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Agatha christie and the eleven missing days
In december 1926 agatha christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in berkshire, england. The crime writer was found eleven days later in a hotel in harrogate, yorkshire, claiming to be the victim of...
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The boat in the evening
A series of semi-autobiographical sketches, the boat in the evening evokes intensely poetic scenes with cinematic beauty a colony of cranes arrive at their mating ground to play out a delicate ritual drama a boy and his father clear a road...
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The hundred yen singer
Rinka kazuki sings enka, traditional japanese ballads, in sleazy dives where she makes most of her money from tips. Sometimes a big spender will slip her a 10,000-yen note, but often it will be only a hundred-yen coin - worth pennies.
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Wild and fearless
The appearance of margaret fountaines diaries in 1978 led to a publishing sensation. Love among the butterflies recorded the activities and private passions of a victorian vicars daughter from norfolk who became one of the foremost entomologists...
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A cat compendium
Louis wains witty feline illustrations sold many hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, and earned their creator the title the hogarth of cat life. A cat compendium brings together the very best of wains work. With a biographical...
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In the shadow of islam
In 1897 isabelle eberhardt, aged twenty, left an unconventional life in geneva for kenadsa, at the moroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and a desire to transcend boundaries, she travelled into the desert, into the heart of islam.
