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City of Spades
Colin MacInnes
London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien motherland. Liberal England is about to discover the legacy of Empire. And when Montgomery Pew, assistant welfare officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune, re...
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Alfie
Bill Naughton
Alfie’s not really a bad guy. It’s just that he has this overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that ‘birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There’s Ruby - ‘A lust box in beautiful condition’; Clare - ‘You’re ...
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Absolute Beginners
Colin MacInnes
A Twentieth Century Classic
London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless – the absolute beginners – were creating a world as different as they dared from t...
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Becoming Madam Mao
Anchee Min
This is the epic tale of one woman's life - of her journey from poverty to notoriety, from the slums to the Forbidden City. Hers is a story of defiance and determination, politics and passion - this is her quest to become a heroine.
Becoming Madame Mao is a powerful novel tracing the...
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One Foot Wrong
Sofie Laguna
Nominated for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction
Unlike anything you will have read before...
Meet Hester. A child of dark beginnings and few words. Living a painfully sheltered existence forced upon her by reclusive parent...
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