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A Girl’s Own War
A Girl's Own War
£13.95In 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
£15.95NEW 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
£13.95An 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
£13.95Welcome 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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Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
Frances Creighton: Found and Lost
£12.95Unable 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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Mrs Woodbine’s Prejudices
Mrs Woodbine's Prejudices
£13.95ANOTHER 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
Princess Brainy
£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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The Attraction of Cuba
The Attraction of Cuba
£13.95Chris 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 Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
The Hopeful Traveller: And Other Stories
£12.95WRY 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 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. […]
