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18 Cards in this Set
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Thea Astley
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The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
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1930 island off Q coast - man goes berserk - violence mirrors brutality of Aus life - atrocities of whites 7 blacks so ingrained they are unquestioned.
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Michael Dibdin
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Back to Bologna
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Aurelia Zen
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Thea AStley
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An Item from the Late News
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Amy Witting
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The Visit
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Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy Sayers
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A Presumption of Death
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1939 Lady Peter Whimsey - detective husband on secret mission abroad. Murder of a female farm worker - investigates.
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Shirley Hazzard
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The transit of Venus
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@ Aussie girls, Caro and Grace in London staying with Grace's fiance's parents. Can't remember the rest!
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Oliver Goldsmith
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The Vicar of Wakefield
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Dr Primrose, vicar, loses his fortune and idyllic country lifestyle is ruined. Moves w wife & 6 kids to live impoverished, on Squire THornhill''s estate. Warm humour, social satire. Central themes - Christianit;y, justice, family.
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Michael Kimmelman
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The Accidental Masterpiece (On the Art of Life and Vice Versa)
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Art provides clues on how to live our lives more fully - variety of art forms from a girl in Auschwitz leaving one piece of encapsulating art to an explorer mapping new territories. Many examples.
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Dorothy L Sayers & Jill Paton-Walsh
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Thrones, Dominations
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Samuel Pepys
The Unequalled Self |
Claire Tomalin
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Biog of Pepys. Covers childhood, work for Navy, relationship with Lord Montague, marraige to Elizabeth, Great Fire etc.
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Russell Banks
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The Darling
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Liberia - Hannah Musgrove marries Liberian when on the run from FBI, 3 sons, chimpanzee sanctuary; caught up in civil war - ?Charles Taylor/Prince Johnson/Pres Doe - loses sons & husband and chimps.
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Sir Thomas Mallory
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The Death of Arthur
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Myths of the knights of the round table
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Jane Austen
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Sense & Sensibility
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Thomas Hardy
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The mayor of Casterbridge
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Marcel Proust
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Remembrance of things past
The Budding Grove; Swann; Swann in Love; |
Also called, In search of lost time
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Patricia Hodge
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Elizabeth
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Monica Ali
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Brick Lane
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Family living in Bethnal Green, immigrants from Pak. How the wife learns to adjust to Br society
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Edith Wharton
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Summer
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