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9788493971908 | Azteca Difusora Del Libros S L, September 10, 2012, cover price $29.95

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Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers

Hardcover:

9780786703494 | Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers

Paperback:

9781609450861 | Europa Editions Inc, March 27, 2012, cover price $16.00
9780786704675 | 2 edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1997), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745153193 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $54.95

Prebinding:

9781417644872 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $22.05 | About this edition: Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers

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Product Description: In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr...read more

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9781609450564, titled "The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress" | 1 edition (Europa Editions Inc, August 30, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold.

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9788493829551, titled "La excursi¢n" | Azteca Difusora Del Libros S L, February 28, 2011, cover price $29.95

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9788493780951 | Azteca Difusora Del Libros S L, September 13, 2010, cover price $29.95

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In a remote cottage in Wales, two urban couples are spending their holiday with an idealistic owner and his protege. At the beginning everything is idyllic, but catastrophe lurks behind every tree, and as the holiday continues their relationships start to show their cracks, culminating in a tragic finale.

Paperback:

9780141048307 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $17.00

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9781842836897 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, October 1, 2003), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: In a remote cottage in Wales, two urban couples are spending their holiday with an idealistic owner and his protege.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781842835654 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, August 30, 2004), cover price $64.95

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Product Description: With an outstanding introductory essay, one of the greatest living English novelists has assembled her writings, essays and reviews about the theatre to provide a highly individual view of contemporary theatre and actors.

Hardcover:

9780826487872 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: With an outstanding introductory essay, one of the greatest living English novelists has assembled her writings, essays and reviews about the theatre to provide a highly individual view of contemporary theatre and actors.

Product Description: "A thoroughly enjoyable horror experience...totally convincing." AUBERON WAUGH "Extraordinary...full of surprises, full of truth." EVENING STANDARD "At thirteen there is very little you can expect to salvage from loving someone.....read more

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9781845590017 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 30, 2005), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "At thirteen there is very little you can expect to salvage from loving someone.

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9781842839898 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 30, 2005), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "A thoroughly enjoyable horror experience.

Product Description: 'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.' Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions - more or less - while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people...read more

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9781842839164 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, October 30, 2004), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Anne is waiting to be summoned to America by her fiance Gerald when she meets William.

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9781842838464 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, October 30, 2004), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: 'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.

Bainbridge takes special pleasure in human unpredictability. She shows that people are hardly ever what they appear.

Hardcover:

9780807610114 | George Braziller, February 1, 1981, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Invited to tour Russia under government sponsorship, four British artists defy their officious Russian interpreter and guide, balk at their restricted movement, worry about lost luggage, and agonize over the disappearance of one of their group

Paperback:

9780349116099 | New edition (Gardners Books, December 4, 2003), cover price $17.25 | About this edition: Bainbridge takes special pleasure in human unpredictability.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781842835821 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, May 30, 2003), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781842831816 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, July 30, 2002), cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer.

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Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family with his constant sponging. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything.

Paperback:

9780349116136 | Gardners Books, July 3, 2003, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget.
9780786702589 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1995), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Fleeing conscription in the Austrian army, young Hitler heads for the Liverpool home of his brother Alois, where he arrives unexpected and unwelcomed and finds himself involved in a nightmarish intrigue

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Product Description: It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director...read more

Hardcover:

9781856952644 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $32.50

Paperback:

9780753151204 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 2000), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754055303 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754003182 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, July 1, 1999), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Told with black humour, this is the story of a group of no-hope rep actors in Liverpool in the mid 50s, doing Peter Pan.

Recreates the complex and fascinating relationship between acclaimed literary genius Dr. Samuel Johnson and his benefactress, Mrs. Thrale, as observed by Mrs. Thrale's daughter Queeney.

Hardcover:

9780715629239 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.95
9780786707737 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Recreates the complex and fascinating relationship between acclaimed literary genius Dr.

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9780786709823 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, July 14, 2002), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A brilliant and compelling historical novel recreates the complex and fascinating relationship between acclaimed literary genius Dr.
9780786239580 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Recreates the complex and fascinating relationship between acclaimed literary genius Dr.

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9780754054894 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, May 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Beryl Bainbridge's latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754007777 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Beryl Bainbridge's latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters.

Product Description: Contains five short stories by Beryl Bainbridge, including "The Bottle Factory Outing".

Paperback:

9780786701469 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1994), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The basics-only, going nowhere lives of Freda and scruffy Brenda, the only two English women in a London bottle factory full of Italian immigrants, are shattered during a Sunday picnic

CD/Spoken Word:

9781842832318 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, September 30, 2002), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Contains five short stories by Beryl Bainbridge, including "The Bottle Factory Outing".

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781860426582 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, February 1, 2000), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory and their nights in a dismal bedsitter.

