Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
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Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France's feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up...
Chronicle of the Murdered House
Lucio Cardoso, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson
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Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle...
Crampton Hodnet
Louis de Bernieres and Barbara Pym
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Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as...
First Love
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Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of...
Gods and Angels
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A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a...
Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall 1792-1793
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Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Cornwall...
We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered...
epistolary novel
Big Eyes (2014)
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In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) achieves unbelievable fame...
Unforgettable (2017)
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Tessa Connover (Heigl) is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David...
Magic (1978)
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Corky (Anthony Hopkins), a failed magician, adopts a new ventriloquist act with an abrasive dummy...