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A Novel
by Barry Unsworth
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by Parisa Reza
Published Dec 2016
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by Louis de Bernieres
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsEpic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
by Arthur Phillips
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsThis darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston, by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.
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