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A discreet advertisement in The Times lures four very different women away from the dismal British weather to San Salvatore, a castle high above a bay on the sunny Italian Riviera. There, the Mediterranean spirit stirs the souls of Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Wilkins, Lady Caroline Dester and Mrs Fisher, and remarkable changes occur.
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Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition in a unique autobiography.
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Joshua Foer takes us on a journey through the mind, from ancient ‘memory palace’ techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, he shows how we can all improve our memories.
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W.G. Sebald traces the moving story of Jacques Austerlitz, sent to Wales on the last Kindertransport from Europe on the eve of World War II. He is adopted by Welsh Calvinists who decide to remove any trace of his true origins.
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George Smiley’s interview with Samuel Fennan went well & he was able to reassure Fennan that the matter they had discussed would be dropped. Smiley was shocked to discover next day that Fennan had committed suicide as a result of the interview, but why?
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Why are some people and organizations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? In business, it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it. Here, Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to ask the more important question – why?
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On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled – and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall.
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A biography of one of history’s most compelling artists, whose hot temper was as renowned as his work.
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An early morning call to a dying millionaire throws private eye Philip Marlowe into West Hollywood’s hidden world of blackmail, menace and muscle. Knowing he must protect this man’s daughters Marlowe didn’t realise he would become so involved.
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George Smiley becomes involved in the affairs of Carne School in Dorset when the wife of a school master is murdered. Gradually Smiley uncovers layers of intrigue and complexity behind the very English facade of the school.
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Nine teenagers and their guardians are hiding on Earth – protected by a charm that means they can only be killed in numeric order, three are already dead. John Smith is Number Four. And his mortal enemies are hunting him down.
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Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to see another day.