The irish novel of the year
List the irish novel of the year
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Oxfam shop dumfries on an island off the windswept irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year - the marriage of jules keegan and will slaterhidden jealousiesand as a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped thirteen guests the wedding cake has barely been cut when one of the guests is found deadone guest won't leave this wedding alivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall have a motiveall have a secret
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Bomber is a novel of waroxfam bookshop st albans the classic novel of the second world war that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raidlen deighton has been equally acclaimed as a novelist and as an historianin its emotional power it is overwhelmingbomber follows the progress of an allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer ofthere are no victors, no vanquishedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are simply those who remain alive, and those who dieit portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, both in the air and on the ground, in britain and in germanyin bomber he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiecein its documentary style, it is unique
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham "discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped british and irish history, from stone age britain to the present day, in this fully revised and updated bookspanning six distinct periods of english, welsh, scottish, and irish history, this book is the best way to find out how britain transformed with the norman rule, fought two world wars in the 20th century, and finally came to terms with a new status in a fast-changing economycombining over 700 photographs, maps, and illustrations with accessible text, the history of britain and ireland is an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more about the fascinating story of the british isles" see oxfam website for delivery information read moredk's visual guide places key figures - from alfred the great to winston churchill - and major events - from caesar's invasion to the battle of the somme - in their wider context, making it easier than ever before to learn how they influenced britain and ireland's development through the age of the world's greatest empire into the modern era
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Lady is sired by the irish draught stallion the scrapman (class one) who now is in mexico her dam is derrynamucha kate)also a class onelady is a 2 years old and is standing a shy of 152hh,she is a performance bred filly2hh now and will mature to 16lady has had her teeth done feet paired to date and also been strictly wormed lady is open yo vet and delivery available at cost read morelady has the best breeding you can get,lady will make a fantastic eventer/showing/hunter has this is what she is bred to do she moves very straight and correct and very free moving
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Vintage sheet music rory darlin' irish balladwords by f e weatherly music by hope temple copyright by bossey & co london does have previous owner's name and date june 3rd on the top right of the front coverin good condition for age
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Your chance to own the graphic novel that the film atomic blonde was based offit has been read once, the spine has been cracked as the pictures show, i haven’t turned down any page corners and it is in fantastic conditionit is a fantastic read! only selling as don’t have enough roomthanks for looking! ad id: delivery service consumer credit
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I read it in one gulp'a bullet train of a thriller' - nelson demille, author of the cuban affair'the president is missing is heart-pounding, gripping, terrifyingoxfam shop wolverhampton 'the dream team delivers big time' - david baldacci'the president is missing is more than a thriller - it's a skeleton key that lets you inside the head of a u' - bill clinton 'needless to say, we had some great conversations about the presidency, what life in washington is really like, and about the state of america and the rest of the world' - brad meltzer, author of the escape artist'from the pens of two american icons comes a political thriller that rocksmy knuckles are still white!' - louise penny, no1 bestselling author of glass houses'marry the political savvy of bill clinton with the craftsmanship of james patterson and you get a fabulously entertaining thriller that is meticulous in its portrayal of washington politics, gripping in its pacing, and harrowing in its depiction of the perils of cyberwarfarethe world is in shockthe president is missing puts the listener inside the white house and inside the mind of a president grappling with extraordinary circumstancesand it could really happenthe president is missingwith details only a president could know, and the kind of suspense only james patterson can deliverpatterson and clinton have created a truly unique character in their 'missing' presidenta helluva storythe day of the jackal for the twenty-first centuryi believe that readers will not soon forget president jonathan duncan and his storya genuinely masterful thriller' - harlan coben, no1 bestselling author of don't let go'yes, the president is missing is fiction - it's a thriller - but james patterson and i have come up with three of the most frightening days in the history of the presidency' - jeffery deaver'a first-rate collaboration from a couple of real pros! engrossing from page one' - dennis quaid on the audiobook of the president is missing'relentless in its plotting and honest in its examination of issues that strike close to our hearts' - michael connelly, author of the harry bosch series'the president is missing is a big, splashy juggernaut of a novel, combining thrills with a truly authentic look at the inner happenings in washingtonclinton's insider secrets and patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decadeand it happens so fast' - james patterson 'i felt like i was right along with the characters for the shocking twists and turns you'll never guess are coming' - ron chernow, no1 bestselling and pulitzer prize-winning author of alexander hamilton and grant see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut the reason he's missing is much worse than anyone can imaginethese days, the seemingly impossible can happenfinn, author of the woman in the window'this book moves like air force one
