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Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which
the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities.
Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a
fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate
nature in the interests of survival.
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The Eights
(Paperback)
Joanna Miller
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R395
R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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They knew they were changing history.
They didn’t know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s
most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams
of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into
neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all
walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming
friendship.
Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her
brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place.
Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees
Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and her own friends – for the
first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but
fears they won’t be enough to distract her from her memories of the war
years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar,
arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone – even The Eights
– if she is to succeed.
But Oxford’s dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is
still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great
War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this
tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important
than ever.
The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood,
self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a
world that is forever changed.
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The Lonely Ones
(Hardcover)
Hakan Nesser; Translated by Sarah Death
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R577
R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
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'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' Guardian A trip behind the
Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . . It begins in
1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala, Sweden. Different
circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the
course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip
through Eastern Europe changes everything, and when their time at
Uppsala University is over it also signals the end of something
else. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at
the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And
chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala
students died thirty-five years before. Detective Inspector Gunnar
Barbarotti takes on this ominous case of history repeating itself,
and is forced to confront an increasingly grave reality. The Lonely
Ones is the fourth novel of Hakan Nesser's quintet about Inspector
Gunnar Barbarotti.
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