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5 books

1. 

   The Eyre Affair

   Author: Jasper Fforde

   There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without squat, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trait of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre herself has been plucked from the novel of the same name, and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. She also has to find time to halt the ongoing Crimean conflict, persuade the man she lov

   in Fantasy/ Science Fiction/ Horror

   • Published on 2001
   • 384 pages

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   Submitted August 15, 2022

2. 

   Shades of Grey

   Author: Jasper Fforde

   Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity ... It is the new world of comic and creative genius Jasper Fforde.

   in Fantasy/ Science Fiction/ Horror

   • Published on 2010
   • 435 pages

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   Submitted August 14, 2022

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   The Story of San Michele

   Author: Axel Munthe

   This story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and earthquake disasters. It was during this period that he came across the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele, perched high above the glittering Bay of Naples on Capri. With the help of Mastro Nicola and his three sons, and with only a charcoal sketch roughly drawn on a garden wall to guide them, Munthe devoted

   in Non-Fiction

   • Published on 2010
   • 300 pages

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   Submitted August 14, 2022

4. 

   Life After Life

   Author: Kate Atkinson

   What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want t

   in General Fiction

   • Published on 2013
   • 624 pages

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   Submitted August 14, 2022

5. 

   Any Human Heart

   Author: William Boyd

   Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in o

   in General Fiction

   • Published on 2017
   • 512 pages

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   Submitted August 14, 2022