in to their seats and taking their first sips of champagne, the journey from london to venice is more than the trip of a lifetimeas the train sweeps on, revelations, confessions and assignations unfold against the most romantic and infamous setting in the world
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when samuel godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and liesassisted by their elusive governess, charlotte agnew, samuel begins to uncover slowly why marianne is so emotionally fragilehis two tutees are as different as chalk and cheese - the beautiful younger sister marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and juliana, oddly sensible and controlledthese are characters full of the same passions as our own today, while living in a less familiar and fascinating timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut his discoveries lead to revenge and betrayal - and lives all around are turned upside down as life and death combat each other for supremacylinda newbery has written a novel in diary style, combining different voices and a different century with her usual brilliance and ease
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the new novel from the bestselling author of the future homemakers of americawhat hope is there for poppy minkel? she has kinky hair, out-sticking ears, too yellow a neck and an appetite for fun, and her mother dora despairs of ever finding her a husband, despite the minkel's mustard fortune that seasons these dubious attractionswith never a moment of self-doubt, she invents her own extraordinary life in step with the unfolding centurywhen daddy disappears, poppy's tendency to the unusual is quietly allowed to flourishsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreworld war i opens new horizons
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when a stranger asks jo blackmore for a lift she says yes, then swiftly wishes she hadn'tthe stranger knows jo's name, she knows her husband max and she's got a glove belonging to jo's two year old daughter eliseno one believes that elise is in dangerbut jo knows there's only one way to keep her child safe - runsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat begins with a subtle threat swiftly turns into a nightmare as the police, social services and even jo's own husband turn against her
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square sarah grimké is the middle daughtershe also knows that she cannot accept another person as a presentand so, indeed, the trouble beginson sarah's eleventh birthday, hetty 'handful' grimké is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to sarah as a gifther mother says she's difficult and her father says she's remarkablesarah knows that what she does next will unleash a world of troublesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the american deep south in the nineteenth century, the invention of wings evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of otherwise respectable people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square following on from the huge success of the "44 scotland street" series, alexander mccall smith 'moved house' to london's pimlico and into his brand new daily novel, "corduroy mansions"although corduroy mansions is a nickname, it is now recognized by the post officesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe building itself - described in a guide to the architecture of the area as 'a building of no interest whatsoever' - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block - nobody is very surein fact, nothing of its history is known, although it does have some nice arts and craft featuresat least one character is on a voyage of self-discovery, which has taken him to cheltenham so farat the moment it is inhabited by an assortment of characters - including amongst others a literary agent, a wine merchant, one accountant, possibly the first ever nasty liberal democrat mp and his long-suffering pa, and a small dog in his prime
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square it is july and the isle of wight is buzzing with eccentric creative typestennyson recites poetry to furniture while his invalid wife hides bad reviews in teapots and buries them in the garden with a teaspoonwatts and his unlikely sixteen-year-old actress wife ellen terry; also the american father-and-daughter team of phrenologists, lorenzo and jessie fowleralso at freshwater bay are the creepy charles dodgson (aka lewis carroll) and julia margaret cameron, a photographer determine to capture an image of the bard in a suitably heroic posea carrollian comic novel about mid-victorian highbrows? about the ideals of beauty, art, friendship, gratitude and serious beards? the only wonder is that nobody thought of it beforesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinto this cauldron of unrequited love and egotism step the acclaimed painter g
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square ' a greener life' is packed with information on how to live a more natural and self-sufficient lifeclarissa and johnny explore the relevant issues-from growing your own vegetables to using alternative energies, from keeping livestock to mending your own socks-so that you have the knowledge to start living the good lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square every day a different bodya has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: never get too attachedavoid being noticedbecause finally a has found someone he wants to be with-day in, day out, day after dayevery day a different lifea is a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different lifefrom that moment, the rules by which a has been living no longer applysee oxfam website for delivery information read more there's never any warning about where it will be or who it will beit's all fine until the morning that a wakes up in the body of justin and meets justin's girlfriend, rhiannondo not interfereevery day in love with the same girl
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when marlena moves with her husband to the small town of orvieto to renovate a dilapidated medieval palazzo, she knows that the fastest way into the hearts and homes of her new neighbours is through their stomachsin her third memoir about life in italy, marlena de blasi returns with all of the sumptuous prose and delectable descriptions of the place she calls home, the food that she prepares, and best of all, the people she meetssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square tragedy came as if so often does: a teenage party, emotions running high, followed by a horrific car crashthis is a story of the importance of family, of the damage a lie can do, and of how nothing is ever what it seemsyears later, when summer's mother disappears one summer, she is left with her fatherand as he becomes more disorientated, he reveals small fragments of a secret that has been hidden since his youth, a secret that changes everythinga girl is left dead and a boy is forced to leave his home town, with a secret that he will carry with him forevershe finds refuge with her great-aunt, stellaobsessed with an accident from years ago, he slowly descends into mental illnesssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresummer supports her father as much as she can but eventually realises that she has to escapefeisty, fun-loving, and dying of cancer, stella holds parts of the family secretslowly, things fall into place for summer - or at least so she thinks
