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Print: $19.50 A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP is a novel about post-war Spain and the transition of the 1970's. It is a novel about love, revenge and obsession. A 'war orphan' is on his way to meet his exiled Uncle who is coming back to Spain as a result of the amnesty granted by the first free government. On the way he meets an itinerant farmer. Their conversations and memories lead to a surprising change in the young man's plans.
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Print: $22.99 The novel is set against the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. The invasion marks the end of the British Empire and the reversal of all accepted values. The social order which has long been established in Hong Kong begins to disintegrate. The main characters engage on a journey of self discovery as their world falls apart. Their once apparently happy and perfect lives are shown to be shallow, hopeless façades behind which there is nothing but failure, self-denial and cowardice.
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Print: $16.94 Download: $7.76 Leah Elisabeth Browne has died. The novel starts with the funeral where we are given the character of Leah, the maiden aunt, as seen by her relatives. Her house has been left in her will to one Frank Hawe, a person no one has ever heard of. Slowly, the story of her love affair with Frank is told, along with the extraordinary life of her brother and his beautiful young wife. It is nothing like the rest of the family could ever have imagined.
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Print: $25.50 A novel set against the failed coup d'etat in Spain of 1981. It follows the lives of a cross section of society in the three months leading up to the coup, and the week following.
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Print: $32.50 SOONER THAN GOLD is based loosely on the true story of Eliza Alicia Lynch who, in 1848, at the age of 13, fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine; who at 18 was the highest-paid and most sought-after courtesan in all of Paris; who, as mistress of the dictator, Francisco Solano López, became Regent of Paraguay and the richest woman in the world. Together with López, she involved that country in a bloody war, the result of which was total disaster.
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Print: $18.95 A dead body is found on a deserted road, the body has been cut into small pieces and abandoned in a suitcase; it has been so badly mutilated that it is unrecognisable.
The police believe that the victim could be a junkie or a whore since nobody has bothered to report her missing. They visit the local convent where the nuns are known to have been working with the prostitutes.
As the investigation develops, we witness a struggle for power in the convent. Father Moses is sent to investigate the disappearance of one of the nuns and as he unravels the tangled relationships within the convent he begins a journey of self-discovery which ends when he has to decide whether he is to be Jesus or Judas.
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Print: $23.86 TRIVIAL PURSUIT - Beef Tea and Marlowe Philips are incompetent private detectives who are on a case that takes them through the USA, Mexico and finally to Spain. They are following the dangerous criminals Wilma and Lance, who are, in turn, trying to kill them. They run across some strange characters, like Boll Weevil, the Texan peanut farmer, Fat Al, the Mexican drugs baron, or Tobias Jugg, the captain of a tramp steamer, and several celebrities, such as Bob Dylan, Edgar Broughton and Captain Beefheart, together with a weird menagerie of animals. As they journey on they reminisce, talking about and criticising or praising such things as varied as cricket averages, Play-doh, Marcel Proust and Roger Whittaker. The mystery ends with a modern enactment of the last scenes of Hamlet.
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Hardcover Print: $25.74 GALICIA BY AND BEYOND ME is a book of illustrations and poems based loosely on the myths and legends of Galicia, in the North West of Spain.
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