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A Girl’s Own War
A Girl's Own War
£14.95In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death. But hang on!―Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and Baron Julius von Stulpnagel were living together in Berlin, trying to […]
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A Sin of Omission
A Sin of Omission
£18.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust. Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, […]
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Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus
£14.95An hilarious caper through Regency Bath – wherein justice and bigotry collide with a bump Following Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle, this is second adventure in The Gay Street Chronicles, in which our hero returns to bath be-pained by love and confusion, only to learn how great is the suffering of others. At the end […]
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Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflé
£14.95Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles! When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry. Enter gay hero Bellerophon “Belle” Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath’s original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire. Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, […]
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Cigars Occasionally
Cigars Occasionally
£13.95A FLORIDA POLICE MYSTERY FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS World-weary Detective Jake Miller has seen just about everything that Florida’s Pinellas County can throw at him, but just as he’s wondering whether to take early retirement – and maybe get a divorce – in favour of a new life and a new partner, a series of incidents […]
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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
£13.95Unable to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Londoner Michael Roberts tries to find comfort in memories of another time and another place when he was in love for the first time. But that first time was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and in […]
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Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
£12.95Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun’s answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician’s son? Will Musa’s friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram’s attack on their village? The life of the underprivileged, […]
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Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
£22.95On her deathbed, Charles Dickens’s wife asked her daughter to give his letters to the British Museum “so the world may know he loved me once”. That the world might doubt it is not a surprise. In his later years Dickens built a wall in their bedroom to keep her out, forced her to visit […]
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Mrs Woodbine’s Prejudices
Mrs Woodbine's Prejudices
£55.00ANOTHER BRILLIANT NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Professor Arthur Lash, born Artur Lasch in pre-war Austria, takes his American wife and their three sons back to Vienna, in 1960, to see how well his father is rebuilding his life after regaining the factory stolen from him when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. For Arthur, […]
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Mustard Seed Itinerary
Mustard Seed Itinerary
£13.95Men of Talent Sought! Only Superior Persons Need Apply! A brilliant comic novel from EnvelopeBooks. Political satire—half Daoist wisdom, half Lewis Carroll. A modern-day Chinese schoolteacher falls into an alcoholic sleep and dreams himself back a thousand years, scaling the heights of the imperial civil service—and then finding himself stranded. All roads […]
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Princess Brainy: A Filmscript for Fairies
Princess Brainy: A Filmscript for Fairies
£12.95Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a […]
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Princess Brr-Rainy
Princess Brr-Rainy
£12.95Princess Raine is a bright kid―a very bright kid. And that’s her problem. No one likes smart kids, especially when they’re unaware of the effect they have on other people. Even her Dad (that’s the king) finds her too much. To make things worse, she has two funny, silly, younger brothers―twins―both as dumb as a […]
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Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
Secrets of the Four-Chambered Heart
£14.95AN IMPORTANT NEW NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In late 1994, The New York Times sends a group of American journalists and Rwandan guides to a small village in Northern Rwanda to cover the atrocities that have killed nearly a million during the spring and summer. Some know each other already; others become acquainted as the assignment […]
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The Attraction of Cuba
The Attraction of Cuba
£14.95Chris Hilton went to Havana in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England―and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of legality. There was always a risk of their moneymaking schemes […]
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The Fine Young Men of Mexico
The Fine Young Men of Mexico
£14.95ANOTHER FINE NOVEL FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Gallo left México when he was twenty-five and never looked back. Pushing fifty, he now returns for a reunion with his old school friends in Mérida, and finds they’ve barely moved on from the dysfunctional no-hopers they were in the past. In the course of an alcohol-fuelled weekend marked […]
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The Green Man: A Novel
The Green Man: A Novel
£15.95After humiliating a fellow inquisitor at a trumped-up witch trial in Northern Italy, Brother Jacobus of Venna has his intellectual curiosity piqued by rumours of strange events in Northern England. In defiance of the cardinals in Avignon, Jacobus travels to Berwick where he finds a land in disarray, beset by Scottish raiders, eccentric Franciscan friars […]
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The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
£14.95WRY TALES FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Dusseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about-and told by-single women who have put the past behind […]
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The Lost Woman
The Lost Woman
£14.95When the Nazis arrest Nicole Cassin’s parents and seize their art gallery in Paris in 1941, Nicole vows revenge and joins the Resistance. Years later, living in New York, she is haunted by her losses and hires an art historian to find her family’s stolen paintings, among which is a portrait of her mother by […]
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The Prince and the Baker’s Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children
The Prince and the Baker's Daughter: Five Stories for Five Children
£7.95Should bakers’ daughter want to marry princes? (Lucinda’s father didn’t think so.) Should kings and queens let princesses play with dragons? Should Orpheus have made so much of a fuss about his wife? Should Ben rely on Magic Eye creatures to help him find his mother in Brazil? Should Father Christmas retire and let us […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
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The Very Annoying Jew
The Very Annoying Jew
£15.95COMEDY FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Award-winning TV producer David Britton is enraged with the world, but much of the world is enraged with him too. Especially when he screws up the deal to sell the media company that’s driving him crazy. But that’s not the half of it. He has offended most of his staff, and his […]
