Secrets and Lies
Do liars make the best storytellers? Do secrets make the best stories? Secrets and Lies is a series of eight modern classics with deception at their heart ...
The Books
- The Observations by Jane Harris
- The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- Resistance by Owen Sheers
- The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Illywhacker by Peter Carey
- Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Secrets and Lies
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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
A grief-stricken man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a strange and intense journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions and unexpected love ...-
- Paperback, £7.99
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Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with ...-
- Paperback, £7.99
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Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he ...-
- Paperback, £7.99
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The Observations by Jane Harris
Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks ...-
- Paperback, £7.99
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEIn the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and ...-
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Resistance by Owen Sheers
In the months afterwards all of the women, at some point, said they’d known the men were leaving the valley ... 1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed ...-
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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Costa Book of the Year, a story of a life blighted by ignorance and terrible mistreatment, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.-
- Paperback, £7.99
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The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Set in 1950s San Francisco, Andrew Sean Greer’s sensual, heartbreaking love story about how you can never truly know the ones you love.-
- Paperback, £7.99
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