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A Street Cat Named Bob
When james bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. james was living hand to mouth on the streets of london and the last thing he needed was a pet. yet james couldn’t resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened bob. he slowly nursed bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. but bob had other ideas. soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other’s troubled pasts. a street cat named bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.
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The Name Of The Star
Rory, of boueuxlieu, louisiana, is spending a year at a london boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a jack the ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
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The World According To Bob
The sequel to the bestselling ‘a street cat named bob’ continues the remarkable adventures of james and bob showing – through new stories – how bob’s extraordinary street wisdom has shown james the meaning of friendship, loyalty, trust – and happiness.
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The Wicked Wit Of Oscar Wilde
As a wit, wilde lived by his own maxim: “there is only one thing in the worldorse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” a centuryfter he left that world, he is not only still talked about, but widelyuoted. this tribute marks the centenary of his death.
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Wiggott’s Wonderful Waxworld
A mysterious tower. a girl in a glass case. a stolen phone. a door to an old waxworld. and boy. all things considered, things weren’t going too well for boy in wildpool. not only are the police looking for him, but the worrying arfur loaf is on the warpath too. he can look after himself, can boy, but going to wiggott’s wonderful waxworld to lie low for a while might be the worst decision he’s ever made. no – getting on the terror train – that’s the worst decision he’s ever made. now burke and hare are after him as well! all boy has to do is get back to his own time, escape the terror train and rescue the girl . . . all before it’s too late. that’s enough for any boy in one day.
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The Outlaws Scarlett And Browne
England has been radically changed by a series of catastrophes. the surviving population exists in fortified towns, while strangely evolved beasts prowl the wilderness beyond. those who fall foul of the rules are persecuted. only a few fight back – and two of these outlaws, scarlett mccain and albert browne, display an audacity and talent that makes them legends
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Elizabeth Is Missing
Sunday times top five bestseller elizabeth is missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author emma healey winner of the costa first novel award 2014 shortlisted for national book awards popular fiction book 2014 shortlisted for national book awards new writer of the year 2014 longlisted for the dylan thomas prize 2014 longlisted for the baileys prize for women’s fiction 2015 ‘a thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, i read it at a gulp’ deborah moggach, author of the best exotic marigold hotel ‘elizabeth is missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core…’ emma donoghue, author of room ‘resembling a version of memento written by alan bennett’ daily telegraph ‘one of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down’ jonathan coe, author of the rotters club ‘every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. gripping, haunting’ observer ‘if you’re after a read you can’t put down, then look no further’ new! meet maud. maud is forgetful. she makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. she goes to the shops and forgets why she went. sometimes her home is unrecognizable – or her daughter helen seems a total stranger. but there’s one thing maud is sure of: her friend elizabeth is missing. the note in her pocket tells her so. and no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, maud will get to the bottom of it. because somewhere in maud’s damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. one everyone has forgotten about. everyone, except maud . . .
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Confessions Of A Sociopath
Drawn from the author’s own experiences; her popular blog, sociopathworld. com; and scientific literature, this is part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious. written from the point of view of a diagnosed sociopath, it unveils for the very first time these people who are hiding in plain sight.
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Thomas Hardy
“thomas hardy was one of the great victorian novelists – and also one of the great twentieth-century poets. this is the first of the many paradoxes he presents. he was a believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; a driven man who ended his days in simplicity and serenity. born in 1840, he could recall his grandmother telling him she was ironing her muslin frock when she first heard that the french queen’s head had been cut off in the 1790s, yet he lived to know winston churchill and harold macmillan.” “he grew up in one of the most remote parts of the country, the son of a village builder and a girl who had gone into service as a child. his first book was a raging novel attacking the upper classes, judged too mischievous to publish, and his last two novels were also angry protests against the rigid class system and narrow moral code of the english. yet by this time he had been taken up by the aristocracy and danced attendance eagerly on the landed gentry and their ladies.” “he wrote classic accounts of the beauty of the countryside and the traditions of village life, but every spring he chose to leave dorset and spend the summer months in london for the season. while his wife, emma, lived, he wrote hardly a line of verse about her. only after her death did he devote himself to poems of love and regret. depression came so sharply to him that he sometimes said it would be better not to have been born. but in a moment, music, falling in love with a pretty face or seeing the view from a high point over the dorset hills could spring him out of the gloom.”–book jacket.
