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A Working-Class Family Ages Badly - 'Remarkable' the Observer by Juno Roche
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'An incredibly honest tale of survival, escape and resilience' The Observer 'Roche is a charming, unflinchingly honest guide on a journey that's as funny as it is heart-breaking.' JUNO DAWSON How does an untrained eye recognise the process of dying, when your mind is fixed firmly on living? A radica ...Show more
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space - Starmetal Symphony, Book 1 by Alex White
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
In this new wide-screen space opera, humanity has met its match. An alien race of enormous robotic AI have destroyed most of humanity's outposts. But, on the eve of the Earth's destruction, a musician makes one last desperate attempt to reach out and convinces one of humanity's enemies to switch sides. ...Show more
Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz
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Category: Popular History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealin ...Show more
Broken Ground (#5 Karen Pirie) by Val McDermid
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right pla ...Show more
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Karen Pirie 5
Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right pla ...Show more
Chaise Longue by Baxter Dury
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Methods of parenting and education have progressed in recent years, especially compared to some of the more casually experimental routes inflicted on children of artistic professionals in the 70s and 80s. One experience that would take some beating is that endured by Baxter Dury.When punk rock star Ian ...Show more
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." --Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her hus ...Show more
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir by Barbara Amiel
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman' Elton John 'Blistering . . . shockingly candid . . . stiletto-sharp memoir of the year' Daily Mail 'Magnetic and magnificent . ...Show more
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
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Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story that's worthy of the big screen' Kate Spencer, author of In a New York MinuteTen years later and she still has butterflies. But does he feel the same way?Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former classmates are nabbing high-p ...Show more
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
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Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYL ...Show more
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year by Emma Styles
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Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER.A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle . . .'Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together f ...Show more