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read morefinally, the book presents the poet's two greatest masterpieces in their entirety: the duino elegies and the sonnets to orpheusmitchell's versions more clearly than in any others," said wthis modern library edition presents stephen mitchell's acclaimed translations of rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet's rich formal music and depth of thought"if rilke had written in english," denis donoghue wrote in the new york times book review, "he would have written in this english"rilke's voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in mroxfam shop colne road the reputation of rainer maria rilke has grown steadily since his death in ; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth centuryincluded too are passages from rilke's influential novel, the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, and nine of his brilliant uncollected prose piecesit contains representative poems from his early collections the book of hours and the book of pictures; many selections from the revolutionary new poems, which drew inspiration from rodin and cezanne; the hitherto little-known "requiem for a friend"; and a generous selection of the late uncollected poems, which constitute some of his finest work"his work is masterful" ahead of all parting is an abundant selection of rilke's lifework
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Recasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitsin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophythese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics "a forceful, encyclopedic studyin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightpages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksfine unclipped dust-wrappersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondusing archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitarians"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbroken
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Her objective is to suggest political readings of these themes and related texts by revealing hitherto unstudied and novel interactions in the cities of asia minor during the mongol periodthis book is essential for all historians and middle east scholars and is the latest volume in transaction's armenian studies seriesdadoyan focuses on the armenian condition and role in the medieval islamic worldoxfam bookshop aberystwyth in the third volume of the trilogy, seta bin the last part of the volume, she presents the first and only polemical-apologetic armenian texts addressed to islam at the end of the fourteenth centurydadoyan draws the outlines of a new philosophy of armenian history based on hitherto obscured patterns of interactionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her first two volumesthe first three chapters of this volume are dedicated to the images of prophet muhammad in armenian literatureshe argues that if the entire region was the habitat of most of the armenians, their history too is part of these locations and peoplesdadoyan argues that the cosmopolitan urban environments were radically different from rural areas and close interactions took different and unexpected patternsdadoyan shows that direct interactions and borrowings happened regularly from islamic sciences, reform projects, poetry, and arts
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Oxfam shop pershore the first in ken follett's bestselling century trilogy, fall of giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the first world war, the russian revolution, and the struggle for votes for womenin a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, fall of giants moves seamlessly from washington to st petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mightythe coronation day of king george vlady maud fitzherbert falls in love with walter von ulrich, a spy at the german embassy in londontheir destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to usee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe williams, a welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine ownerspresident woodrow wilson and with two orphaned russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to america fall foul of war, conscription and revolution
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Based on the children's novel by cressida cowelldisc and case in very good conditionthough the berk dragon academy, created by hiccup's father stoic the vast (nolan north), still plays a role in maintaining human and dragon relations, the schemes of alvin the treacherous (mark hamill) and the group of human outcasts he leads threaten to upset the balance of the kingdomwith the uneasy cohabitation of dragons and vikings in berk continuing to look fragile, hiccup (voice of jay baruchel) and his friends once again find themselves at the heart of a number of adventures as they try to keep peace in the areaoxfam bookshop carlisle second volume of episodes from the second series of the animated show dreamworks dragons ()see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe episodes are: 'a view to a skrill: part ii', 'the flight stuff', 'free scauldy', 'frozen', 'a tale of two dragons', 'the eel effect', 'smoke gets in your eyes', 'bing! bam! boom!', 'cast out: part i' and 'cast out: part ii'
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Oxfam shop dumfries sunday times bestseller prayer for the dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling inspector mclean series by author james oswaldteamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher powerin a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of gilmerton cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purificationbut it is not the only thing about this case that mclean will find beyond belief'are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?' praise for james oswald: 'a star of scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene' daily record 'crime fiction's next big thing' the sunday telegraph 'literary sensationoswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre' daily express see oxfam website for delivery information read moreinspector tony mclean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eyejames' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of e l james and her fifty shades of grey series' daily mail 'fifty shades of hay' the times 'oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent scottish crime writers' daily mail 'the new ian rankin' daily record 'an excellent start to what promises to be a fine series' guardian 'classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit'the hallmarks of val mcdermid or ian rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish' the herald***'are you ready to be reborn?' the search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murderthe baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible
