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The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
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deserves to be a global best-seller!
This book tells the true story of one young woman’s determination to hold out for true love in the 21st century. She shuns both traditional Asian…
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Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction by Alison MacLeod

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction

In Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction you will meet lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. You will discover modern life laid bare and the literature of the past re-imagined. You will travel from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast. You will be in Ikea one minute and in the Hayward Gallery the next…
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Each story in this collection captures something of what it is to love and be loved – passion, joy, fear, heartache and despair. And when that love is lost, either slowly through illness, as in 'Dirty Weekend', or abruptly in the July 7 bombings in 'so that the land was darkened', the stories achieve a haunted poignancy seldom found in novel form. Truly inspirational writing.

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