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Title |
The sea |
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Author |
Banville, John |
Publisher |
Picador |
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When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he
spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a
recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. From the
Booker-shortlisted author of 'Shroud' and 'The Book of
Evidence'. Winner of the Booker prize 2005 |
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Title |
Arthur & George |
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Author |
Barnes, Julian |
Publisher |
Jonathan Cape |
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Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late
19th century Britain - Arthur in shabby-genteel
Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small
Staffordshire village. As the new century begins, they
are brought together by a sequence of events which make
sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley
Outrages. |
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Title |
A long long way |
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Author |
Barry, Sebastian |
Publisher |
Faber |
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Set at the onset of World War One, 'A Long Long Way'
evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie Dunne and
his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the
divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. It also
explores and dramatizes the events of the Easter Rising
within Ireland. |
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Title |
Checkmate |
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Author |
Blackman, Malorie |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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In this concluding volume in the 'Noughts and Crosses'
trilogy Rose, growing into young adulthood, discovers
the truth about her mixed parentage. Determined to know
more about her father and honour both sides of her
heritage, she finds herself drawn inexorably into
greater and greater danger. |
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Title |
Angels and demons |
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Author |
Brown, Dan |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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Robert Langdon is called upon to identify a mysterious
symbol seared onto a dead man's chest. It belongs to the
Illuminati, a secret brotherhood with a vendetta against
the Catholic church |
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Title |
The Da Vinci code |
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Author |
Brown, Dan |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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Harvard professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is
called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered.
Alongside the body is a series of baffling codes.
Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu,
are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da
Vinci - and beyond. |
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Title |
Sugar rush |
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Author |
Burchill, Julie |
Publisher |
Picador |
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Kim is horrified when her dad tells her she's got to
leave her private school and go to Ravendene
Comprehensive. But then she meets Maria Sweet (better
known as Sugar) and finds herself drawn into Sugar's
exciting and daring life. But is she also falling deeply
in love with her best friend? |
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Title |
Bloodsong |
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Author |
Burgess, Melvin |
Publisher |
Andersen |
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Sigurd has a fabulous but frightening future predicted -
but first he must leave everything he knows to go and
fight a dragon, and from there descend into the
Underworld. The dragon lives on a futuristic,
industrially-ruined moonscape that was once Hampstead
Heath. |
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Title |
Junk |
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Author |
Burgess, Melvin |
Publisher |
Puffin |
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Gemma runs away from home to join her boyfriend, Tar in
London. Soon they find themselves hooked on heroin and
Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug..
14-18 INTEREST title. |
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Title |
The key |
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Author |
Curley, Marianne |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury |
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The Order of Chaos begins its final and devastating
assault on the Named in a desperate bid to annihilate
them and gain absolute control of all the realms.
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Title |
The conch bearer |
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Author |
Divakaruni, Chitra Ban |
Publisher |
Chicken House |
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Anand wants his life to change. He was a happy
12-year-old before he was forced to go and work on the
streets of his home in India. His chance comes, the day
he meets a strange and ragged old beggar. Who is he?
What does he want? |
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Title |
Never let me go |
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Author |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Publisher |
Faber |
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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an
idyllic establishment situated deep in the English
countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered
from the outside world, brought up to believe they were
special, and that their personal welfare was crucial.
But for what reason were they really there? |
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Title |
The white darkness |
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Author |
McCaughrean, Geraldine |
Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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Captain Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for
nearly a century. But not in Sym's head. In there, he is
her constant companion and adviser. It is as if he
walked out of the Polar blizzard and into her mind. In
fact, if it were not for Titus, life might be as bleak a
place as the Antarctic wilderness. |
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Title |
Class A |
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Author |
Muchamore, Robert |
Publisher |
Hodder Children's |
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When CHERUB kids go undercover, no-one suspects that
they are trained professionals, working to infiltrate
criminal organizations that have eluded MI5 and the
police for years. James Adams is on his biggest mission
yet, working to nail Europe's most powerful cocaine
dealer. |
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Title |
Eldest |
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Author |
Paolini, Christophe |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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Darkness falls. Despair abounds. Evil reigns. Eragon and
his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state
from destruction by the mighty forces of King
Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must
travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further
training in magic and swordsmanship. |
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Title |
Eragon |
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Author |
Paolini, Christophe |
Publisher |
Corgi |
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The stone that Eragon thought was a valuable gem was a
dragon egg. Overnight his simple life is shattered and
he is plunged into a perilous new world of destiny,
magic and power. Will Eragon become a Dragon Rider? The
fate of the empire may rest in his hands and the
dragon's too. |
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Title |
Interview with the vampire |
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Author |
Rice, Anne |
Publisher |
Time Warner International |
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In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre
and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire,
gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite
craving for human blood. |
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Title |
The Queen of the Damned |
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Author |
Rice, Anne |
Publisher |
Time Warner Internationa |
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After 6000 years of horrifying stillness, Akasha, mother
of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from
her sleep to let loose the powers of the night.
