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1) Arcadia
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a...
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English
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Art dealer Jonathan Argyll has found a buyer for an 18th century painting of the death of Socrates. However when he arrives in Rome to deliver the painting, the purchaser, Mr. Muller seems disinterested in it and asks Jonathan to arrange its resale. But if he is no longer interested in the painting-- someone else is-enough to commit murder to possess it.
4) Stone's fall
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English
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This is the story of John Stone, a financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone died in a fall from a window at his London home. This search for the truth plays out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance and the arms race....
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking.
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