Results for: books tagged ‘Independence’
Salt: Earl Lovelace
Further than the Furthest Thing: Zinnie Harris
On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find ... More
Lizard: Banana Yoshimoto
In these six stories Yoshimoto masterfully explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. Her characters ... More
Founding Brothers: Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers is an illuminating, Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. During the 1790s ... More
War of the End of the World: Mario Vargas Llosa
The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story ... More
Aunt Margaret's Lover: Mavis Cheek
Aunt Margaret, surrogate mother to teenage Saskia, has just waved goodbye to her niece. She has sent her to Canada for a year. Now, buoyed up by an unexpected legacy ... More
Three Men on a Plane: Mavis Cheek
Pamela Pryor's son has, at last, left home. She feels free but also strangely restless. There have been three significant men in her life - Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, a ... More
The Pope's Daughter: Caroline P. Murphy
Felice della Rovere witnessed Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. She saw her father Pope Julius II lay the foundation stone for New Saint Peter's. And she was immortalized by ... More
Yesterday's Houses: Mavis Cheek
When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house and what she experiences there - including the stately bathroom ... More
That Neutral Island: Clair Wills
When the world descended into war in 1939, a few European countries were able to remain neutral. Of the neutral states, none was more controversial than Ireland. The Irish premier ... More
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