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Title |
Does snogging count as exercise? |
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Author |
Salter, Helen |
Publisher |
Piccadilly |
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Meet Holly Stockwell - a 14-year-old who hates all forms
of exercise, gets tongue-tied around boys, and has a
best friend, Poppy, who seems to have been won over by
the rich and gorgeous Claudia. Could it get much worse?
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Title |
The innocent's story |
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Author |
Singer, Nicky |
Publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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When Cassina is blown up by a railway station bomb, life
as she knowns it is over. Except that she doesn't die.
She becomes a para-spirit - a presence that can live in
other people's minds. She can see their thoughts, feel
their emotions. But they have no idea that she's there.
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Title |
On beauty:a novel |
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Author |
Smith, Zadie |
Publisher |
Hamish Hamilton |
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When Howard Belsey's oldest son Jerome falls for
Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty
Kipps, both families find themselves thrown together,
enacting a cultural and personal war against each other.
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Title |
The accidental |
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Author |
Smith, Ali |
Publisher |
Hamish Hamilton |
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'The Accidental' is the follow-up novel to 'Hotel
World', which was shortlisted for the Booker and Orange
prizes in 2002. Who is the stranger who helps a family
come back together? |
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Title |
The carnivorous carnival |
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Author |
Snicket, Lemony |
Publisher |
Egmont Children's |
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Joining the Caligari Carnival, where people come to see
lions and messy eating, the Baudelaire siblings' story
involves a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, a
wooden plank and Chabo the Wolf Baby |
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Title |
The grim grotto |
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Author |
Snicket, Lemony |
Publisher |
Egmont Children's |
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The eleventh grim installment in the series. Prepare
yourself to hear more about the mystery of VFD than you
really want to know. |
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Title |
The hostile hospital |
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Author |
Snicket, Lemony |
Publisher |
Egmont Children's |
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Fleeing after some time in the deluxe cell for a murder
they did not commit, the Baudelaires hide with the
Volunteers Fighting Disease on their way to the Heimlich
Hospital. Addressed by Babs, the orphans start work with
the near-sighted Hal in the hospital library of records.
York: HarperCollins |
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Title |
The penultimate peril |
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Author |
Snicket, Lemony |
Publisher |
Egmont Children's |
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This is the twelfth book in the popular 'A Series of
Unfortunate Events' range of books. |
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Title |
Fatbag |
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Author |
Strong, Jeremy |
Publisher |
Puffin |
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The new school vacuum cleaner is no ordinary machine.
It's left the playground and is on the streets eating
everything in sight. Soon it will be big enough to carry
out its evil plan - to sweep up humans everywhere and
take over the planet. Who can stop it |
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Title |
Ptolemy's gate |
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Author |
Stroud, Jonathan |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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'Ptolemy's Gate' is the climax of the 'Bartimaeus
Trilogy' in which a long-standing conspiracy comes to
fruition and Bartimaeus, Nathaniel and Kitty face a
final enemy which threatens them all. |
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Title |
The golem's eye |
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Author |
Stroud, Jonathan |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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Two years have passed since the events of 'The Amulet of
Samarkand' and the young magician Nathaniel is rising
fast through the government ranks. But his career is
suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises.
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Title |
The unrivalled spangles |
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Author |
Wallace, Karen |
Publisher |
Simon & Schuster |
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A tale of love, ambition, deceit and danger, played out
under the big top of a Victorian circus. This is the
story of Ellen, the ringmaster's daughter, as she
struggles to break with tradition and get an education -
as well as hide her sister's secret romance with a rival
circus owner's son. |
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Title |
Love lessons |
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Author |
Wilson, Jacqueline |
Publisher |
Doubleday |
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Jacqueline Wilson presents a moving exploration of what
happens when a school student falls in love with a
teacher. |
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Title |
A prison diary |
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Author |
FF8282, |
Publisher |
Macmillan |
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Told with humour and compassion, this one-volume edition
of Jeffrey Archer's three bestselling diaries is an
important document which reveals the truth behind the
UK's prison system through |
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