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I read it in one gulpmy knuckles are still white!' - louise penny, 1 bestselling author of glass houses'marry the political savvy of bill clinton with the craftsmanship of james patterson and you get a fabulously entertaining thriller that is meticulous in its portrayal of washington politics, gripping in its pacing, and harrowing in its depiction of the perils of cyberwarfare' - nelson demille, author of the cuban affair'the president is missing is heart-pounding, gripping, terrifying' - david baldacci'the president is missing is more than a thriller - it's a skeleton key that lets you inside the head of a u' - bill clinton 'needless to say, we had some great conversations about the presidency, what life in washington is really like, and about the state of america and the rest of the world' - brad meltzer, author of the escape artist'from the pens of two american icons comes a political thriller that rocksthe world is in shockthe president is missing puts the listener inside the white house and inside the mind of a president grappling with extraordinary circumstancesand it could really happenwith details only a president could know, and the kind of suspense only james patterson can deliver' - harlan coben, 1 bestselling author of don't let go'yes, the president is missing is fiction - it's a thriller - but james patterson and i have come up with three of the most frightening days in the history of the presidencyoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'the dream team delivers big timepatterson and clinton have created a truly unique character in their 'missing' presidenta helluva storythe day of the jackal for the twenty-first century' - lee child the president is missingi believe that readers will not soon forget president jonathan duncan and his storya genuinely masterful thriller' - jeffery deaver'a first-rate collaboration from a couple of real pros! engrossing from page one' - ron chernow, 1 bestselling and pulitzer prize-winning author of alexander hamilton and grant see oxfam website for delivery information read more'a bullet train of a thriller' - dennis quaid on the audiobook of the president is missing'relentless in its plotting and honest in its examination of issues that strike close to our hearts' - michael connelly, author of the harry bosch series'the president is missing is a big, splashy juggernaut of a novel, combining thrills with a truly authentic look at the inner happenings in washingtonclinton's insider secrets and patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decadeand it happens so fast' - james patterson 'i felt like i was right along with the characters for the shocking twists and turns you'll never guess are comingbut the reason he's missing is much worse than anyone can imaginethese days, the seemingly impossible can happenfinn, author of the woman in the window'this book moves like air force one
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the first world war, the russian revolution, and the struggle for votes for womenthe coronation day of king george vlady maud fitzherbert falls in love with walter von ulrich, a spy at the german embassy in londonpresident woodrow wilson and to two orphaned russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to america fall foul of war, conscription and revolutiontheir destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to usee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe williams, a welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine ownersin a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, fall of giants moves seamlessly from washington to st petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty
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Oxfam bookshop reigate the first novel in the bestselling karen pirie seriesthe award-winning number one bestseller and queen of crime fiction val mcdermid carves out a stunning psychological thrillerthe past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart some things just won't let gotwenty-five years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspectsfor the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim - find out who really killed rosie all those years agoand the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her bloodthe past, for instanceon a freezing fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snowbut when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justicethe girl's body in the snowsee oxfam website for delivery information read morerosie has been raped, stabbed and left to die in an ancient pictish cemeterythat night in the cemetery
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Based on the novel by michael dobbs and the subsequent bbc adaptation of the book, the series follows francis underwood (spacey), a politician whose sense of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife claire (robin wright)in this series, underwood is appointed vice president of the usaarmed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone in washington, francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail his way to the tophowever, never one to rest on his laurels, he soon has his eye on the top joboxfam shop herne bay all 13 episodes from the second series of the award-winning political drama starring kevin spaceysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop brigg the booker prize-winning final novel in pat barker's classic 'regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of the silence of the girls'an extraordinary tour de forcearmy psychiatrist william rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly billy prior, who is about to return to combat in france with young poet wilfred owenas rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, prior and owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generationone of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century british fiction' jonathan coe'powerful, deeply movingthe ghost road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the first world warthe regeneration trilogy:regenerationthe eye in the doorthe ghost road see oxfam website for delivery information read morea triumph' sunday times'harrowing, original, unforgettable' independent, the closing months of the war
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Originally published as the painted wall, otto kraus's autobiographical novel, tells the true story of 500 jewish children who lived in the czech family camp in auschwitz-birkenau between september and junebut trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that alex is involved inhe spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp'alex ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in auschwitz-birkenau, the children's blocksee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe grow intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die togetheroxfam bookshop cheltenham 'we lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eightthere was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a hindu god or a centipedealex is keeping a diary
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Based on the novel by michael dobbs and the subsequent bbc adaptation of the book, the show follows francis underwood (spacey), a politician whose sense of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife claire (robin wright)armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone in washington, francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail his way to the topoxfam shop colne road all 13 episodes from the fourth season of the award-winning political drama starring kevin spaceysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this season, claire begins campaigning for her own place in washington, francis makes a political move that angers russia and claire clashes with the secretary of state
