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  Mad King Robin - The Mad Shall...

  James Vella-Bardon

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  "Vella-Bardon has what it takes to become a literary giant" - Yorkshire Evening Post 
  A historical thriller, a gripping tale that you will not put aside until it is finished. 
  Scotland, 1306 – after slaying his lifelong rival to the throne in a chapel, Robert the Bruce is crowned king of Scotland at Scone. Yet even his own wife and countrymen laugh at his foolishness, calling him Mad King Robin. For his crowning has enraged the English king, whose army destroys the Bruce’s forces at Methven. The Bruce suddenly finds himself an excommunicated outlaw within his own realm, fleeing his enemies with a handful of loyal men. 
  During the eight years since Methven, the Bruce’s wife Elizabeth de Burgh has hated every day of her captivity by the English. Rumour and gossip reach her that the Bruce is out of hiding and reclaiming Scotland. Yet she has also heard that the English king is marching north, at the head of the largest English army ever assembled. 
  For 1314 is indeed the year when the Bruce, long emerged from hiding, has crushed his enemies and taken every castle in Scotland except Stirling. His rise, inspired by a mere spider, is scarcely believable. Yet it will take all of the Bruce’s ingenuity and insane bravery to attempt to end the English hold on Scotland. The last fight for his people’s future beckons along the Bannockburn, but can the Bruce’s army overcome impossible odds to win freedom? 
  Mad King Robin is a wonderful, riveting page turner, which tells the stirring tale of a nation’s desperate struggle against a much larger, brutal oppressor.

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  Rosewater and Soda Bread - A Novel

  Marsha Mehran

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  More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Café, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice to the once-sleepy village. 
   
   
   
  But when a young woman with a dark secret literally washes up on Clew Bay Beach, the sisters' world is once again turned upside down. With pale skin and webbed hands, the girl is otherworldly, but her wounds tell a more earthly (and graver) story—one that sends the strict Catholic town into an uproar. The Aminpours rally around the newcomer, but each sister must also contend with her own transformation—Marjan tests her feelings for love with a dashing writer, Bahar takes on a new spiritual commitment with the help of Father Mahoney, and Layla matures into a young woman when she and her boyfriend, Malachy, step up their hot and heavy relationship. 
   
   
   
  Filled with mouthwatering recipes and enchanting details of life in Ireland, Rosewater and Soda Bread is infused with a lyrical warmth that radiates from the Aminpour family and their big-hearted Italian landlady, Estelle, to the whole of Ballinacroagh—and the world beyond.

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  Short Stories Set in Boston -...

  Washington Irving, Nathaniel...

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  In the small state of Massachusetts sits its capital, Boston.  Famed seat of learning, of culture, of history, and a beacon for the ages.    
   
  Here, in this volume, authors of the stature of Willa Cather, Washington Irving, H P Lovecraft and more set carefully crafted characters into narratives set in this glistening city in ways that trouble, explore and bring new understanding as to why this city is such a draw for authors and their stories down the ages.  
   
  1 - Stories Set in Boston - An Introduction 
  2 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  3 - David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - A Wagner Matinee by Willa Catha 
  5 - Pickman's Model by H P Lovecraft 
  6 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 
  7 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin

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  Stories - Conversations On A...

  Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker,...

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  Conversations happen everywhere.  A few words to pass the time or a detailed examination of views.  But on trains they seem to be different.  Speaking whilst in motion gives the whole discussion a momentum that often takes us into uncharted territory.

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  Swann's Way

  Marcel Proust

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  Swann's Way by Marcel Proust is a timeless exploration of memory, love, and society. The first volume of In Search of Lost Time, it introduces readers to the narrator’s vivid recollections of childhood, the iconic madeleine moment, and the poignant story of Charles Swann’s passionate but turbulent love affair. Proust’s masterful prose weaves themes of desire, jealousy, and the passage of time into a richly detailed portrait of life and longing.

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  David Copperfield

  Charles Dickens

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  ""Alone among his contemporaries, Charles Dickens seems to possess that instinctive sympthaty with whatever is human and humane which is the fundamental condition of genial and varied characterization. … in individualities which make us in love with our kind, he is unapproached."" —The Atlantic Monthly, May 1867
   
  The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery—or, as it's now more commonly known, David Copperfield—is considered one of literature's quintessential bildungsroman novels.
   
  Originally published in serial installments stretching from May 1849 through November 1850, the tale follows the titular David Copperfield throughout the course of his life in Victorian England. In parts a coming-of-age story, satire, and autobiographical novel, Dickens called David Copperfield ""a very complicated weaving of truth and invention""—as well as named it his favorite of his own works."

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