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Product Description: "Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better...she has succeeded with a daring leap of empathetic imagination in penetrating the minds of Captain Scott and the four men he led to their deaths in Antarctica in 1912." EVENING STANDARD "Bainbridge's account of the horribly familiar story is both fresh and sure-footed...read more

Hardcover:

9780745126500 | Large print edition (Chivers, May 1, 1995), cover price $25.01 | About this edition: This extraordinary account of Captain Scott's tragically ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, achieves the apparently impossible: Beryl Bainbridge's powers of expression and ability to evoke an emotion or perception with almost tangible force are displayed to a hitherto unseen degree.
9780786700714 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1, 1994), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole

Paperback:

9780786702077 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1995), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the doomed South Pole expedition of Captain Scott, in a fictionalized account of courage, human endurance, and suspense.
9780786203109 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This extraordinary account of Captain Scott's tragically ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, achieves the apparently impossible: Beryl Bainbridge's powers of expression and ability to evoke an emotion or perception with almost tangible force are displayed to a hitherto unseen degree.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781860429101 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, May 30, 2002), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better .

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781860428128 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, February 28, 2004), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: "Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better.

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Product Description: If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to call, she was sure that love and escape would follow. But Nellie knew different - the boy would have to go.

Paperback:

9780786703227 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1996, cover price $8.95

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9781842831694 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, October 1, 2001), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: If Liverpool, 1944, was grim for Rita and her two aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was carefree and rich - she'd seen it in all the films.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781860426100 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 30, 2002), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies.

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Product Description: Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life, to socialise with some of his friends (the discreet ones)...read more

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9780754007333 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, January 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress.

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Product Description: A novel in which a man thinks back to the past, remembers how his sister's nightly meetings with an ex-German POW on a the beach caused family upset and tension, and wonders, some twenty years later, whether time distorts or clarifies the events of the past...read more

Paperback:

9780786706358 | Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In an English seaside village just after the Second World War, a seemingly ordinary family in a state of claustrophobic tension seethes with the violence that lies beneath so much of the surface of life

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754006749 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 2001), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A novel in which a man thinks back to the past, remembers how his sister's nightly meetings with an ex-German POW on a the beach caused family upset and tension, and wonders, some twenty years later, whether time distorts or clarifies the events of the past.

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A compelling novel based on a real-life Victorian murder case chronicles the sudden and brutal killing of his wife of nearly thirty years by Victorian clergyman John Selby Watson, the sensational trial that followed, and the devastating impact of the crime. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780517664322, titled "Watson's Apology" | Reprint edition (Outlet, February 1, 1988), cover price $1.99 | also contains De-bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley | About this edition: After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church.
9780070032545, titled "Watson's Apology" | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tells a story based on a true Victorian murder case and its devastating impact on a married couple in London

Paperback:

9780786709359, titled "Watson's Apology" | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, August 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Relates the story of a clergyman and his wife, tracing the events of their marriage to its brutal end, in a novel based on an actual murder case in Victorian England.
9780070032552, titled "Watson's Apology" | McGraw-Hill Book Co, March 1, 1990, cover price $4.95 | also contains Costa Rica Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species | About this edition: After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745157665, titled "Watson's Apology" | Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $69.95
9780816199983, titled "Watson's Apology" | Unabridged edition (G K Hall Audio Books, February 1, 1987), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church.

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Product Description: The dramatic disappearance of the explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott & his companions in their 1910 race to reach the South Pole was seen by their contemporaries as creating heroes in a new mold. A few years later, during WW I, Scott's rival Shackleton also nearly met his death in the Antarctic, becoming in the process another hero...read more
By Beryl Bainbridge (foreword by) and Peter King (editor)

Hardcover:

9780756753160, titled "Scott's Last Journey: The Race for the Pole" | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The dramatic disappearance of the explorer Capt.

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A charged novel of Victorian sexual mores follows the adventures of surgeon George Hardy from the brothels of Liverpool to the horrific battlefields of the Crimean War. Reprint. NYT. PW.

Hardcover:

9780786705634 | Carroll & Graf Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War

Paperback:

9780786706976 | Da Capo Pr, October 14, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War

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Chronicling the fates of six English families, this chronicle of England in the twentieth century examines the circumstances of birth, class, economic opportunity, and social custom that define the lives of ordinary English people.

Hardcover:

9780786706112 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Chronicling the fates of six English families, this chronicle of England in the twentieth century examines the circumstances of birth, class, economic opportunity, and social custom that define the lives of ordinary English people.

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Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War

Paperback:

9780786216819 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1999), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754002246 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War.

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The author provides a colorful memoir and journal of one woman's life, from her early years to the present day, that describes the various events and experiences of everyday life and ranges from a stroll in the park to a visit to Madam Tussaud's Chambers of Horror. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780786705177 | Carroll & Graf Pub, August 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A selection of articles provides a journal of the author's life, from her early years to the present day, that describes the various events and experiences of everyday life and ranges from a stroll in the park to a visit to Madam Tussaud's Chambers of Horrors

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