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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptional i envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sundaywith this historic win for 'bring up the bodies', hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizes (her first was for 'wolf hall' in )but neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careeran astounding literary accomplishment, 'bring up the bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the year shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionali envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sunday with this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizesbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careeran astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam shop evesham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionali envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' independent on sundaywith this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizesbut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final daysby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifecromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careeran astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam shop dumfries memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of manchester united and ireland, roy keane - co-written in a unique collaboration with man booker prize-winner roddy doylehis status as one of football's greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? how did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former manchester united and ireland leader and champion, reinventing himself as a manager and then a broadcaster, and cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? in a stunning collaboration with booker prize-winning author roddy doyle, the second half blends anecdote and reflection in roy keane's inimitable voicein an eighteen-year playing career for cobh ramblers, nottingham forest (under brian clough), manchester united (under sir alex ferguson) and celtic, roy keane dominated every midfield he led to glorythe result is an unforgettable personal odyssey which fearlessly challenges the meaning of successsince retiring as a player, keane has managed sunderland and ipswich and has become a highly respected television punditas part of a tiny elite of football players, roy keane has had a life like no othersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaggressive and highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of manchester united from until his departure inplaying at an international level for nearly all his career, he represented the republic of ireland for over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach mick mccarthy resulted in keane's walk-out from the world cup
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booker t & the mg's greatest hits stax sts usa nice printed motown inner sleeve vinyl excellent+ sleeve vg+ (see picture) 4are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiand the mg's soul limbo stax sts usa vinyl excellent, towards nm sleeve vg+ 3related) 4 wonderful records in excellent conditionand the mg's and bar-kays (booker tbar-kays soul finger volt s 417 (stax label) germany atco labels vinyl excellent sleeve excellent - 2and the mg's pickwick records shm uk this is a reissue from the album 'green onions' vinyl nm (former library record, but only given out once and probably never played) sleeve vg+ read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeoriginal 1st pressings(except for one) 1catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prizeshortlisted for the the orange prizeshortlisted for the costa novel award dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' daily mail'our most brilliant english writer'guardianengland, the scromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and eventshenry viii is on the throne, but has no heirinto this atmosphere of distrust and need comes thomas cromwell, first as wolsey's clerk, and later his successorsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us tudor england as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and couragecardinal wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grantruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himselfhis reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous ragesfrom one of our finest living writers, wolf hall is that very rare thing: a truly great english novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the mckitterick prizeshortlisted for the east midlands book awardshortlisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for new writer of the year in the specsavers national book awardsobserver book of the year the lighthouse begins on a north sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to germany for a restorative walking holidayat the end of the week, futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absencehe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fatherhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundspending his first night in hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barmanbut the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to findas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhine
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Oxfam shop evesham from the winner of the man booker prize once upon a time that was called , before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named william buelow gould, a convict in van dieman's land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safeonce upon a time, miraculous things happenedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresilly billy gould, invader of australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the british empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the man booker prize'written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' sunday timesstill in her teenage years, nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man'a brilliant evocation of sensuality' daily telegraph'a novel that will last' guardian'highly evolved and accomplished' observer see oxfam website for delivery information read morenazneen knows not a word of english, and is forced to depend on her husbandconfined in her tiny flat, nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical karim steps unexpectedly into her lifeon a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces nazneen finally to take control of her fateaway from her bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in london's east end
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Oxfam shop colne road longlisted for the man booker prize and the baileys women's prize for fiction home is a foreign country: they do things differently thereand as a semi-hungarian londoner, who is she? in the meantime, her mother laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her lifein a tiny flat in west london, sixteen-year-old marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, laura, and three ancient hungarian relativesbut the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsidershe isn't noticing that, at combe abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrongsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreimprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unenglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escapeat combe abbey, a traditional english public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistakeshe is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be
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Oxfam shop dumfries ***winner of the man booker prize *** forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the line, and the rest of humanity, who were nothailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truthin the despair of a japanese pow camp on the burma death railway, surgeon dorrigo evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earliersee oxfam website for delivery information read morestruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever
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All of them will meet the same manoxfam bookshop cheltenham a dark psychological thriller with a killer twist, that has topped the bestseller charts in its native israel*translated by man booker winner jessica cohen*three tells the stories of three women: orna, a divorced single-mother looking for a new relationship; emilia, a latvian immigrant on a spiritual search; and ella, married and mother of three, returning to university to write her thesisit is a declaration of war against the normalisation of death and violenceslowly but surely, you see the danger each woman walks intowhat you won't see is the trap being laid - until it snaps shuthis name is gilhe won't tell them the whole truth about himself - but they don't tell him everything eithersee oxfam website for delivery information read moretense, twisted and surprising, three is a daring new form of psychological thriller
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But something even darker is at the heart of walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell itoxfam bookshop hertford winner of the international impac dublin literary awardwinner of the james tait black prizeshortlisted for the man booker prizeshortlisted for the goldsmiths prizeshortlisted for the walter scott prize for historical fictionas late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threatsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see walter thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft
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Oxfam shop clitheroe a moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, man booker shortlisted author karen joy fowlersix people - five women and a man - meet once a month in california's central valley to discuss jane austen's novels'if i could eat this novel, i would' alice sebold, author of the lovely bones'a thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' entertainment weekly'we defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' mail on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationshipsover the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of jane austen a couple of them even fall in love
