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Telling Liddy
ISBN: 9780552777117
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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Telling Liddy
by Anne Fine

The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, for shopping trips and casual suppers. They care for one another’s children and houses and pets through holidays and emergencies. They lend each other books and spare heaters and clothes for...

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My Name Is Salma
ISBN: 9780552776912
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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My Name Is Salma
by Fadia Faqir

When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, her innocent days playing the pipe for her goats are gone for ever. She is swept into prison for her own protection. To the sound of her screams, her newborn baby daughte...

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Nadia's Song
ISBN: 9780553825831
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Modern fiction
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Nadia's Song
by Soheir Khashoggi

Brought up on his father's cotton plantation in Alexandria, Charles Austen had always led a privileged life.But when Charles falls hopelessly in love with Karima Ismail, his world is turned upside down.For although beautiful, and blessed with a magni...

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Unchained Melanie
ISBN: 9780552776455
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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Unchained Melanie
by Judy Astley

Melanie finds herself single again after years of being one half of a couple. Her friends predict loneliness, frustration, disaster. Her parents are convinced she’s a failure in life. But Melanie is overwhelmingly excited to be able to do her own thi...

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Cold Comfort
ISBN: 9780552776875
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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Cold Comfort
by Susannah Waters

Two young people against the world . . .Tammy’s kitchen table is tilting. Her house is sinking into the ground, and the sun just won’t stop shining. But no one seems to notice. In Alaska, things are changing fast: the perm...

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Games People Play
ISBN: 9780552776899
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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Games People Play
by Louise Voss

Change is sometimes hard to face up to.Rachel is a rising tennis star. But does she want success more than she wants a ‘real’ life, and a steady boyfriend like everyone else?Susie is Rachel’s mother....

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London Irish
ISBN: 9780552776035
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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London Irish
by Zane Radcliffe

Half-Irish, half-Scots (and half-cut), Bic runs a moderately-successful stall selling crepes in Greenwich market in the shadow of the Millennium dome (which is news to his father, who thinks he's dragging his heels a bit over his botany degree). ...

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The Prison House
ISBN: 9780099548638
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Modern fiction
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The Prison House
by John King

Jimmy has reached a crossroads in life. After many months of drifting and drinking his way around Europe he finds himself incarcerated in Seven Towers, a notorious hilltop prison, peering into the abyss. Jimmy is now a fully-fledged alien, unable to ...

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A Perfect Life
ISBN: 9780553825084
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Modern fiction
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A Perfect Life
by Kate Thompson

Golden girl Calypso O'Kelly is used to getting what she wants. As a powerful casting director, she calls the shots. Closet romantic Dannie Moore is mistress of her own destiny. Having had her fingers burned once by her war correspondent partn...

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Nectar
ISBN: 9780552776189
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Modern fiction
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Nectar
by Lily Prior

Romona Drottoveo, an albino with unusual looks, is a chambermaid at a lush Italian country estate. Distinguished by an intoxicating scent she exudes, Ramona is despised by women and worshipped by men whose inexhaustible lust for Ramona she satisfies,...

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