by Dennis Lehane (Little, Brown) ISBN: 9781408703168 Dennis Lehane could write about a snail race and make it sound thrilling. He doesn’t though. The author of Shutter Island, Mystic River, and A Drink Before the War is back. Joe Coughlin meets icy beauty, Emma Gould, when he is 19. He is a small time gangster and she is Albert […]
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Gustave Flaubert was born 12 December 1821, and died 8 May 1880.
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Helen Dunmore was born 12 December 1952 and died 5 June 2017.
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by Andre Brink (Random House) ISBN 0 781846 557057 In 1832, after following the Elephant Trail that runs from the Village of Franschoek to the small town of Stellenbosch near Cape Town, the young slave woman, Philida arrives at the Drostdy. She is directed to the Office of the Slave Protector, to lodge a complaint
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by Sinovuyo Nkonki (Reach) ISBN: 9780620512459 Petra is a bi-racial high school student in Johannesburg, a pretty girl and average student. She’s nothing extraordinary—yet Kevin has sought her out for seduction. What she doesn’t realise is that Kevin has made a bet with his buddies that he will bag and bed her before the year
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by Lucinda Riley (Pan) ISBN 9781447218425 The cover promised a breath-taking and intense story of love, war and above all, forgiveness. I was disappointed. It is written without soul. The story is set in France and England and moves between 1943 and the present. During the war, Connie is trained as an agent and sent
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