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A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
by Giles Milton
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The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
by Julia Stuart
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsBrimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
by Alan Bennett
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, the Queen is transformed as she discovers the liberating pleasures of the ...
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
by Brock Clarke
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsAs a teenager, Sam Pulsifer's accidentally torches an American landmark, and killed two people in the blaze. After ten years in prison, he thinks he has put his past behind him - but when the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, go up in ...
by Jasper Fforde
Published Jul 2005
Read ReviewsCan Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swindon win the world croquet championship and thus prevent the end of the world? All this and more is revealed in this, the 4th volume in the Thursday Next series.
by Nick Hornby
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsIt's a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion . . . and how to be good. 'Hornby's quick eye and nimble observational style nail everyone's vanity'.
He who opens a door, closes a prison
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