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My Cousin Rachel

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Ambrose Ashley, Philip’s cousin, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage, racked by suspicion at the hints in Ambrose’s letters, and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin’s widow with hatred in his heart. The author also wrote “Rebecca”.
Author : My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, Mel Gibson
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1035398
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

A Woman of Substance

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

This is the first in a saga of books about Emma Harte and the business empire she created and ruled.
Author : A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford, Diana Quick
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046314
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

Mapp and Lucia

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

The middle novel of Benson’s six-book “Lucia” series sets Lucia in an English summer resort town.
Author : Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson, Prunella Scales
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046349
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

Porterhouse Blue

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Author : Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe, David Jason
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046357
Price : £8.46
Fiction & Poetry

The Old Man and the Sea

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Part of an original American collected edition of Hemingway’s work, this is the heroic story of an old man and a giant fish that ends in tragedy, yet also on a note of triumphant sadness. It was for this story that Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Author : The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Charlton Heston
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 104642
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

Hold the Dream

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

This is the second in a saga of books about Emma Harte and the business empire she created and ruled. The books have been filmed in a TV mini-series. Other books by Barbara Taylor Bradford include “A Woman of Substance” and “Remember”.
Author : Hold the Dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford, Diana Quick
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046756
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

Under Gemini

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Author : Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher, Imogen Stubbs
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046780
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Jean Brodie is a teacher with advanced and unconventional ideas that put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, as she endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her “set”.
Author : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Geraldine McEwan
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046934
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry

The Rector’s Wife

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Anna has been everything a priest’s wife should be. But when her husband, Peter, fails to gain promotion to Archdeacon, Anna rebels, and tastes independence for the first time since she left university.
Author : The Rector’s Wife by Joanna Trollope, Patricia Hodge
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046942
Price : £6.69
Fiction & Poetry

Love in a Cold Climate

Book Reviewer — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Set in the privileged world of the country house party and the London season, this title is a comedy of English upper-class manners between the wars. With a gallery of characters, it exposes the eccentricities and foibles of the aristocracy.
Author : Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, Prunella Scales
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 1046950
Price : £7.36
Fiction & Poetry