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, inspector john rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of childrenand then a fragment of scotland's criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murderonce more rebus's cup of trouble runneth over and the ghosts of past misdeeds return to haunt edinburgh's streetssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, rebus is faced with a dilemma - should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? as the locals begin a hate campaign rebus gets a call from the past: the son of a friend has gone missing and no one else will make time to ask the right questions
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the runaway sunday times noand then she sees something shockingnow rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afarif only rachel could be that happytheir life - as she sees it - is perfectshe knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardensshe's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the housesnow they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the trainnow everything's changedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more1 bestseller and thriller of the year, now a major film starring emily blunt rachel catches the same commuter train every morningit's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square you don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the gameand whatever the instructions of the service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch but not one of them joined the intelligence service to be a 'slow horse'his beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the netbanished to slough house from the ranks of achievers at regent's park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, jackson lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push papera boy is kidnapped and held hostagesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square it always starts with a small lieafter his friend suspects something strange going on at the satellite facility where they both work - and then goes missing - martin hepton doesn't believe the official line of "long-term sick leave"but neither of them can believe the puzzle they're piecing together - or just how shocking the secret is that everybody wants to stay hiddenrefusing to stop asking questions, he leaves his old life behind, aware that someone is shadowing his every movethat's how you stop noticing the bigger onessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut why? the only hope he has is his ex-girlfriend jill watson - the only journalist who will believe his story
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square "sir, the first ladythe scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens to derail everything he has worked forbut grace tucker has a mind of her own"Â president tucker is caught up in a media firestormescaping the city and her secret service agents, she is officially off the radarto win the vote, he needs the first lady to stand by his sidebut did the first lady run away? or is she in far greater danger than anyone could have imagined? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter years of compromise, unfulfilled promises, deception and betrayal, grace refuses to give in to her husband's demands
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square following the death of her last living relative, hetty deveraux leaves london and her strained relationship behind for muirlan, her ancestral home in scotland - now in ruins with only whispered rumours circulating among the local villagers and a handful of leads to guide her, hetty finds the power of the past is still affecting her present in startling wayssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas hetty dives headfirst into the repairs, she discovers a shocking secret protected by the house for a hundred years
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square london, : unassuming civil servant thomas foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to brusselsbut thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two british spies are following himas soon as he arrives, thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by anneke, a lovely flemish hostessfor fans of jonathan coe's classic comic bestsellers what a carve up! and the rotters' club, this hilarious new novel, which is set in the mad men period of the mid 50s, will also be loved by readers of nick hornby, william boyd and ian mcewansee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis task: to keep an eye on the britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the british presence at expo 58 - the biggest world's fair of the century
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square cyclocross is cycling's only purely winter discipline and demands a combination of athleticism, supreme technical skill for the off-road courses and ruthless tacticsit makes for a dramatic, exhilarating day outin "rainbows in the mud", paul maunder soaks up cyclocross' rich culture and history and mixes with the fans, the media, the riders and their familiessee oxfam website for delivery information read morefollowing the competitors as they fight their way through the season, he pains a picture of a cult sport on the brink of breaking into the mainstream and offers an insightful, moving and hugely entertaining depiction of an intense and dramatic world
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square selected as waterstones' thriller of the month, july chosen by the sunday times as one of 100 best crime novels since shortlisted for the cwa sapere historical daggershortlisted for the hwa gold crownlonglisted for the cwa gold dagger 'smoke and ashes is abir mukherjee's best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil - beautifully crafted' cbut wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium denwhen he then comes across a second body bearing the same injuries, wyndham is convinced that there's a deranged killer on the loosecaptain sam wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the calcutta police forceas wyndham and sergeant 'surrender-not' banerjee set out to solve the two murders, wyndham must tread carefully, keeping his personal demons secret, before someone else turns up deadhowever, revealing his presence in the opium den could cost him his career'it is the flamboyant evocation of calcutta that makes this such a mesmerising read' guardianpraise for the sam wyndham series:'a thought-provoking rollercoaster' ian rankin'confirms abir mukherjee as a rising star of historical crime fiction'the times'cracking  a journey into the dark