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    The Great Fortune: The Balkan Trilogy 1

    Olivia Manning

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK ‘A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war’ Sarah Waters ‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Observer Autumn, 1939.

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    The Balkan Trilogy

    Olivia Manning

    Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait…

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    Olivia Manning

    Deirdre David

    The first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning, this volume is a timely, expert, and well-researched biography that offers a vivid portrait of wartime survival and of London…

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    School for Love

    Olivia Manning

    Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun.

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    The Rain Forest

    Olivia Manning

    From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy…

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    The Doves of Venus

    Olivia Manning

    Pretty, brave and 18 years old, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her…

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    A Romantic Hero

    Olivia Manning

    This collection contains 14 stories infused with Manning’s precise and consistent wit. They range from haunting studies of lonely childhood to black comedies of domestic deadlock.

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    The Doves of Venus, a Novel

    Olivia Manning

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    The Doves of Venus, a Novel

    Olivia Manning

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    The Levant Trilogy: ‘Fantastically tart and readable’ Sarah Waters

    Olivia Manning

    ‘The finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer’ Anthony Burgess The classic World War II trilogy

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    Friends And Heroes: The Balkan Trilogy 3

    Olivia Manning

    ‘So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid’ - Sunday Times ‘Wonderfully entertaining’ - Observer Athens, 1941.

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    The Levant Trilogy: ‘Fantastically tart and readable’ Sarah Waters

    Olivia Manning

    A World War II trilogy.

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    The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2

    Olivia Manning

    ‘Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised’ - Anthony Burgess ‘Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing’ - Sunday Telegraph…

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    Old Man Goriot

    Honore de Balzac

    Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer’s dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced…

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    Olivia Manning: A Woman at War

    Deirdre David (Professor Emerita of English at Temple University)

    The first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning, this volume is a timely, expert, and well-researched biography that offers a vivid portrait of wartime survival and of London…

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    Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning’s Fictions of War

    Eve Patten

    Olivia Manning (1908-1980) had a reputation as a difficult personality and this has threatened to obscure her reputation as a writer. The book aims to recover Manning’s place as a…

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    School for Love

    Olivia Manning

    Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.

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    Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy

    Olivia Manning

    The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian…

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    Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

    Olivia Manning

    In The Levant Trilogy Olivia Manning returns to the story of the young English couple Guy and Harriet Pringle, last seen, at the end of The Balkan Trilogy, departing from…

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    A Man Called Dad

    Olivia Meredith

    This is more than a book a story to show us what we really miss. When a family is a family there’s unspoken rules. What happens in the house stays…

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    A Man Called Dad

    Olivia Meredith

    This is more than a book a story to show us what we really miss. When a family is a family there’s unspoken rules. What happens in the house stays…

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    A Man Called Dad

    Olivia Meredith

    This is more than a book a story to show us what we really miss. When a family is a family there’s unspoken rules. What happens in the house stays…

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    Falling for a Good Man

    Olivia Sands

    If there's one thing Casey Smithfield dislikes, it's change. That's one reason she loves her life in Sweet Moutain, Montana: no matter what, things tend to remain the same. Except…

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    203 Ways to Drive a Man Wild in Bed

    Olivia St Claire

    Leads readers on a sensuous tour of their partners’ bodies, their own bodies, and the myriad ways in which the two can complement one another to the delight of each…

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    Dating Flirting Tips: Everything You Need to Know to Attract and Get the Man or Woman You Desire

    Olivia Alexander

    For both men and women, dating is not easy. There are no tricks and no easy route to take in order to be able to date the person you want…

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    302 Advanced Techniques for Driving a Man Wild in Bed

    Olivia St Claire

    302 stunning secrets, potent tips and devastating techniques that are accessible, easy-to-follow, and erotic to read. Any woman - whether romantic, shy, innovative or adept - can use this dazzling…

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    Wesley Raccoon: The Old Man in the Houseboat

    Michelle Porter

    This story is about a shy little raccoon who overcomes his fear of meeting new people. Join Wesley Raccoon on his travels through the streets of Amsterdam to find out…

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    Wesley Raccoon: The Old Man in the Houseboat

    Michelle Porter

    This story is about a shy little raccoon who overcomes his fear of meeting new people. Join Wesley Raccoon on his travels through the streets of Amsterdam to find out…

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    Mary Manning: Grace Is Like New Music

    Collaged photo-portraits of creative communities in New York and London

    A comprehensive monograph on New York-based photographer Mary Manning (born 1972), Grace Is Like New Music includes hundreds of images…

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    The Book of the Civilised Man: An English Translation of the Urbanus Magnus of Daniel of Beccles

    Fiona Whelan (Middlebury-CMRS, UK),Olivia Spenser,Francesca Petrizzo

    A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth century…

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    The Book of the Civilised Man: An English Translation of the Urbanus Magnus of Daniel of Beccles

    Fiona Whelan (Middlebury-CMRS, UK),Olivia Spenser,Francesca Petrizzo

    A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth century…

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