The walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award
List the walter scott prize for historical fiction winner of the independent bookshop week book award
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the walter scott prize for historical fiction sunday times barry ronge fiction prize university of johannesburg english literary award nominated for the folio prize in , the ss birmingham approaches indiaas morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyesduring these years, morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to his remarkable novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreforster's great work of literature, is publishedit will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in india, before a passage to india, ethe seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty skyat once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of britain's finest novelists - his struggle to find a way of living and being - and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, arctic summer is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generationon board is morgan forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery
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Oxfam bookshop hertford **shortlisted for the walter scott prize th century oakham, in somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridgewhen a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of shrove saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? the village priest, john reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessorsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough his eyes, and his indelible voice, harvey creates a medieval world entirely tangible in its immediacybut will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, thomas newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village? and what will happen if he can't?moving back in time towards the moment of thomas newman's death, the story is related by reve - an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep
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Oxfam shop bishop's stortford **winner of the william hill sports book of the year award**a sunday times book of the year and telegraph best book of 'extraordinary' clare baldingthe poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking channel swim became realityeltham, south londonphotographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from france to englandsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of childhoodfast-forward four yearshe has been in the water for twelve agonizing hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, john bullet, who has become a second fatherthe hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom
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Mum and dad have both been dna lab tested and verified as biewers! they will be micro-chipped, 1st vaccinated, wormed, vet-checked, frontlined and will leave with 1 months insurance when they go to their new homes! book yours now! please also click on the link 'watch video'' for a better view of the mum and pupsbookings only we have 6 beautiful pure biewer yorkies for sale! they are 5 boys and 1 girl
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Light foxing on endpaperssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally clean and unmarkedprofessor sommerville has avoided this mistake and emphasised at every step the importance of geometrical arguments"dj has splits and chips and is foxedscience progress"this is a textbook for honours students at the universities and should prove most usefulthere has been a tendency in elementary textbooks to reduce three-dimensional geometry to a series of algebraic manipulations, and to obscure the geometrical ideas which for the essential part of the theoryoxfam shop shirley hardback with price-clipped dust jacket
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehappy bidding! read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikitwo great issues in great shape! i would grade these issues in as good as new condition, though i am not an official gradercatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefirst appearance of the morlocks and callistosee the pictures to judge for yourselfbagged and boarded
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We have 6 beautiful pure biewer yorkies for sale and ready to go to their new homes! they are 5 boys and 1 girlmum and dad have both been dna lab tested and verified as biewers! they will be micro-chipped, 1st vaccinated, wormed, vet-checked, frontlined and will leave with 1 months insurance when they go to their new homes! get yours now! please also click on the link 'watch video'' for a better view of the mum and pups
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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 )an astounding literary accomplishment, 'bring up the bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayssee 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 seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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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 exceptionalby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifei 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 dayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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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 prizesby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymourcromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prize'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years laterthrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel
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Shortlisted for the theakston's crime novel of the year awardoxfam bookshop hertford winner of the cwa john creasey new blood dagger for best debut crime novel of the yearinspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled new orleans, the axeman's jazz by ray celestin is a gripping thriller announcing a major talent in historical crime fictionas michael, luca and ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of new orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victimobsessed with sherlock holmes and dreaming of a better life, she stumbles across a clue which lures her and her musician friend, louis armstrong, to the case - and into terrible dangeras a dark serial killer - the axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him:detective lieutenant michael talbot - heading up the official investigation, but struggling to find leads, and harbouring a grave secret of his ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas recommended on the radio 2 arts show with claudia winklemanand ida - a secretary at the pinkerton detective agencyformer detective luca d'andrea - now working for the mafia; his need to solve the mystery of the axeman is every bit as urgent as that of the authorities
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the hugo award for best novel book 1 in the record-breaking triple hugo-award-winning trilogy***a new york times notable book******shortlisted for the world fantasy, nebula, kitschies, audie and locus awards******the inaugural wiredcom book club pick this is the way the world ends'astounding' npr;'amazing' ann leckie; 'breaks uncharted ground' library journal; 'powerful' io9; 'elegiac, complex, and intriguing' publishers weekly; 'intricate and extraordinary' new york times; 'brilliant' washington post the broken earth trilogy is complete - beginning with the fifth season, continuing in the obelisk gate (winner of the hugo award for best novel) and concluding with the stone sky (winner of the hugo award for best novel and nebula award)for the last timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sunit starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughterand where there is no mercyit starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to festerthis is the stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon
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winner of the costa first novel awardthe british book awards book of the yearoxfam bookshop cheltenham the sunday times top 10 bestselleryear after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the loney, in desperate hope of a cureand the loney always gives up its secrets, in the endit's an amazing piece of fiction' stephen kingtwo brothersone mute, the other his lifelong protectorbut then the child's body is foundin the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alonea brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'the loney is not just good, it's great'this is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' observer'a masterful excursion into terror' the sunday times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its endmany years on, hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the baileys' women's prize for fiction winner of the desmond elliot prize we all do stupid things when we're kidsthe gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'the neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than thatbut the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need itand nobody says ryan's stupidnot even behind his backif he blows that, he's all alonesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit's the people around him who are the problemryan cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for youthe prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one nightthe only one on ryan's side is his girlfriend karine
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade parisand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youththe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anotherthe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home
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The film received five academy award nominations, including best actress, for meryl streep; she also received the golden globe award for best actressrare in this beautiful condition! ¶ in "the french lieutenant's woman", the english writer john fowles () makes a groundbreaking work of historical fiction set in the victorian era; considered an example of historiographical metafiction, the novel uses real historical events to shape the literary narrative surrounding fowle's fictional charactersback cover has minimal stains, otherwise the book has "fine" condition, dust jacket "near fine" due to minimal wear on the endsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe dust jacket is not price-clippedthe film established fowles' international reputationcondition; excellent copy of this first uk edition with a very good dust jacketmade into a film in starring meryl streep and jeremy ironsthis was a huge success; the screenplay was done by harold pinter (who was subsequently nominated as a nobel laureate)
