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Never Let Me Go

Kathy H, a carer for donors, reminisces about her time at Hailsham, a private institution where she spent her formative years, and her friends.

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The Lincoln Lawyer

Mickey Haller is a criminal defense lawyer who works from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, mostly with decidedly guilty clients. Then a very high-paying job drops in his lap, where the client insists he is innocent...

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Under the Skin

Isserley drives around in her car, and picks up big muscular hitch-hikers on the highways around Scotland. She talks to them, understanding their lives, where they are headed and whether they have families and relatives who will miss them when she is done with them.

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A Gentleman in Moscow

A Russian nobleman is sentenced to life imprisonment in a luxurious hotel in Moscow. But the indomitable Count takes his circumstances in his stride, never losing his spirit or deep humanity.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

A study into how we live, and how to be better at living, set around a narrative of a father-son motorcycle trip across the American Northwest.

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The Turn of the Screw

A young governess is sent to a remote estate to care for two beautiful children, who are oddly distant and wholly disconcerting...

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Chocolat

A fable with magic, passion and chocolate, and how it all comes together to awaken a straight-laced village in the South of France.

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The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)

In a far future universe where people travel by thought, a barely articulate menial survivor from an inter-planetary vessel escapes jail to wreak havoc, and change the world...

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

A delightful and charming story set in the aftermath of WW2, presented as a collection of correspondences between Juliet Ashton, an author, and the residents of the Channel island of Guernsey

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

An imagining of the story behind the enigmatic eponymous girl from Vermeer's painting, the dutch Mona Lisa.

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Eileen

For subdued Eileen, life holds little charm. Dead-end job. An abusive, alcoholic father. But when the vivacious Rebecca joins her workplace, the doors of her imagination open...

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Out

Following a random act of violence, four japanese women get embroiled in the cover up of the crime, and fight to contain the fallout and maintain their own sanity...

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