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Narrated by a country girl from the north, the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her member of parliamentsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham when the americans make an offer to buy land in iceland to build a nato airbase after the second world war, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the countryher observations and experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless and shallow and in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid and less fanciful north
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The first novel from the bestselling author of finding peggy tells the story of clydebank through its destruction during the blitz and postwar declinehere were real families, pulling together and laughing at their troubles and fighting to be a communityits wonderful characters leap off the page at you; they will make you smile, make you sad and make your spirits soar, and, given the chance, they will take up permanent lodgings in your heartoxfam shop inverness an angela's ashes of scotlandand then in march a rain of fire descended on them as the nazis tried to snuff the bankies' spirit out; but this was a spirit not so easily extinguishedlife for the folk who lived in clydebank's great tenements, known fondly as the holy city, could be hardsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe holy city is a tale of the extraordinary heroism and humour of ordinary men and womenbut it could also be full of fun, largely because everything was shared
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Based on the novel by michael dobbs and the subsequent bbc adaptation of the book, the show follows francis underwood (spacey), a politician whose sense of ambition is matched and encouraged by his wife claire (robin wright)armed with an arsenal of political secrets to equal anyone in washington, francis is more than willing to scheme and blackmail his way to the topin this season, francis's approval ratings plummet, a devastating hurricane hits the east coast and claire makes plans to run for ambassador to the uoxfam shop colne road all 13 episodes from the third season of the award-winning political drama starring kevin spaceysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop dumfries the eighth novel in the will trent series from noa body is discovered in an empty atlanta warehousebecause an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to will's troubled past see oxfam website for delivery information read morebloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim - a woman - has left the scene and vanished into thin airit's the body of an ex-cop, and from the moment special agent will trent walks in he knows this could be the most devastating case of his careerbut sara's scene-of-the-crime diagnosis is that they only have a few hours to find the missing woman before she bleeds out1 bestselling author, karin slaughterbut for will - and also for dr sara linton, the gbi's newest medical examiner - the case is about to get even worsea local hero will has spent the last six months investigating on a brutal rape chargeand, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest, most politically-connected, most high-profile athlete - a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyersthe consequences will wreak havoc on his life and the lives of those he loves, those he works with, and those he pursues
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The novel champions understanding between different beings/peoples, encouraging harmony and friendship, making the book an excellent gift for any young personfantasy book for children 8/15 years: fay-nights an intriguing adventure story as the young fynn moves from a believable world into a captivating tale of friendship and survival inside the ancient lands of the watcheye and the game: it is called fay-nightsplease don 't hesitate to contact me for any further information and many thanks for just viewing some of my workkind regards, miggy j
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Tony hawks directs and stars in this comedy drama adapted from his novel of the same nameoxfam shop herne hill brand new & sealedwhile watching tv coverage of england beating moldova 4-0 in , tony's friend steve (stephen frost) bets him that he wouldn't be able to challenge the moldovans individually to a game of tennis, and beat them allsee oxfam website for delivery information read morerising to the challenge, tony sets off for moldova, but after arriving in the poverty-stricken country, he soon realises that winning the wager is going to be a far more demanding task than he first thought
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Oxfam bookshop aylesbury first edition : large format hardback graphic novel by raymond briggsraymond briggs's comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple, in his usual humorous, yet macabre wayother than that the cover is in very good conditioninternally the book is clean, bright and tightly boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is a dent in the upper edge of the back cover, and some small dents on the front cover as in someone writing on top of it
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As ella makes unsettling discoveries about white's and the society's past, the novel explores the nature of literature, storytelling and truth itselfon the evening that she is initiated as the tenth member of the local literary societywhite, who was its founder, disappears before everyone's eyesella is an unsettled young teacher and aspiring author, who returns to her hometown of rabbit backsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans there is a secret at the heart of a small finnish town, involving its most famous occupant, the world-renowned children's author laura white, and a strange literary game
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An adaptation of charles dickens' comic novel concerning a group of bachelors who travel around victorian englandalong the way they encounter a wealth of comic characters and are swindled, sued and thrown into a debtors' prisonoxfam shop kendal disks in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenaming themselves the pickwick club after their founder, samuel pickwick (james hayter), the gents' journey brings them many surprises and a host of revelations about themselves and the current state of the worldcase in very good condition
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Oxfam shop ulverston jennifer lawrence reprises her role as katniss everdeen in the second instalment of the sci-fi adventure trilogy based on the novel by suzanne collinsbut soon after, while on a 'victory tour' of the other districts, she becomes aware of growing dissent to the capitol's rule, and realises that rebellion is in the airsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas panem prepares itself for the third 'quarter quell' (75th hunger games), autocratic ruler president coriolanus snow (donald sutherland), still smarting from the capitol's humiliation in the last games, stacks the deck to ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe out any resistance from the districts once and for allfresh from her triumph in the 74th annual hunger games, katniss, along with fellow winner peeta mellark (josh hutcherson), returns home to district 12 for some much needed rest
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