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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 holidayspending 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 barmanhe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fathersee 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 rhineas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his ownhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundat 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 absencebut 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 find
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the costa book of the year winner of the slightly foxed best first biography prize a sunday times paperback of the year 'a masterpiece of history and memoir' evening standard'superbthis is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' the timesshedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' judges of the costa book of the year see oxfam website for delivery information read morehis account of tracing lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two familiesmuch later, she fell out with her foster family, and bart van es - the grandson of lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out whyhidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had notlittle lien wasn't taken from her jewish parents in the hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be savedit is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefinedwrites with an almost sebaldian simplicity and understatement' guardian'sensational and gripping'luminous, elegant, haunting - i read it straight through' philippe sands, author of east west street'deeply moving
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the cwa john creasey new blood dagger for best debut crime novel of the yearshortlisted for the theakston's crime novel of the year awardas recommended on the radio 2 arts show with claudia winklemaninspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled new orleans, the axeman's jazz by ray celestin is an ambitious, gripping thriller from a major talent in historical crime fictionand as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the cityas michael, luca and ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of new orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victimsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreformer detective luca d'andrea has spent the last six years in angola state penitentiary, after michael, his protégée, blew the whistle on his corrupt behaviourthough every citizen of the 'big easy' thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, detective lieutenant michael talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggling to find leadsnow a newly freed man, luca is back working with the mafia, whose need to solve the mystery of the axeman is every bit as urgent as that of the authoritiesas a dark serial killer - the axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask himbut michael has a grave secret, and if he doesn't get himself on the right track fast, it could be exposedmeanwhile, ida is a secretary at the pinkerton detective agencyobsessed with sherlock holmes and dreaming of a better life, ida stumbles across a clue which lures her and her musician friend, louis armstrong, to the case - and into terrible danger
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Oxfam shop evesham winner of the baileys' women's prize for fiction winner of the desmond elliot prize we all do stupid things when we're kidsthe gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'the neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than thatbut the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need itand nobody says ryan's stupidnot even behind his backif he blows that, he's all alonesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit's the people around him who are the problemryan cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for youthe prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one nightthe only one on ryan's side is his girlfriend karine
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winner of the impac award and james tait black memorial prizeoxfam bookshop cheltenham the extraordinary prize-winning debut from andrew millersee oxfam website for delivery information read morea source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of georgian society to become a brilliant surgeonuntil, en route to st petersburg to inoculate the empress catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviouryet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than painat the dawn of the enlightenment, james dyer is born unable to feel pain
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the slightly foxed best first biography prize winner of the eastern eye alchemy festival award for literature in sophia duleep singh was born into royaltymeticulously researched and passionately written, this enthralling story of the rise of women and the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual and her part in the defining moments of recent british and indian historysophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality,a far cry from the life to which she was bornit was a territory irresistible to the british, who plundered everything, including the fabled koh-i-noor diamondsophia, god-daughter of queen victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace-and-favour lodgings at hampton court palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pagesher father, maharajah duleep singh, was heir to the kingdom of the sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush kashmir valley to the craggy foothills of the khyber pass and included the mighty cities of lahore and peshawarshe was bold and fearless, attacking politicians, putting herself in the front line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefieldsbut when, in secret defiance of the british government, she travelled to india, she returned a revolutionaryher causes were the struggle for indian independence, the fate of the lascars, the welfare of indian soldiers in the first world war - and, above all, the fight for female suffragesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexiled to england, the dispossessed maharajah transformed his estate at elveden in suffolk into a moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and exotic birds
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This series was the winner of the american institute of architects' prestigious "award for excellence in international book publishing"the volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderingssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' workseach volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects
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winner of the specsavers national book award and waterstones book of the yeara richard and judy book club selectionoxfam bookshop cheltenham the phenomenal number one bestseller and a major bbc tv seriesonly later does johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their homenella is at first mystified by the closed world of the brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them alldoes the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? and will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall?beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, jessie burton's magnificent debut novel the miniaturist is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truthsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is nothing hidden that will not be revealedit is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected wayson an autumn day in , eighteen-year-old nella oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of amsterdamshe has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader johannes brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, marin
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the man booker prize winner of the galaxy british book awards 'author of the year' 'an extraordinary and brilliant first novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-pullerwhen he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to delhi at the wheel of a hondahe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murdereradiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visiondriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cageamid today's india's cockroaches and call-centres, its gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new india
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winner of the booker prizethe story is told by its chief protagonist, saleem sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical eventsoxfam bookshop hertford portraying india's transition from british colonialism to independence and the partition of india it is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literaturesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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winner of the specsavers national book award and waterstones book of the yeara richard and judy book club selectionoxfam bookshop hertford the phenomenal number one bestseller and a major bbc tv seriesonly later does johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their homenella is at first mystified by the closed world of the brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them alldoes the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? and will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall?beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, jessie burton's magnificent debut novel the miniaturist is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth* superficial wear and tear to front cover and inside title page is slightly creased at the bottomsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is nothing hidden that will not be revealedit is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected wayson an autumn day in , eighteen-year-old nella oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of amsterdamshe has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader johannes brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, marin
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Author: lionel shriver winner of the orange prize for fiction read moretitle: we need to talk about kevin
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