underbelly of the british raj' daily expressif you enjoyed smoke and ashes, look out for the fourth sam wyndham mystery, death in the east in november see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square trauma surgeon carrie walker is taken aback when her uncle makes contact out of the bluesenior russian naval officer artyom semenov claims to be in possession of an explosive piece of information which he is offering to share with the westaware how vital it is that he reaches carrie before others do, rake knows he's pitted against a powerful and lethal enemybut can he be trusted?travelling to moscow undercover to meet with semenov, carrie finds herself stranded when the carefully-planned operation goes catastrophically awryin grave danger, there's only one person she can turn to for help: her former fiancé, major rake ozenna of the alaskan national guardsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut is it a rogue agent - or the russian state? as preparations gather pace for a high-profile nato exercise off the norwegian coast, rake must act fast if he is to prevent a global catastrophe
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in the bitter winter of , from an ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the star of the sea sets sail for new yorkamong them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt lord merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the atlantic in search of a new homeeach is connected more deeply than they can possibly knowin a spellbinding story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the further the ship sails towards the promised land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them goon board are hundreds of fleeing refugeessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe twenty-six day journey will see many lives end, others begin afreshbut a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square 495 see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a post-modern puzzle about self and identityit is remarkable how quickly the mood shifts from talk of big questions (religion, god, beauty, how mirrors lie) to the perfectly ordinary nuances between a couplewith penny, alexander is a gadfly, mucking her about, unable to see past her beauty; but with melanie, he has met his matchsee oxfam website for delivery information read morealexander embarks on a remarkable experiment, the likes of which no one has attempted before, maybe that's why there is a detective watching him
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square sometimes they talk all night longbut in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered beforevalentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurableeach has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayalsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the still darkness of their cell, molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical valentin listens
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square light novel version of the popular anime and manga seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square yukiteru amano is a 14-year-old, shy and daydreaming loner who observes life and jots down the events on his cell phoneyukiteru discovers he and eleven others are part of a survival game orchestrated by deusdeus transforms yukiteru's phone into a future diary, capable of predicting the future up to ninety dayshis only friends are deus ex machina, the god of space and time, and his assistant muru muruthe aim of this game is to eliminate the other diary holders, the winner succeeding deus as god and can prevent the apocalypsesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square former library book my sunshine away is an extraordinary debut novel from mbehind every white picket fence in suburbia lies a tangled web of darknessher fourteen year old neighbour has cherished a crush on lindy, the ultimate girl next door, since they were kidsafter her assault he becomes determined to solve the crime, investigating each suspect in the neighbourhood welcome to woodland hills, louisiana: a place of lush, sweltering summers, neighbourhood cookouts in every backyard and vats of chilled beer under the crepe myrtlesno one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caughtbut before this long, hot summer is out, it will become clear that the friendly community of woodland hills has much to hide my sunshine away is an extraordinary debut novel from a unique new literary voicefor every fan of the lovely bones and the virgin suicides comes a new and haunting tale of disturbance in suburbiasee oxfam website for delivery information read morewalsh, a dazzling new literary voiceone day lindy simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the pathchildhood in small-town america is filled with dreamy, technicolour days of innocence, but beneath the homely comforts and familiarity, this world is rotten to its very corein his zeal to solve the mystery, the teenage detective stumbles across a sinister world he doesn't recognise, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouementshe is raped just yards from her front doora terrible crime is just about to take place
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square after his editor is murdered in front of him, crime reporter doug mcgregor's word falls apartso he leaps at the chance to take some time out with his old friend on the isle of skyehe's in the eye of the storm - and this one could engulf them allsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut when another savage killing occurs, doug realises that the murders may be linked, and that going to skye was the best and worst move possibleon top of that, doug's "friendship" with his police contact, ds susie drummond, is in a weird place right nowas prime witness, he's not allowed to investigate the case, and he's left only with questions and a bloody memory seared in his mind
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a breathtaking story of bravery, friendship and fighting for what you believe in, umbrella mouse to the rescue is the eagerly anticipated sequel to anna fargher's bestselling and award-winning the umbrella mouse, based on the true stories of the heroic animals caught in the conflict of wwiiyoung mouse pip hanway is in france as she continues fighting for the french resistance group noah's ark: a secret gang of animals operating beneath the feet of human soldiers, whose aim is to liberate france and secure the victory of the alliesdetermined to reach her ancestral home of the umbrella museum in italy, pip hopes she can find long-lost family and a homebut as pip makes the perilous journey through occupied territory, she soon realizes that danger comes from all sides and that the enemy is all around, and she does everything she can to fight for her friendssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebeautifully illustrated by sam usher, pip will take you on an incredible journey through a war that reaches even the smallest of creatures
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