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The Quickening Maze

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The Dukan Diet by Dr. Pierre Dukan

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Reputedly used by over 5 million French women this is more a new way of eating which enables permanent weight loss rather than a radical fad diet.
the aim is to cut the bad stuff out of your diet and eat mainly protein then by stages add vegetables- lots of them- and then other food groups until by stage four you are eating all you want and need and maintaining your weight loss.

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We Had It So Good

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A new novel from the author of The Clothes on Their Backs, The Cast Iron Shore and When I Lived in Modern Times.Linda Grant captures the life and times of a family over three generations.Linda Grant is a sharp observer of how we behave and interact with each other she is always worth reading.

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O: A Presidential Novel by Anonymous

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Inside story on running for president, the campaign, the backers the political twists and turns.The real author has been uncovered as being really close to the source so you can be sure the research is good the characterisation spot on and the storyline as close to the truth as fiction will allow.

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Alphaville by Michael Codella

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Set in New York in the late eighties this is the true story of two undercover narcotics cops who are given the task of cleaning the streeets of drug dealers and petty criminals. But these are two ambitious cops and they want to take out the top man. His name is Davy Blue Eyes, a man who is the local drug king and murderer a man the police have yet to meet.Alphaville is how they hunt him down one arrest at a time. The real deal.

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Capital by John Lanchester

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Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive, but with second homes and nannies to maintain, he's not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all, this city offers the chance of a different kind of life.

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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer

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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France, her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon, he is of urgent significance to her superiors.

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