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The Slap
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
ISBN: 9781741758207
To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel, now in paperback. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, THE SLAP is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.
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Eats, Shoots And Leaves
Author: Lynne Truss
ISBN: 9780007329069
The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record Lynne Truss as the saviour of the semi-colon and the avenging angel of the apostrophe. A witty, elegant and passionate book that should be on every writer's shelf.
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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Author: Dr. John Gray
ISBN: 9780722528402
The most famous relationships book ever published. The modern classic in trade paperback format has a new cover image revitalised to continue its phenomenal success in new markets. John Gray's Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic and in print since 1993, this book has helped men and women realise how different they really are, as well as understand how to communicate their needs in such a way to prevent conflict and to increase intimacy. This is a book that assists all of us to: . build lasting, loving male-female relationships; . learn how to read moods and respond effectively; . get what we need without seeming to nag or bully; . understand our partners, colleagues or friends better than ever before.
Haiku for the Single Girl
Author: Beth Griffenhagen
ISBN: 9780732294311
A celebration of the single girl's life told in uproarious and uplifting haiku and illustrations guaranteed to make any woman of any age, single or otherwise, laugh out loud and forget her troubles. Unsolicited relationship advice from relatives, disastrous dates, men who wear thumb rings, and the moments of deep satisfaction when you realise that you can do whatever you want with your time - it's all here in a collection of incisive haiku and deliciously cheeky drawings that superbly and charmingly capture the life and times of being a single woman.
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The Broken Shore
Author: Peter Temple
ISBN: 9781921656774
Before Rai Sarris, Cashin was different. He moved more quickly then, he was less thoughtful, less easily spooked. But there are consequences when you've come that close to dying.
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The Kabul Beauty School
Author: Deborah Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780733621857
Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives smack in the middle of the urban insanity that is Kabul. In The Kabul Beauty School, Debbie tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who study and work there. Debbie went to Afghanistan with nothing but a desire to help and her skills as a beautician. When she arrived, she learned that the once-proud tradition of Afghan beauty salons had been nearly destroyed by the Taliban. With her knowledge of beauty and enterprise, she opened the first salon in Kabul that actually trained local women to become beauticians one of the few ways a woman can support herself and her family. And it is there that she made some of the closest friends of her life. The Kabul Beauty School provides a joyful haven for Debbie and the other women. Woven through the book are the stories of Debbie's students there is the newlywed who must fake her own virginity, the 12-year-old bride who has been sold into marriage to pay her family s debts, the brilliant former medic who has not left her house for thirty years. All these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to The Kabul Beauty School, where, along with Debbie Rodriguez herself, they learn the art of perms, friendship, and freedom.
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The Bronze Horseman - Gift Edition
Author: Paullina Simons
ISBN: 9780007904679
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. The routine of their hard, impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.
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