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The Debt to Pleasure
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Tarquin (formerly Rodney) Winot, an impeccably correct English Francophile, journeys not just to his cottage in Provence, but through a forest of sensual description as he offers the story of his life through food. It is only gradually, as the novel assumes some of the qualities of a highly suspenseful thriller, that we begin to realize that ...
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Mr Phillips
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Mr. Phillips's firm has downsized, and he has lost his job. This is the secret he carries with him as, with suit and briefcase, he walks the streets of London on Monday, July 31, 1995, trying to find the courage to break it to his wife. Deliberately modeled on Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, Lanchester's novel follows Phillips on a journey through ...
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Fragrant Harbor
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This portrait of Hong Kong in the 20th century begins in 1935 when Tom Stewart leaves England to work in the hotel business there. He survives the horrors of World War II, crosses paths with a Chinese nun who plays a vital role in his life, and becomes a major figure in the fortunes of postwar Hong Kong. Lanchester's novel, thoroughly immersed in ...
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Family Romance: A Love Story
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Although his family may have been atypical, the dynamics of family life and their patterns are instantly recognizable in this memoir by acclaimed novelist Lanchester. Part detective work, part remarkable evocation of character, this is, above all, compelling storytelling.
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Fragrant Harbour
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"Fragrant Harbour" is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last 70 years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; ...
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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
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David Kidd, John Lanchester (Preface by)
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. & quot; I used to hope, & quot; he writes, & quot; that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and ...
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Family Romance: a Memoir
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The debt to pleasure : a novel
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El Puerto de Los Aromas
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John Lanchester
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El Senor Phillips
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Puerto De Los Aromas, El
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Gula
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Mr. Phillips : a novel
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John Lanchester
In this study of the famous Disney-designed town in central Florida that was intended to embody the best features of hometown America and modern technology, journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, who moved to Celebration with their family, look behind the facade--at home construction and public areas, as well as at the social life and ...
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Le Prix Du Plaisir
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Hotel Empire Hongkong
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John; Fienbork Lanchester, Matthias
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