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Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend-a holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing, and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar. But over the course of the four days we discover...
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One man's escape is another's prison… Midwinter break provides the aristocratic boys of Harlebone School with eight weeks of freedom from their studies, harsh schoolmasters, and each other. But Wilstaire Cathermay-Gravence plots a more permanent escape. With one brother dead in a foreign war, his father succumbing to madness, and fears over his own sanity looming, Wil runs away from the school and from his family. But the escape he dreamed of is...
3) Reservoir 13
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Reservoir novels volume 1
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English
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Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed....
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Saga Press
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[2017]
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English
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With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King of Pohorir in the east, Kehara Raehema knows her country is in a vulnerable position. She never expected to give up everything she loves to save her people, but when the Mad King's fury leaves her land in danger, she has no choice but to try any stratagem that might buy time for her people to prepare for war--no matter the personal cost. Hundreds of miles away, the pitiless Wolf Duke of...