Books from Sceptre
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Time To Dance
By Melvyn BraggA lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a youngh girl. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destructive kernel of jealousy.
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Back in the Day: A Memoir
By Melvyn BraggThis is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at fifteen yet won a scholarship to Oxford.
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The Silken Net
By Melvyn BraggCharting their life together, this powerful novel probes with exceptional acuity the heights and tortured depths of a bond that becomes a shackle.
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Without a City Wall
By Melvyn BraggDisillusioned with his successful life in London, Richard Godwin moves to a remote Cumberland village in search of a more fulfilling existence.
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Grace and Mary
By Melvyn Bragg'It is a gem' Independent 'I loved it' Pat Barker Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart, and Mary, the ...
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Strangeland
By Tracey Emin'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London.
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
By Chris CleaveInstant New York Times bestseller Evening Standard top ten bestseller iBooks BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 Irish Times summer reading pick 'A cracker' Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016 'His best book to date' Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016 ...
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New Erotica for Feminists
By Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona TaylorHe calls me into his office and closes the door... to promote me.
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A Solstice
By Ted HughesA Solstice
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Go the F**k to Sleep
By Adam Mansbach, Ricardo CortésThis is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.
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A Man Called Ove: The life-affirming bestseller that will brighten your day
By Fredrik BackmanFONT +1 Perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; Ruth Hogan's The Keeper of Lost Things and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, A Man Called Ove is one of the best-loved and most life-affirming novels of the ...
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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
By Fredrik BackmanEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally?
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A Man Called Ove
By Fredrik BackmanThe million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for...
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Britt Marie Was Here
By Fredrik BackmanThe number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances.
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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography
By Joan BakewellThe defence attorney, William Kunstler, was himself charged with contempt by Judge Julius Hoffman, frantic to impose order on his turbulent courtroom. Among the seven, those who called themselves Yippies – the Youth International Party, ...
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Turner - A Life
By James HamiltonWithhis aversion to high, light colouring, Eagles rapped James Baker Pyne, whose Richmond, Yorkshire was from the white school ... If nature always wore this aspect we should seldom stir out, and be tempted even within doors to shut the ...
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Gentlemen of the Road
By Michael ChabonTwo wandering adventurers are variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the great medieval Jewish empire of ...
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Around You, Your House and A Catechism
By William StaffordMaking the rounds with her veterinarian grandfather helps Junie Mae come to terms with her envious feelings towards another wealthier little girl.
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Two about Music
By William StaffordTwo about Music
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This is the Country
By Wall William WallTHIS IS THE COUNTRY is a hard-hitting, tense and deeply moving novel that sets power and corruption against the fragile defences of love, friendship and family.