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The long-awaited memoir of booker tnot long after, he would form the genre-defining group booker twhile he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous stax studios-all while still in high schooljones's earliest years in segregated memphis, music was the driving force in his lifetime is tight is the deeply moving account of how jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist south with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical meccajones, leader of the famed stax records house band, architect of the memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in musicnearly five decades later, jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life storysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand the mgs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in rolling stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including otis redding, wilson pickett, and sam & dave
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the baileys women's prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prizewinner of the irish novel of the year hanna, dan, constance and emmet return to the west coast of ireland for a final family christmas in the home their mother is about to sell**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ***longlisted for the man booker prize ******shortlisted for the costa novel award ***'an engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' roddy doylefarouk's country has been torn apart by warfrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homejohn's past torments him as he nears his endlampy's heart has been laid waste by chloesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a major film starring brie larson, winner of the academy award for best actress and the best actress baftashortlisted for the man booker prize, the orange prize and a richard and judy book club selectionhe lives with his mathey live in a single, locked roomroom by emma donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedomjack and ma are prisonersthey don't have the keysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Winner of the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize 'a rare and dazzling feat of art' george saunders, author of lincoln in the bardo'mcgregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation' sarah hall, author of the wolf border'reservoir 13 is quite extraordinary - the way it's structured, the way it rolls, the skill with which jon mcgregor lets the characters breathe and age' roddy doyle, author of paddy clarke ha ha ha see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans winner of the costa novel awarda guardian book of the yearan ft book of the yeara tls book of the yeara telegraph book of the yearfrom the award-winning author of if nobody speaks of remarkable thingsthe villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet homemidwinter in the early years of this centuryreservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's lossan extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subsidea teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of englandmeanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsedthe search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life
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'helen dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' daily mail 'a beautiful and inspired novel' john le carré 'secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' sunday times helen dunmore has published eleven novels with penguin: zennor in darkness, which won the mckitterick prize; burning bright; a spell of winter, which won the orange prize; talking to the dead; your blue-eyed boy; with your crooked heart; the siege, which was shortlisted for the whitbread novel of the year award and for the orange prize for fiction ; mourning ruby; house of orphans; counting the stars and the betrayal, which was longlisted for the man booker prizeyet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escapespring, , and war haunts the cornish coastal village of zennor: ships are being sunk by u-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy storiesinto this turmoil come dthey befriend clare coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, john william, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shocksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of dh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world war
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham now a major tv series starring martin clunes, arsher ali and art malikfrom the winner of the man booker prize for fiction , an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mysteryarthur and george grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire villagemost of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can provearthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while george remains in hard-working obscuritysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as the great wyrley outragesthis is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham *longlisted for the man booker prize **shortlisted for the goldsmiths prize and the gordon burn prize *'i was grippedwhile the fury swirls around them, selvon and ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grimeprovocative, raw, poetic yet tender, in our mad and furious city marks the arrival of a major new talent in fictionbut now, after the killing of a british soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is saferemarkable' robert macfarlane, guardian books of the year'a novel so of this moment that you don't even realize you've waited your whole life for it' marlon jamesfor selvon, ardan and yusuf, growing up under the towers of stones estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedomsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretheir friend yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, irfan, with it
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square mary renault's classic greek historical novels 'the alexander trilogy', the first of which was nominated for the lost man booker prize ina fine gift for any mary renault fan or reader of greek historical fictionthis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleevesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham now a bbc radio 4 book at bedtime winner of the women's prize for fiction winner of the london hellenic prize shortlisted for the international dublin literary award shortlisted for the costa novel award shortlisted for the dsc prize for south asian literature longlisted for the man booker prize 'a book of the year, ' - guardian, observer, telegraph, new statesman, evening standard, new york times 'the book for our times' judges of the women's prize 'elegant and evocativebut she can't stop worrying about aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in london - or their brother, parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knewhandsome and privileged, he inhabits a london worlds away from theirsthen eamonn enters the sisters' livesas the son of a powerful british muslim politician, eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defyis he to be a chance at love? the means of parvaiz's salvation? two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? a contemporary reimagining of sophocles' antigone, home fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming kamila shamsie as a master storyteller of our timesa powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' guardian isma is freesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in america, resuming a dream long deferred
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Oxfam bookshop hertford shortlisted for the man booker prize snowdropsdrunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killersnick has a confessionwhen he worked as a high-flying british lawyer in moscow, he was seduced by masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruptionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethat's what the russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thawyet as nick fell for masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows
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Longlisted for the man booker prize run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with holly sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflictover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imaginingand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survivalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlas
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Oxfam shop worcester shortlisted for the man booker prize in see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the costa book of the yearwinner of the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award longlisted for the man booker prize 'pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the yearthen when a young indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive' observerafter signing up for the us army in the s, aged barely seventeen, thomas mcnulty and his brother-in-arms, john cole, fight in the indian wars and the civil warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehaving both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in
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Oxfam shop wolverhampton a brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double man booker prize-winning author of 'wolf hall' and 'bring up the bodies'in these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday façadeschildhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'comma'; nurses clash in 'harley street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting gamehilary mantel is one of britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writersdisplaying all of mantel's unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether set in a claustrophobic saudi arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit
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