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As Rob reaches the end of a seven year stretch inside, he winds up in an open prison in Brixton. Each morning, he exits the prison gates and begins the short walk to a local charity shop, where he spends the day in the backroom sorting through other people’s discarded belongings. All he needs to do is keep his nose out of trouble and, in just a few months’ time, he’ll be out for good. One morning – in the bustle of commuters on Brixton Hill, Rob notices a well-dressed woman trip over. He helps her up and they exchange a few words before parting ways – but she leaves a lasting impression on him.
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How long can you protect your heart? For years, rumours of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life – until the unthinkable happens.
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London, 1976. In Belgravia in the heat of summer, Lee Jones, a faded and embittered rock star, is checking out a group of women through the heavy cigarette smoke in a crowded pub. He makes eye contact with one, and winks. After allowing glances to linger for a while longer, he finally moves towards her. In that moment, his programme of terror – years in the making – has begun. Months later, the first of the many chilling headlines to come appears: ‘Police hunting winking killer’. Meanwhile in France, Charles Underhill, a wealthy Englishman living in Paris, has good reason to be interested in the activities of the so-called Winking Killer. With a past to hide and his future precarious, Charles is determined to discover the Winker’s identity. In the overheating cities of London, Oxford, Paris, and Nice, a game of cat and mouse develops, and catching someone’s eye becomes increasingly perilous.
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Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees or the paintings of Franz Marc, Mary Oliver reminds us of the transformative power of attention and how much can be contained within the smallest moments. ‘Blue Horses’ asks what it truly means to belong to this world and to live in it attuned to all its changes.
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Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments. In ‘A Thousand Mornings’ she explores, with startling clarity, humour, and kindness, the mysteries of our daily experience.
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London, 1894. ‘I am not a detective, chief constable’. ‘No, but you are a poet, a freemason and man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business at hand’. So says police chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Born Eugenia Peterson in early 20th century Russia, Indra Devi was a rebel from earliest childhood. In the 1930s she fled to Berlin, and then – driven by her passion for yoga and a fascination with yogic philosophy – she journeyed to India, at a time when unaccompanied young European women were unheard of. In India she performed perhaps her greatest feat – convincing even the most recalcitrant yogis, from Krishnamurti to Krishnamacharya, to reveal to her the secrets of their art. Written with vivid clarity, and describing the extraordinary spread and popularisation of a philosophical movement, this book brings Indra Devi’s little-known but wholly remarkable story to life.
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Born Eugenia Peterson in early 20th century Russia, Indra Devi was a rebel from earliest childhood. In the 1930s she fled to Berlin, and then – driven by her passion for yoga and a fascination with yogic philosophy – she journeyed to India, at a time when unaccompanied young European women were unheard of. In India she performed perhaps her greatest feat – convincing even the most recalcitrant yogis, from Krishnamurti to Krishnamacharya, to reveal to her the secrets of their art. Written with vivid clarity, and describing the extraordinary spread and popularisation of a philosophical movement, this book brings Indra Devi’s little-known but wholly remarkable story to life.
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It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. ‘The Sympathizer’ is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
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Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behaviour of everyone around him, it would seem that he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away too – and on the eve of her 99th year – and it could be that they were both murdered. Apart from that, he feels fine. As his family gather for the 99th birthday celebration that never was, he hovers around the house, watching and listening, entirely unseen. As a result, he makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmerelda – and his supposedly happy family.
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When Elizabeth Price engages Roland Gibbons to find out the truth about her husband’s suspected affair, she sets off a chain of correspondence that reunites four couples. In a series of letters, from love notes to condolence messages, each protagonist is far more self-revealing than they would ever be in person.
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Henry Farr is forty years old. He is suburban, average, conventional, and desperate to be rid of his wife, Elinor. Farr begins to concoct a recipe for the perfect murder. But his plans go terribly, terribly wrong and before long, poor Henry’s best efforts to set himself free send him spiralling out of control.
